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• 17th c. Colonial New England, with Special Emphasis on the Salem Witchcraft Trials of 1692

• 1872 Chronicle Of Events: November, 1870 - November, 1871

  Chronicle of events from the 1872 Boston Almanac and Directory.
  [The original link is broken. This link points to an archived copy on the Wayback Machine]

• A Walking Tour of Plimoth Plantation

• Civilian Conservation Corps Legacy

  • CCC Camp Lists

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• GenDisasters.com - Events That Touched Our Ancestor's Lives - Massachusetts

  GenDisasters.com, chronicles the events that touched our ancestors' lives - train wrecks, fires, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, storms, mining explosions, ship wrecks, drownings, and accidents. Transcribed newspaper accounts, excerpts from historical books and photographs detail hundreds of life's tragedies that our ancestors' endured, from the 1800s to the 1950s. New material is being transcribed and added daily. Searchable. [The original link is gone. This link points to an archived copy on the Wayback Machine]

• Massachusetts Historical Sites & Societies

• Massachusetts History Timeline

• Mayflower & Early Families

• Plimoth-on-Web

• Salem Witch Trials Chronology

• Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive and Transcription Project

  Includes transcribed and scanned court records, maps, and more.

• Shays' Rebellion

  A rebellion of farmers in Massachusetts.

• The Great Boston Molasses Tragedy

• The Great Molasses Flood of 1919

• The Pilgrims and Plymouth Colony: 1620

  A educational study guide for instruction on the Mayflower, Pilgrims, Plymouth Colony, Native Americans and much more. Contains original artwork. Written by Duane A. Cline, former Education Chairman of the General Society of Mayflower Descendants.

• The Pilgrims in Leiden

  A brief history of the Pilgrims' sojourn in Leiden with several scanned images, maps & documents.

• The Plymouth Colony Archive Project at the University of Virginia

  Archives and Analysis of Plymouth Colony, 1620-1691.

• The Salem Witch Trials

  Information about those tried and/or killed in the Salem Witch trials of 1692. This site has family trees, and the reasons for this obsession with evil.

• Winthrop's journal : 'History of New England,' 1630-1649, Vol. I

  An ebook from Internet Archive.

• Winthrop's journal : 'History of New England,' 1630-1649, Vol. II

  An ebook from Internet Archive.