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Amesbury Public Library
Amesbury, Massachusetts
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1600 to 2019Dates represented
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667,454Archive pages
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Discover the people, places, and stories of Amesbury, Massachusetts.
Follow a name, place, or event connected with Amesbury through the collection shared by Amesbury Public Library. Its one hundred eighty-six titles include material from 1600 to 2019.
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The collection from Amesbury Public Library includes “A Conscientious Librarian And Teacher” as well as “You Are Heir To Millions”.
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Titles in this collection
Browse one hundred eighty-six titles and 667,454 digitized pages, with material from 1600 to 2019. A partnership between Amesbury Public Library and Advantage Archives makes this collection available. Some years or items may be missing between the dates shown.
Explore the titles below for a closer look at the places, people and everyday life of earlier generations.
A Conscientious Librarian And Teacher
24 pages in 1974
A Few Particulars In Relation To Woolen Manufacturing
30 pages in 1962
A Few Thoughts Which Come To Mind In The Wake Of News Of The Death Of The Late Harold Penel Gale
12 pages in 1979
A Note Of Interest Concerning Dowsing
12 pages in 1979
A Tribute To Two Outstanding Amesbury Teachers
16 pages in 1973
Address Before The Golden Jubilee Celebration Of Reverend Denis F Lee
22 pages in 1935
Alice C Follansbee Amesbury Public Librarian
90 pages in 1970
Allens Court And Allens Corner
20 pages in 1972
Amesbury Advocate
244 pages from 1926 to 1928
Amesbury and Salisbury Villager
6,876 pages from 1883 to 1891
Amesbury As A Body Building Center
84 pages from 1923 to 1943
Amesbury As A Body Building Center Autobody
Page count not currently available dates not yet available
Amesbury Carriage History
34 pages in 1967
Amesbury Daily
1,470 pages from 1892 to 1894
Amesbury Daily News
181,266 pages from 1894 to 1962
Amesbury High School Yearbooks
26,522 pages from 1924 to 2010
Amesbury Historical Background
18 pages in 1964
Amesbury Hospital Courier
8 pages in 1925
Amesbury Localities
144 pages in 1962
Amesbury News
195,012 pages from 1886 to 2013
Amesbury Poll Taxes
9,848 pages from 1892 to 1952
Amesbury Times
458 pages from 1935 to 1936
Amesburys First Professional Artist
52 pages in 1968
Amesburys Greek Restoration House And Two Former Occupants
18 pages in 1973
Amesburys Hannah Moddy Estes
34 pages in 1968
Amesburys Painful Genesis
70 pages in 1967
Amesburys Part In The Civil War
76 pages in 1960
Amy Lowell Visits The Amesbury Whittier Home
26 pages in 1974
Ancestors Lemuel Hawley Smith
166 pages in 1974
Annual Report of the Town of Amesbury
54,446 pages from 1868 to 2012
Arnolds Expedition To Quebec
82 pages in 1971
Aubin Joshua Aubin
22 pages in 1962
Automobiles Built In Essex County Mass
136 pages in 1977
Baptist Church In 188th Year
10 pages in 1968
Bartlett Josiah Bartlett
22 pages in 1964
Building Aluminum Auto Bodies
16 pages in 1985
Cammetts Court
16 pages in 1973
Captain Henry True
176 pages in 1901
Carriage Building In Amesbury
46 pages in 1904
City Directory
72,264 pages from 1864 to 1998
Collins Lawlor And Miss Solari Prize Winners Of The Class of 1973
18 pages in 1973
Colonial Gardens The Landscape Architecture Of George Washingtons Time
172 pages in 1932
Commission Free America
56 pages in 1988
Copies Of Samuel Hoyts Historical Articles And Other Writings
24 pages in 1963
Currier Of Picture Fame Summered Here
14 pages in 1970
