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This collection comprises 332 digitized books of state and local histories, available to view in PDF format. These histories come from Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Washington D.C., West Virginia, and Wisconsin.

You can narrow your search by publication year, title, county, and state. Additionally, you can search by keywords and page number.

These resources can help flush out your understanding of where your ancestor lived and what life was like during that time. Location has always played an integral role in an individual’s quality of life and the opportunities available. Learning more about the specific towns and counties your family came from can help explain certain aspects of their lives, such as why they were in certain professions. You may also come across a biographical account of an individual who was important to the founding or growth of a place of significance to your family; the individual could perhaps be your ancestor.

Several volumes include records and histories from the 1700s and may provide details of public records. Some local church congregation records have likewise been preserved in this collection including Register of Baptisms, Births, Marriages, etc. in the Dutch Reformed Church, Stone House Plains [now Bloomfield], New Jersey 1801 and Records of the Lutheran Trinity Church of Stone Arabia in the Town of Palatine, Montgomery County, N.Y.

If you are interested in military history or have an ancestor who served, you may find the following titles of interest:

• History of the 27th Regiment N.Y. Vols.
• Muster Rolls of the Soldiers of the War of 1812: Detached from the Militia of North Carolina in 1812 and 1814
• Record of Pennsylvania Volunteers in the Spanish-American War, 1898
• Record of the Massachusetts Volunteers, 1861-1865
• Records of Officers and Men of New Jersey in Wars 1791-1815
• Records of Soldiers and Officers in the Military Service, Brant, N.Y., 1865
• Records of the Services of Illinois Soldiers in The Black Hawk War 1831-1832 and in The Mexican War 1846-48
• Register of Commissioned Officers and Privates of the New Jersey Volunteers
• Register of Commissioned Officers of the New Jersey Volunteers
• Register of the Members of the “Artillery Corps, Washington Grays” of the City of Philadelphia who Served in the War of the Rebellion, Volumes 1-2
• Revised Register of the Soldiers and Sailors of New Hampshire in the War of Rebellion, 1861-1865
• Revolutionary Pension Declarations, Stafford County, [New Hampshire] 1820-1832
• Rhode Island Privateers in King George’s War 1739-1748
• Rhode’s Berks County Grange Directory: List of Officers and Members
• Rockaway Records of Morris County, N.J., Families: Cemetery Records, Church Records, Military

Records, Local History, Genealogies of Old Families

• Roster of Nebraska Volunteers From 1861 to 1869
• Roster of North Carolina Troops in the War Between the States
• Roster of North Carolina Volunteers in the Spanish American War, 1898-1899
• Roster of Ohio Soldiers in the War of 1812, Volumes 1-3
• Roster of Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines of the War of 1812, The Mexican War, and the War of the Rebellion Residing in Nebraska
• Roster of Survivors of the Seventh Michigan Cavalry and Muster out Rolls of the Regiment, Volumes 1-2
• Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865
• The Official Roster of the Soldiers of the American Revolution Buried in the State of Ohio, Volumes 1-2
• The Roll of Honor of the Seventeenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, or, One Hundred and Sixty-Second of the Line, Pennsylvania Volunteers

There are 332 books included in this collection. Some titles are split out into individual volumes while others include several volumes in one.

