NEW ENGLAND: GENEALOGICAL DICTIONARY OF MAINE AND NEW HAMPSHIRE. (NOYES, LIBBY AND DAVIS) CD-WIN/MACAuthor: Sybil Noyes Charles T. Libby,
and Walter G. Davis
Pub. Date: 1928-1939
This compilation by three leading authorities
treats all immigrants to northern New England prior to 1700, and their
descendants to the third generation. By analyzing all available seventeenth
century documents, the authors have made this the source of first resort for
early Maine and New Hampshire.
The authors deliberately modelled their work on James Savage's Genealogical
Dictionary of New England, but with some augmentations. First, they extended
the coverage seven years, to all those who had arrived by 1699. Second, they
tried to "give the marriages and deaths of the third generation, instead of
only the births." As a result, in their own estimation they have created
"a 'Savage' for northern New England."
Because of the frequent conflicts with the Native population during the
seventeenth century, many of these families had to take refuge from time to time
in various towns in southern New England, and so there are many connections made
to families in those towns, especially in Massachusetts Bay. A common feature of
these Indian raids was that some of the European settlers were taken into
captivity and lived among the Indians or the French, and many of these captives
are treated here as well.
An unusual and important feature of this genealogical dictionary is the
collection of "lists" at the front of the book. Organized by Charles
Thornton Libby, this section comprises hundreds of tax lists, grants of land,
merchants' accounts, coroner's juries and all manner of other documents which
contain a high density of names of early settlers of Maine and New Hampshire,
and even of those who were just passing through. Most sketches presented in this
dictionary contain multiple cross-references to these lists, thus guiding the
researcher to the underlying original sources.
Summary by Robert Charles Anderson, FASG
for Archive CD Books USA
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