Daily News
1,812 pages in 2019
Davis Court
16 pages in 1973
Doctor Thomas O Dea Quoted In John Cogleys
16 pages in 1973
Early Bottling Works In Amesbury And Vicinity
16 pages in 1979
Early Development Of The Pump And History Of The Amesbury Fire
80 pages in 1980
Early Irish Families In Amesbury
54 pages in 1981
Elizabeth H Whittier And Greenleaf A Century After
112 pages in 1964
Elizabeth Whittier Club
4,754 pages from 1896 to 1901
Ellis Court
14 pages in 1973
Essex Transcript
1,870 pages from 1842 to 1847
Flanders Covered Bridges And Builders
12 pages in 1987
Flanders Willard E
14 pages in 1982
Flint Corn And Its Uses
18 pages in 1989
Forgotten Sons Of Amesbury
50 pages in 1936
Friends Meeting House
22 pages in 1963
Gardens In The Amesbury Of The Past And Present
16 pages in 1982
Genealogy And History Of Joseph Merrills Family
110 pages in 1962
George W Cate And The Founding Of The Amesbury District Court
16 pages in 1983
Greene Block
14 pages in 1987
Hales Court
48 pages in 1977
History And Excerpts From Early Records
148 pages in 1983
History Of Gray And Davis
22 pages in 1973
History Of The Amesbury And Salisbury Cotton And Woolen Mills
20 pages in 1959
History Of The Carriage Business In Amesbury And Salisbury
28 pages in 1929
History Of The Main Street Congregational Church
34 pages in 1965
History Of The Present Main Street Congregational
24 pages in 1977
Huntington Steamlined
12 pages in 1968
I S Bartlett Amesbury Native Wyoming State Historian
28 pages in 1969
Immigrant Walsh Wrote Arithmetic Book
12 pages in 1968
In Memoriam Of Sarah Louise Shaw
18 pages in 1963
J B Judkins Company
46 pages in 1901
John French Johnson
7,102 pages from 1600 to 1901
John Greenleaf Whittier The Native Spokesman Of New England
142 pages in 1931
Josiah Bartlett Loose Papers
3,564 pages from 1729 to 1762
Leader
104 pages in 1907
Leonards Lane Or Court
26 pages in 1974
Letter 1971 Oct 18 Livonia Mich To Willard Flander
14 pages in 1971
Life Of Clifton Lunt
12 pages in 1989
Life Of Elise Biron Nichols
12 pages in 1989
List of Residents
14,976 pages from 1900 to 1977
Lovesta Bailey
16 pages in 1963
Material Concerning Flood Control On The Merrimack River
224 pages in 1965
Material Concerning The Colby Family
34 pages in 1967
Merrila Notes
128 pages in 1962
Merrimac Valley Times
160 pages in 1916
Merrimar Valley Echo
280 pages from 1915 to 1916
Miller A Memoir
12 pages in 1980
Morning Courier
480 pages from 1835 to 1838
Morrill Houses In Amesbury And Salisbury
52 pages in 1986
Mrs Choates House Warming
18 pages in 1979
Music In Amesbury
26 pages in 1949
Northeast National Bank The First 150 Years
76 pages in 1901
Northern Boundary Of Essex County
20 pages in 1940
Notes From Miss Amy Morrills
24 pages in 1983
Our Neighbors
26 pages in 1942
Paine Wingate
12 pages in 1964
Pettingell Amesbury
142 pages from 1897 to 1901
Pettingell Named Judge At 36 Years
12 pages in 1968
Pioneer Irish Catholics Of Amesbury And Salisbury Massachusetts
142 pages in 1969
Pleasant Valley
58 pages in 1963
Pond Hills
44 pages in 1962
Pond Hills Memories
214 pages in 1962
President Munroe Visited Mill No 6 In 1817
16 pages in 1963
Privateersmen Of Two Wars
60 pages in 1896
Qakers Society Of Friends In Amesbury
54 pages in 1963
Recollections Of Everett Titcomb
136 pages in 1985
Recollections Of My Childhood
54 pages in 1989
Redford Amesbury 1654 1754
168 pages in 1963
Representative Town Clerks Selectmen
42 pages in 1962
River Side Press
206 pages from 1877 to 1882
Sammy Gill Of Salisbury Mass
32 pages in 1964
Sarah Osgood Bagley Magnetic Healer
54 pages in 1968
Saw And Grist Mills Amesbury And Salisbury
16 pages in 1908
Silk From Ancient China To North America And New England
22 pages in 1979
