USGenWeb Plymouth, MA - Books About Plymouth

This page is still under construction - many other books are listed on the Lookups page.

These listings are for books that are in the public domain, and of which page images or transcrptions are available at one or more sites. Following each listing you will find links to the locations where each book may be found. All of the sites listed are free of charge, but copies may also be found at subscription sites such as Ancestry.com and Heritage Quest Online (Note that access to subscription sites may be freely available at your local library).

More recent books which are not in the public domain, as well as some books in the public domain which are not yet available online, are listed on the Books page.

Within each category the books are listed in order by the year in which they were written or first published.

This is far from an exhausive list, but it includes the major reference works in each category as well as some less known works with which the webmaster is familiar. I have tried to include complete publishing information, but information for editions which I have not seen may not be definitive.

John T. Landis, Mayflower Descendants and Their Marriages for Two Generations After the Landing (Washington, DC: Bureau of Military and Civic Achievement, 1922; Reprinted Baltimore: Southern Book Co., 1956; Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1959; Baltimore: Clearfield Co., 1990).

Ruth Wilder Sherman, The Mayflower Reader: A Selection of Artcles from The Mayflower Descendant (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1978; Reprinted Baltimore: Clearfield Co., 1996).

Robert Charles Anderson, (The Pilgrim Migration (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004).

Ralph V. Wood, Jr., Compiler, Plymouth County Massachusetts Probate Index 1686-1881 (Camden, ME: Picton Press, 1988).

Leonard H. Smith Jr., Editor, Vital Records of the Town of Plymouth (Clearwater, FL: Leonard H. Smith, 1989; Reprinted Baltimore: Clearfield Co., 1992).

Lee D. van Antwerp and Ruth Wilder Sherman, Editors, Vital Records Of Plymouth, Massachusetts, To The Year 1850 (Camden, ME: Picton Press, 1993).

C. H. Simmons, Jr., Editor, Plymouth Colony Records: Volume 1, Wills and Inventories 1633-1669 (Camden, ME: Picton Press, 1996).

Barbara J. Bradford Robinson, Howard E. Robinson and Cynthia L. Robinson, Burial Hill In the 1990's (Plymouth, MA: Plymouth Public Library Corp., 2000).

David T. Konig, Editor, Plymouth County Court Records 1686-1859, 16 Volumes (Wilmington, DE: Michael Glazier, Inc., 1978-1981; CD-ROM Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2002).

Ruth W. Sherman, Robert M. Sherman and Robert S. Wakefield, An Index to Plymouth County, Massachusetts Warnings Out from the Plymouth County Court Records 1686-1859 (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2003).

Annie Arnoux Haxtun, Signers of the Mayflower Compact (New York: The Mail and Express, 1897-1899; Reprinted Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1968; Baltimore: Clearfield Co., 1998).

Audrey Drummond and Nancy J. Springer, Mayflower Passengers 1620 (Boston: Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, First Edition 1992, Second Edition 1996).