• A Biographical Record of Chemung County, New York
• A Chronological Register of Boscawen in the County of Merrimack and State of New-Hampshire
• A Collection of Brief Biographical and Other Sketches Relating to the Early History of Cambria County, Pennsylvania
• A Complete and Connected History of Schenectady
• A Contribution to the History of Lunenburg County and Southside Virginia
• A History of Colonial Virginia
• A History of Coventry, Orleans County, Vermont
• A History of Herkimer County [New York]
• A History of Monmouth and Ocean Counties [New Jersey]
• A History of Orange County, Virginia from its Formation to the End of Reconstruction (1734-1870)
• A History of Shenandoah County, Virginia
• A History of St. Lawrence and Franklin County, New York
• A History of the Valley and County of Chemung [New York]
• A List of Rhode Island Soldiers and Sailors in King George’s War 1740-1748
• A Narrative History of Remsen, New York: Including Parts of Adjoining Townships of Steuben and Trenton, 1789-1898
• A Real History of Newark [New Jersey] and Notable Newarkers
• A Record of the Inscriptions in the Old Town Burying Ground of Newburgh, N.Y.
• A Series of Authentic Biographical Sketches of the Representative Men of Vermont and Sons of Vermont in Other States
• A Volume of Records Relating to the Early History of Boston [Massachusetts]
• A Volume Relating to the Early History Boston [Massachusetts]: Containing the Aspinwall Notarial Records from 1644 to 1651, Volumes 1-13
• Allegany County and Its People: A Centennial Memorial History of Allegany County, New York
• An Account of Some of the Old Homesteads and Families of King William County, Virginia
• An Illustrated History of Umatilla County [Oregon]
• Annals of Oxford, New York: With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Early Pioneers, Volumes 1-2
• Biographical History of Westchester County, New York
• Biographical Sketch of the residents of that part of Dedham [Massachusetts]
• Biographical Sketches of the Leading Citizens of Broome County, New York
• Biographical Sketches of the Leading Citizens of Delaware County, New York
• Chronicles of Monroe in the Olden Time: Town and Village, Orange County, New York
• Collections of the Illinois State Historical Library, Volume I, Newspapers and Periodicals of Illinois 1814-1879
• Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania: Genealogical and Personal Memoirs
• Commemorative Biographical Record of Northeastern Pennsylvania Including the Counties of Susquehanna, Wayne Pike and Monroe, Volume 1-2
• Dedication of the Soldiers’ Monument in Amherst, NH
• Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey, Volume 21
• Dr. Robert Finleys [sic] Marriages from June 1795 to 1817 [New Jersey]
• Early History of the Bellows Family and the Village of Walpole, New Hampshire
• Early History of Thurston County, Washington
• Early History of West Philadelphia and Its Environs [Pennsylvania]
• Early Settlement of Essex County [New Jersey]
• Early Settlement of Otsego County: Notices and Anecdotes of Public Men
• Embracing the History of Woodbridge, Piscataway, Metuchen and Contiguous Places [New Jersey]
• Gazetteer and Biographical Record of Genesee County, N.Y., 1788-1890
• Gazetteer and Business Directory of Broome and Tioga Counties, N.Y. for 1872-3
• Gazetteer and Business Directory of Oneida County, N.Y. for 1869
• Gazetteer of the County of Washington, N.Y.: Comprising a Correct Statistical and Miscellaneous History of the County and Several Towns
• Genealogical and Memorial History of the State of NJ
• Giving An Account of Ye First Settlement: Progress of the Baptists at Croswicks [sic] or Upper Freehold [New Jersey]
• Gopsill’s Westchester County Directory [New York]
• Greensboro [North Carolina], 1808-1904. Facts, Figures, Traditions and Reminiscences, Volumes 1-2
• Historical Gazetteer of Tioga County, New York 1785-1888
• History and Directory of Warren County. NJ
• History of Antrim, NH
• History of Armstrong Country, Pennsylvania
• History of Ashburnham, Massachusetts
• History of Augusta County, Virginia
• History of Bergen County New Jersey
• History of Berlin, Connecticut
• History of Cattaraugus County, New York: With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers
• History of Chautauqua County, New York
• History of Delaware County, Iowa
• History of Edgecombe County, North Carolina, Volumes 1-2
• History of Erie County, Pennsylvania, Volumes 1-2
• History of Guildhall, Vermont
• History of Herkimer County, NY, Illustrated with Portraits of Many of Its Citizens
• History of Hudson, NH: Formerly a Part of Dunstable, MA, 1673-1733, Nottingham, MA, 1733-1741, District of Nottingham, 1741-1746, Nottingham West, NH, 1746-1830, Hudson, NH, 1830-1912
• History of Iowa County, Wisconsin
• History of Jefferson County, Illinois
• History of Lower Scioto Valley, Ohio
• History of Marshall County [West Virginia]: From Forest to Field