Sketch Of My Life
100 pages in 1968
Some Old Amesbury Names Places And Personalities
104 pages in 1966
Susanna Martin And The Essex County Quarterly Courts
100 pages in 1965
The Amesbury Salisbury Strike And The Response To Industrialism
50 pages in 1974
The Amesbury Scene
36 pages in 1979
The Birthplace Of Josiah Bartlett
182 pages in 1976
The Boundary Line Between Massachusetts And New Hampshire
78 pages in 1944
The Captain Follansbee Relica
24 pages in 1974
The Carriage Industry In Amesbury
70 pages in 1960
The Clarks Of Market Street
118 pages in 1969
The Ezra Morrill House
90 pages in 1901
The Follansbee Tyler Legend
52 pages in 1970
The Hills Of Amesbury
18 pages in 1962
The History Of Medicine And Pharmacy Of Amesbury
76 pages in 1963
The History Of Public Education In The Town Of Amesbury
40 pages in 1970
The History Of The Second District Court Of Essex County
26 pages in 1901
The Legacy Of Everett Titcomb And The Choral And Organ Music Of Everett Titcomb
34 pages in 1987
The Life Of Grace Johnson Leslie
14 pages in 1989
The Merrimac River Flood
38 pages in 1936
The Old Garrison House
20 pages in 1963
The Pickards Of Pickard Street Amesbury Mass
86 pages in 1973
The Point Shore
20 pages in 1930
The Rise And Fall Of The Carriage Industry In Amesbury MA
20 pages in 1901
The Robbery Of Shamhill
32 pages in 1963
The Salisbury Amesbury Branch Of The Boston And Maine Railroad
54 pages in 1971
The Second Immigration Of Native English Families To The Twin Villages Of Amesbury And Salisbury Mills
38 pages in 1963
The Settlement Of Amesbury
18 pages in 1962
The Sociologist As Catholic
14 pages in 1975
The Stranger in Lowell
314 pages in 1901
The Witch Of Amesbury By A Descendant
50 pages in 1983
Thirteen Generations Ancestors And Descendants Of Lemuel Hawley Smith And Mary Elizabeth Colby
26 pages in 1964
Thomas Whittier
28 pages in 1963
Three Eighteenth Century Amesbury Harvard Alumni
22 pages in 1971
Town Meeting Record
4,820 pages from 1832 to 1917
Town Records
3,812 pages in 1642
Town Records Merrill Family
1,068 pages in 1961
Town Work Valuation Lists
19,784 pages from 1893 to 1918
Transcript
248 pages in 1840
Two Amesbury Bachelors Frank Cabanagh And Bill Bagley
38 pages in 1970
Two Outstanding Amesbury Born Artists
38 pages in 1969
Unitarianism As I See It A Sermon
26 pages in 1974
Valuation Lists
23,886 pages from 1825 to 1892
Various Papers Relating To The Life Of Paul Moody
38 pages in 1901
Vietor Salisbury Point
36 pages in 1963
Village Transcript
890 pages from 1840 to 1842
Villager
14,098 pages from 1849 to 1883
Vital Statistics and Town Records
3,924 pages in 1738
Walter Barefooter
80 pages in 1983
Weekly News
3,452 pages from 1881 to 1886
Westerly Approach To Amesburys Market Square
20 pages in 1971
Where Craftsmanship Is A Heritage
22 pages in 1986
Whitcher Hill
16 pages in 1963
Whittier And Abram Morrison
46 pages in 1964
Whittier And Amesbury Monthly Meeting Of Friends
96 pages in 1968
Whittier And Eli And Sybil Jonbes
24 pages in 1963
Whittier And Harriet Livermore
30 pages in 1964
Whittier And Harriet Nelson Greeley
22 pages in 1963
Whittier And Mary Esther Carter
24 pages in 1964
Whittier And Sophronia Moody
28 pages in 1964
Whittier And The Cartlands Of Les Weare
26 pages in 1963
Whittier And The Goves Of Hampton Falls
24 pages in 1963
Whittier And The Goves Of Seabrook
24 pages in 1964
Whittier And William Henry Harrison Dewhurst
42 pages in 1965
Why I Believe The Auto Body Industry Left The Town Of Amesbury
28 pages in 1942
Why Massachusetts Was Settled
18 pages in 1901
William Osgood And Amesburys Oldest House
56 pages in 1966
You Are Heir To Millions
38 pages in 1975
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