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The beginning of Reading and Lynnfield, Massachusetts

1 page, 1 leaf, 5-33, [1] pages
Malden, Maplewood, Wakefield, Reading, Stoneham, Medford and West Medford : their representative business men and points of interest. (1893)

127 pages : illustrated
Inscriptions from the most ancient burial ground in South Reading, 1644-1834

Typed by a government project.
History of the First Baptist Church in Wakefield, Mass., 1800-1900

vii, 9-131, 2 pages : frontispiece
Historical sketch of the Baptist church in South Reading (1841)

100 pages : frontispiece (portrait)
Vital records of Reading, Massachusetts, to year 1850

586 pages
The story of Reading government

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Reading's "Old Burial Ground"

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Reading men in the early colonial wars

xii, 35 pages
Proceedings of the 250th anniversary of the ancient town of Redding, once including the territory now comprising the towns of Reading, Wakefield, and North Reading : with historical chapters

398 pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations
Parker Tavern being an account of a most interesting house built by Abraham Bryant in 1694, together with some facts about early owners

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The military record of Reading men in the War of Independence (1934)

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History of the Richardson Light Guard, of Wakefield, Mass. 1851-1901.

216, [33] pages : illustrations, facsimiles, map, portraits
History of the Richardson Light Guard, of Wakefield, Mass. 1901-1926

317 pages : illustrations
Historical sketch of ancient Redding, Massachusetts, to which has been added early Redding maps and town grants to early settlers, also an individual historical sketch of the first settlers of Redding and Middlesex and Essex county deeds and wills from 1638 for about 100 years (Volume 2).

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Historical sketch of ancient Redding, Massachusetts, to which has been added early Redding maps and town grants to early settlers, also an individual historical sketch of the first settlers of Redding and Middlesex and Essex county deeds and wills from 1638 for about 100 years (Volume 1).

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Historical address and poem delivered at the bi-centennial celebration of the incorporation of the old town of Reading, May 29, A.D., 1844: with an appendix

131 pages
Genealogical history of the town of Reading, Mass. : including the present towns of Wakefield, Reading, and North Reading, with chronological and historical sketches, from 1639 to 1874

xxviii, 815 pages :frontispiece, illustrations, plates, portraits
Early homesteads on Washington-High-Grove Street in Reading, Massachusetts

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The five meeting houses and early parsonages of the first parish of Old Reading, now Wakefield, Massachusetts (1937)

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First Congregational Church in Reading, 1770-1945 : its history as found in ancient record and present memory

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Early land grants and town bounds of the old Town of Reading, Massachusetts from 1639 to 1802

Carbon copy of a true manuscript from the Towne Old Books made in 1853 by J.W. Wightman, Town Clerk.
Concerning the past

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Church records of the old town of Reading, Mass. and of the First Parish of Reading and South Reading from 1648 to 1846

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Ancient Redding in Massachusetts bay colony; its planting as a Puritan village and sketches of its early settlers from 1639 to 1652

2 pages, 1 leaf, vii-viii pages, 1 leaf, 56 pages