• History of Newport County, Rhode Island, from the Year 1638 to the Year 1887
• History of Northampton County (Pennsylvania) and the Grand Valley of the Lehigh
• History of Northampton County, Pennsylvania
• History of Oneida County, New York: From 1700 to the Present Time
• History of Onondaga, New York: With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers
• History of Ontario County, New York: With Illustrations and Family Sketches of Some of the Prominent Men and Families
• History of Perry County, Ohio
• History of Putnam County, New York: With Biographical Sketches of Its Prominent Men
• History of Rockingham and Strafford Counties, NH
• History of Rush County, Indiana
• History of St. Lawrence Co., New York: Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers
• History of Sussex and Warren Counties, NJ
• History of Tennessee
• History of the 27th Regiment N.Y. Vols.
• History of the Town of Livermore, Androscoggin County, Maine
• History of the Town of Newburgh
• History of the Town of Rindge, New Hampshire
• History of the Town of Westford, in the County of Middlesex, Massachusetts, 1659-1883
• History of Turner, Maine
• History of Vernon County, Wisconsin
• History of Weymouth, Massachusetts
• Huntingtown Town Records Including Babylon, Long Island, N.Y., 1653-1775
• Index of Wills of Sullivan County, NY
• Lake County Indiana, from 1834 to 1872
• Lancaster County Indians Annals of the Susquehannocks and Other Indian Tribes of the Susquehanna Territory from about the Year 1500 to 1763
• LaSalle in the Valley of the St. Joseph [Illinois]
• Manchester Then and Now
• Marriage Notices in the South Carolina Gazette and Its Successors (1732-1801)
• Massachusetts, Plymouth, Town Records, 1636-1705
• Memoranda in Regard to Several Hundred Emigrants to Virginia During the Colonial Period
• Minutes of the Court of Fort Orange and Beverwyck 1652-1660 [New York]
• Montauk
• Mortuary Records with Genealogical Notes of the Town of Spafford, Onondaga, New York
• Muster Rolls of the Soldiers of the War of 1812: Detached from the Militia of North Carolina in 1812 and 1814
• Names of Persons for Whom Marriage Licenses were Issued by the Secretary of the Province of New York, Previous to 1784
• Nantucket [Massachusetts] A History
• Nelson’s Biographical Dictionary and Historical Reference Book of Erie County, PA
• New Bedford [Massachusetts] of the Past
• New Bedford Massachusetts: Its History, Industries, Institutions, and Attractions
• New Jersey, Marriages 1665-1800
• New Jersey, Wills, 1670-1817
• New Rochelle, Her Part in the Great War
• New Rochelle, New York Deaths 1853-1881
• New York City and Vicinity During the War of 1812-15
• New York City During the American Revolution
• New York in the Revolution as a Colony and State
• New York in the Spanish-American War, 1898
• Newton County [Indiana]
• North and South Carolina Marriage Records
• North Carolina Wills and Inventories, Volumes 1-2
• Notable Men of Tennessee: From 1833 to 1875
• Old Churches of Orange County, New York
• Old Marblehead [Massachusetts] Sea Captains and the ships in which they sailed
• Old Rutland: Side Lights on Her Honorable and Notable Story During One Hundred and Sixty Years, A.D. 1761-A.D. 1922, Volumes 1-2
• One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Settlement of Boscawen and Webster, Merrimack Co., N.H., August 16, 1883. Also Births Recorded on the Town Records from 1733 to 1850
• Onondaga’s Centennial: Gleanings of a Century
• Oregon, Volunteers in the Spanish War and Philippine Insurrection, 1903
• Our County and Its People: A Descriptive Work on Jefferson County, New York
• Our County and Its People: A Memorial Record of St. Lawrence County, New York
• Past and Present of Syracuse and Onondaga County, New York: From Prehistoric Times to the Beginning of 1908
• Pennsylvania Archives Series, Volumes 4-10
• Pioneer History of Coos and Curry Counties, Oregon
• Pioneer History of Custer County [Nebraska]
• Pioneer History of Huron County Michigan
• Pioneer History of Medina County [Ohio]
• Pioneer History of Wise County [Texas]
• Pioneers of Old Hopewell [New Jersey] with Sketches of Her Revolutionary Heroes
• Plymouth [Massachusetts] Church Records, 1620-1859
• Plymouth Church Records (Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts)
• Plymouth Meeting, Its Establishment, and the Settlement of the Township
• Political Handbook of Berks County. Pennsylvania, 1752-1883
• Polk County Pioneer Sketches
• Portrait and Biographical Album of De Witt and Piatt Counties, Illinois
• Portrait and Biographical Album of DeKalb County, Illinois
• Portrait and Biographical Album of Gratiot County, Michigan
• Portrait and Biographical Album of Hillsdale County, Michigan
• Portrait and Biographical Album of Huron County, Michigan
• Portrait and Biographical Album of Ingham and Livingston Counties, Michigan
• Portrait and Biographical Album of Isabella County, Michigan
