The source abbreviations used in the database often refer to the body of work from an author or authors, so some entries list multiple works.   The comments section for a cemetery or gravestone entry sometimes indicates which of those several works is referred to for that entry.   In parentheses after some titles you will publication information for books, or call letters for books and manuscripts at NEHGS or other repositories.

     Note that this list of sources is still a work in progress.   I am compiling it while I am revising the cemetery descriptions.   Until that process has been completed this list will be incomplete, as shown by some entries whose abbreviations include question marks.

ADH
Arthur D. Hodge, Edgar H. Reed’s Gravestone Inscriptions (1905). Manuscript in the R. Stanton Avery Special Collections Department, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston.

AHC
Attleboro Historical Commission (Report from 1971).

AHS
Attleboro Historical Society.

B&W
Clara Blackinton and Elizabeth Wilmarsh, Attleboro, Mass. Epitaphs (1903; NEHGS MS70/ATT/2). Manuscript in the R. Stanton Avery Special Collections Department, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston.

BEN
Charles and Martha Benns, RI Gravestones (undated, but 1930s), manuscript at East Greenwich, Rhode Island, public library.

CTC
C. T. Crane, Inscriptions from the Graveyard at the Fox Cemetery in Berkeley, Mass., Nearly Two Miles from "Centre." (NEHGS Mss A 317). Manuscript in the R. Stanton Avery Special Collections Department, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston. Includes transcriptions from Fox and Berkley Common Cemeteries.

CMT
Charles M. Thatcher, Old Cemeteries of Southeastern Massachusetts (Middleborough, MA: Middleborough Public Library, 1995). Contains over 16,000 transcriptions of gravestones up to the mid-1800s, from 214 cemeteries located in 28 Plymouth and Bristol County towns. Although this is still a useful resource, many transcription errors have been discovered, so use Thatcher with care and check it against the actual gravestones or other transcriptions.

DJ
David Jillson, Attleboro, Mass., Cumberland, RI, and Rehoboth, Mass. Births, Marriages, and Deaths (1889; NEHGS SL/ATT/1).

DR
Daniel Ricketson, The History of New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts: Including ... Westport, Dartmouth and Fairhaven ... (New Bedford, MA: The Author, 1858).

EHR
Edgar Hodges Reed, Inscriptions from the Burying-Grounds in Ancient Taunton (Manuscript at Old Colony Historical Society, Taunton, some parts published in Hurd's History of Bristol County).

FH
Franklyn Howland, A History of the Town of Acushnet, Bristol County, State of Massachusetts (New Bedford, MA: The Author, 1907).

GET
Gail E. Terry, Berkley, Massachusetts Cemetery Inscriptions (Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1997).

GT
George H. Tilton, A History of Rehoboth Massachusetts (Boston: The Author, 1918). Includes some transcriptions as well as histories and descriptions of graveyards.

HBW
Leonard Bolles Ellis, History of New Bedford and Its Vicinity 1602-1892 (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., 1892).

IBP
Ira Peck.

JCR
Mrs. J. Clifford Ross and Mrs. Albert B. Joy, Memorandum of Graves. Center Street Near the End of Short Street, and Short Street Opposite Lyman Wheelock Road (NEHGS MS/70/EAS/340). 1956 Typescript in the R. Stanton Avery Special Collections Department, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston. Includes transcriptions from Central Cemetery and Oliver Howard Cemetery, Easton.

Mrs. J. Clifford Ross, Private Cemetery Near the Taunton River in Taunton (NEHGS Mss A 2348). Typescript in the R. Stanton Avery Special Collections Department, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston.

JD
John Daggett, A Sketch of the History of Attleborough from Its Settlement to the Division (Boston: Samuel Usher, 1894).

MPC
Marion Pearce Carter, Cemetery Records: Attleboro - Rehoboth, Mass. Includes:

Vol. I: Second Congregational Church Records of Attleboro (In 1924 this was edited by Charles Shepard II, as Membership and Vital Records of the Second Congregational Church of Attleboro, Massachusetts, Shepard Genealogical Series, Number 16 (NEHGS F74/A89/A85/1924).

Vol. II: North Swansea Cemetery Records (NEHGS Mss/A/890). Manuscript in the R. Stanton Avery Special Collections Department, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston.

Vol. III: Tomb Stone Records of Old Kirk Cemetery, Attleboro, Massachusetts (1928; NEHGS F74/A89/C33/1928; also at Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence, and at Kirk Cemetery Association, Attleboro).

