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The pioneers of Massachusetts : a descriptive list, drawn from records of the colonies, towns, and churches, and other contemporaneous documents / by Charles Henry Pope

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CONTENTS: Special directions for searchers -- Pioneers of Massachusetts -- Authorities quoted -- Abbreviations -- The pioneer towns -- Occupations, trades, etc. -- Index to other names and cross-index to pioneers -- Index to places outside the state…

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Penley family in England and America, ca. 1377-1958 : being principally an account of the ancestry and descendents of Joseph Penly of Danville, Maine (1756-1844) / by Rev. Robert Penley

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Joseph Penly (1756-1844) immigrated from England to Freeport, Maine in 1770 and served in the Revolutionary War. He married twice (the first time to a widow) and moved to Danville, Maine. Descendants (spelling the surname Penley) and relatives lived…

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Remembering Franklin County : stories from the Sandy River Valley / Luann Yetter

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CONTENTS: Pioneer vignettes -- Supply Belcher, the Handel of Maine -- The oldest country story -- The Stevens family settles upcountry -- Oddities -- Politics, war and society -- Profiles -- Nature -- Tragedy and perseverance -- Crime -- Baseball

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Reclaiming the ancestors : decolonizing a taken prehistory of the far Northeast / Frederick Matthew Wiseman

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CONTENTS: Indians and archaeologists -- Wabanaki dawn : Late Pleistocene paleogeography of Wobanakik -- The Wobanakiawik colonize the Late Pleistocene dawnland -- Red paint rising : the Wobanakiawik settle into the post-Pleistocene dawnland -- The…

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