• Portraits and Biographical Record of Portland and Vicinity, Oregon
• Portrait and Biographical Record of Seneca and Schuyler Counties, New York
• Portrait Biographical Album of Fulton County, Illinois
• Portraits and Biographies of the Governors of Michigan and of the Presidents of the United States
• Proctor: The Story of a Marble Town [Vermont]
• Quincy and Adams County [Illinois] History and Representative Men
• Ramsay’s History of South Carolina, Volumes 1-2
• Reading and Berks County, Pennsylvania, a History
• Recollections of the Early Settlement of Wabash Valley [Indiana]
• Record of Bridgeville Circuit, Which Includes Glen Wild, Rockhill and Bridgeville, N.Y.
• Record of Pennsylvania Volunteers in the Spanish-American War, 1898
• Record of Real Estate Owned by the City of New York
• Record of the Massachusetts Volunteers, 1861-1865
• Records of Christ Church (Episcopal) at Ballston Spa, New York 1793-1915
• Records of Consistory of the Union Tabernacle Reformed Church, Unionville, Sullivan County, N.Y.
• Records of Officers and Men of New Jersey in Wars 1791-1815
• Records of Soldiers and Officers in the Military Service, Brant, N.Y., 1865
• Records of the “Hill” Lutheran Church in Derry Township, Dauphin County, PA, Volumes 1-2
• Records of the Associated Reformed Church of Mongaup Valley, Sullivan County, New York
• Records of the Dutch Reformed Saint John’s Church in the Town of St. Johnsville, Montgomery County, N.Y.
• Records of the East Hampton, Long Island, Suffolk Co., N.Y.
• Records of the First Presbyterian Church Cranbury, N.J. 1744-1891
• Records of the First Presbyterian Church Lake Huntington, Sullivan County, N.Y.
• Records of the First Reformed Church at Pompton Plains New Jersey
• Records of the Free Methodist Church Ferndale, Sullivan County, N.Y.
• Records of the Lutheran Trinity Church of Stone Arabia in the Town of Palatine, Montgomery County, N.Y.
• Records of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Monticello, Sullivan County, New York
• Records of the Methodist Episcopal Church Cochecton, Sullivan County, N.Y.
• Records of the Methodist Episcopal Church Grahamsville, Sullivan County, N.Y.
• Records of the Presbyterian Church Monticello, Sullivan County, New York
• Records of the Methodist Episcopal Church Rock Hill, Sullivan County, N.Y.
• Records of the Methodist Episcopal Church Sandburgh, Sullivan County, N.Y.
• Records of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Swan Lake Sullivan County, N.Y.; White Sulphur Springs, Sullivan County, N.Y.; Harris, Sullivan County, N.Y.
• Records of the Office of the County Clerk at Jamaica, Long Island, New York: 1680-1781
• Records of the Reformed Dutch Church of Stone Arabia in the Town of Palatine, Montgomery County, N.Y.
• Records of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church at the Owasco Outlet in the Town of Fleming, Cayuga County, N.Y.
• Records of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Caughnawaga, Now the Reformed Church of Fonda, in the Village of Fonda, Montgomery County, N.Y.
• Records of the Services of Illinois Soldiers in The Black Hawk War 1831-1832 and in The Mexican War 1846-48
• Records of the Town of Braintree [Massachusetts], 1640 to 1793
• Records of the Town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County [New York]
• Records of the Town of New Rochelle, 1699-1928
• Records of the Town of Smithtown, Long Island, N.Y.
• Records of the Township of Paterson, New Jersey, 1831-1851
• Records of the White Lake Presbyterian Church of Bethel, Sullivan County, New York
• Reformed Dutch Church Records of Pompton Plains, [New York] with Records of Montville
• Reformed Dutch Church, Clarkstown, Rockland County, New York
• Register of Baptisms, Births, Marriages, Membership of the Dutch Reformed Church at Second River [now Belleville], New Jersey, 1794-1848
• Register of Baptisms, Births, Marriages, Membership, etc. in the Dutch Reformed Church, Stone House Plains [now Bloomfield], New Jersey 1801
• Register of Baptisms, Marriages, Communicants, & Funerals Begun by Henry Barclay at Fort Hunter, January 26th, 1734/5
• Register of Commissioned Officers and Privates of the New Jersey Volunteers
• Register of Commissioned Officers of the New Jersey Volunteers
• Register of Families Settled at the Town of Medford, Mass.
• Register of the Members of the “Artillery Corps, Washington Grays” of the City of Philadelphia who Served in the War of the Rebellion, Volumes 1-2
• Relics of Ye Olden Days in Salem County, New Jersey
• Reminiscences of Candia [New Hampshire]
• Reminiscences of Randolph County, [North Carolina]
• Reminiscences of the District of Columbia
• Reminiscences of the Past Sixty Years [North Carolina; South Carolina]
• Reminiscences of Worcester [Massachusetts]
• Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court in the State of Vermont, Volume 24
• Representative Men and Old Families of Southeastern Massachusetts
