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Try these links to learn more about English family history:

Local Boston Organizations

  • New England Historic Genealogical Society
  • Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants
    100 Boylston St. Suite #750
    Boston MA 02116

Research Help

Further Reading

  • Allen, Harry C. Conflict and Concord: The Anglo-American Relationship since 1783. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1959.

  • Bailyn, Bernard et al., eds. The Great Republic. 4th Edition. Boston: DC Heath, 1992.

  • Berthoff, Rowland T. British Immigrants in Industrial America, 1790-1950. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1953.

  • Dearborn, David Curtis. "The Mill English." The Essex Genealogist 16 (1996): 3-13.

  • -----. "Searching for the Mill English." NEXUS 8 (1991): 20-23.

  • Erickson, Charlotte. American Industry and the European Immigrant, 1860-1885. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1957.

  • Fischer, David Hackett. Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.

  • Handlin, Oscar. Boston's Immigrants. Orig. 1941. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1991.

  • Hill, Douglas. The English in New England. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1975.

  • Holbrook, Stewart H. Yankee Exodus. New York: MacMillan, 1950.

  • Johnson, Stanley C. A History of Emigration from the United Kingdom to North America, 1762-1912. London: G. Routledge and Sons, 1913.

  • Knights, Peter R. The Plain People of Boston, 1830-1860: A Study in City Growth. New York: Oxford University Press, 1971.

  • Shepperson, Wilbur S. British Emigration to North America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1957.

  • Solomon, Barbara Miller. Ancestors and Immigrants: A Changing New England Tradition. Orig. 1956. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1989.

  • Thernstrom, Stephan. The Other Bostonians: Poverty and Progress in the American Metropolis, 1880-1970. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1973.

  • -----, ed. Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1980. See "English" and "Yankee."

 
   

 

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