Vol. IV: Burial Hill and Conant Burying Ground - alias Briggs Corner Cemetery - alias Oak Knoll Cemetery (1928; NEHGS Mss A 313; typescript at Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence). Manuscript in the R. Stanton Avery Special Collections Department, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston.

Vol. V: Records of Six Cemeteries in Attleboro, Mass. (1928; NEHGS F74/A89/C3/1928; also at Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence). Includes Dodgeville (Hillside) Cemetery (Attleboro), Old Hatch Grave Yard (North Attleborough), Old Peck Grave Yard (Attleboro, including burials removed to Mt. Hope in North Attleborough), Burial Yard at Attleboro Falls (North Attleborough), (Dodge) Island Cemetery (Attleboro), and Follett Family Burying Ground and Thayer Family Grave Yard (Attleboro).

Vol. VI (?): Baptisms, Marriages, Deaths, Admitted to Communion, Old Town Church, Attleboro: First Church, 1740-1856 (With Elizabeth Josephine Wilmarth) (1928; NEHGS F74/A89/A83/1928).

Vol. VII: Inscriptions on the Grave Stones in Cemetery at South Attleboro, Massachusetts (1930 typescript at Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence). Transcriptions from Newell Cemetery, Attleboro.

Frank Calef and Marion Pearce Carter manuscript (1932 and 1936) at the Attleboro Public Library.

MR
Author unknown, Acushnet Cemetery Memorial: Record of the Dead of Families of the Early Settlers Interred in the Old Colonial Burying Ground, Established in the Reign of Queen Ann in the Old Township of Dartmouth, now Acushnet, Massachusetts (New York: 1881; NEHGS F/74/A22/A2).

OC?
Author unknown, undated, but probably 1949-1958, manuscript at Old Colony Historical Society, Taunton (VC331C).

SS
Susan Salisbury

RST
Robert Sheldon Trim, Rehoboth Gravestone Records, 1950-1962 (Manuscript in Trim Room at Blanding Library, Rehoboth).

TK
Thomas Keegan - transcriptions from a number of Easton cemeteries, posted on the USGenWeb Easton site.

WLC
William L. Chaffin, Records of Deaths in Easton, Mass., ca. 1713-1886 (NEHGS Mss 864). Manuscript in the R. Stanton Avery Special Collections Department, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston. Includes handwritten transcriptions of gravestone inscriptions from several Easton cemeteries.

WPA
Author unknown, Berkley Cemetery Inscriptions (Works Project Authority, at Old Colony Historical Society, Taunton).

WS
Waldo C. Sprague, Inscriptions, Old Church St. Cemetery, Easton, Mass. (NEHGS MS 70 EAS 312). Manuscript in the R. Stanton Avery Special Collections Department, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston. Contains handwritten 1948 transcriptions of gravestone inscriptions from the town's oldest cemetery, which is divided by Church St. into two sections generally known as "Old Burying Ground" (east side of road) and "Cynthia Drake Cemetery" (west side of road).

Waldo C. Sprague, Cemetery North of the Common at Berkeley, Mass. (1955; NEHGS Mss A 320). Manuscript in the R. Stanton Avery Special Collections Department, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston.

Waldo C. Sprague, Caswell and Clark Cemetery, Berkeley, Mass. (1957; NEHGS Mss A 322). Manuscript in the R. Stanton Avery Special Collections Department, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston.

Waldo C. Sprague, Dean Cemetery, Assonet Neck, Berkeley, Mass. (1956; NEHGS Mss A 321). Manuscript in the R. Stanton Avery Special Collections Department, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston.

Waldo C. Sprague, Webster Cemetery, Algerine Road, Berkeley, Mass. (1957; NEHGS Mss A 340). Manuscript in the R. Stanton Avery Special Collections Department, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston.

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Mrs. Franklyn Howland, From Long Plain Cemetery Before 1850 (New Bedford, MA: 1907; NEHGS MS NEW 194). manuscript in the R. Stanton Avery Special Collections Department, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston. Transcriptions from Long Plain Cemetery, Attleboro.

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Daughters of the American Revolution, Revolutionary Soldiers Buried in New Bedford (1944; NEHGS MS NEW 249). Manuscript in the R. Stanton Avery Special Collections Department, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston.

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Author unknown, Inscriptions Copied from Tombstones in the Old Burial Ground in So. Attleboro, Mass. (NEHGS SL/SOU/1).

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Susan Galligan, Voices of the Old Kirk Yard, Attleboro's Epitaphs.