• Reunion Celebration Together with an Historical Sketch of Peru, Bennington County, Vermont
• Revised History of Harlem (City of New York): Its Origin and Early Annals
• Revised Register of the Soldiers and Sailors of New Hampshire in the War of Rebellion, 1861-1865
• Revolutionary Pension Declarations, Stafford County, [New Hampshire] 1820-1832
• Rhode Island Court Records; Records of the Court of Trials of the Colony of Providence Plantations 1647-1662
• Rhode Island Privateers in King George’s War 1739-1748
• Rhode’s Berks County Grange Directory: List of Officers and Members
• Rochester and Monroe County, New York
• Rockaway Records of Morris County, N.J., Families: Cemetery Records, Church Records, Military Records, Local History, Genealogies of Old Families
• Roster of Nebraska Volunteers From 1861 to 1869
• Roster of North Carolina Troops in the War Between the States
• Roster of North Carolina Volunteers in the Spanish American War, 1898-1899
• Roster of Ohio Soldiers in the War of 1812, Volumes 1-3
• Roster of Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines of the War of 1812, The Mexican War, and the War of the Rebellion Residing in Nebraska
• Roster of Survivors of the Seventh Michigan Cavalry and Muster out Rolls of the Regiment, Volumes 1-2
• Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865
• Second Edition History of New Paltz, New York and Its Old Families (from 1678 to 1820)
• Sherborn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts – Past and Present
• Sketches of Monroe and Union County [North Carolina]
• Sketches of the Old Inhabitants and Other Citizens of Old Springfield [Massachusetts] of the Present Century
• Southold Town Records and Explanatory Notes [New York] Volumes 1-2
• State of New Jersey Index of Wills, Inventories, etc.
• Suffolk County [Massachusetts] Bar Book: 1770-1805
• Supplement to the Register of the Massachusetts Society of Colonial Dames of America, 1905-1909
• Supplementary List of Marriage Licenses [New York]
• Tax Lists of the Town of Providence During the Administration of Sir Edmund Andros and His Council 1686-1689
• The Documentary History of the State of New-York
• The First Book of Records of the Town of Southampton [New York]: with Other Ancient Documents of Historic Value
• The Hard Case of the Founder of Old Hampton: Wrongs of Rev. Stephen Bachiller, Read at the Reunion of the Bachelder Family
• The History of Nantucket County, Island and Town [Massachusetts]
• The History of Ohio: From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time
• The History of Orangeburg County, South Carolina
• The History of Pittsylvania County, Virginia
• The History of Putnam County, N.Y.
• The History of the Town of Dummerston [Vermont]
• The History of Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Volumes 1-2
• The Moravian Graveyard at Nazareth, PA
• The Newspaper Press of Charleston, SC: A Chronological and Biographical History
• The Official Roster of the Soldiers of the American Revolution Buried in the State of Ohio, Volumes 1-2
• The Old Dutch Burying Ground of Sleepy Hollow [New York]
• The Old Kaskaskia [Illinois] Records
• The Old Rockingham Meeting House, Erected 1787 and the First Church in Rockingham, Vermont, 1773-1840
• The Proprietors' Records of the Town of Lunenburg, Massachusetts
• The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, Volumes 1, 3-16
• The Records of New Amsterdam from 1653 to 1674 Anno Domini
• The Records of Oxford, Mass.
• The Records of the Original Proceedings of the Ohio Company [Ohio]
• The Records of the Town of Hanover, New Hampshire, 1761-1818
• The Red Book of Syracuse and Onondaga County [New York]
• The Refugees of 1776 from Long Island to Connecticut
• The Roll of Honor of the Seventeenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, or, One Hundred and Sixty-Second of the Line, Pennsylvania Volunteers
• The Romance of Davis Mountains and Big Bend Country [Texas]
• The Site of the Wessagusset Settlement of 1622 at Weymouth, Massachusetts, Volumes 1-2
• The Sixth Volume of Records of Southampton, LI, NY
• The Story of Gloucester, Massachusetts
• The Town of Roxbury [Massachusetts]; Its Memorable Persons and Places
• The Wealthy Men and Women of Brooklyn and Williamsburgh [New York]
• Tombstone Records, Stanly County, N.C.
• Trenton’s Newspapers [New Jersey]. 1778-1932
• Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Settlement of Newbury [Massachusetts]
• Ulster County, N.Y. Probate Records
• Vermont Pension Roll (Revolutionary War)
• Virginia Wills Before 1799
• Warner's History of Dakota County, Nebraska
• Westchester County in History: Manual and Civil List, Past and Present, County History, Towns, Hamlets, Villages and Cities, 1683-1912
• Westchester County New York
• Westerley (Rhode Island) and Its Witnesses
• Western North Carolina, Historical and Biographical
• Westmoreland County, Virginia