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ONLINE BOOK ABOUT MASSASOITINDIAN HISTORY AND GENEALOGY My gratitude goes to David Blackwell for making this rare book available to all of us through his books online project. Due to the many OCR errors on the scanned version, I opted to type the entire book rather than misspell any of the names and dates. His scanning equipment has greatly improved since this book was done, and you can find links to his very worthwhile project on my homepage. This book was the closest thing I could find to a history OF the New England Indians BY the New England Indians. The author was not Indian himself, but included information from Zerviah Gould Mitchell, a direct descendant of Massasoit through his daughter Amie. It was not a thorough genealogy of Massasoit's family, but it provided a good basis for my New England Indians database. Mr. Pierce tried to be fair and accurate with his account of the King Philip War, and I appreciated his effort. Please note: An extensive Table of Contents was included in the book, but I've omitted it for now to save time. Original page numbers are shown in brackets throughout the book. Footnotes are listed at the end of each chapter (or section of Chapter 3) and are linkable from the text. They include genealogy info on a lot of the Colonial Militia. Appendixes have now been typed up by Linda DiCecco, and have been added. Thanks so much, Linda! They are full of deeds, town records, genealogy and history. Their footnotes are included with each appendix. The entire book is hopefully searchable, but be aware that the original spelling of names by various clerks was often quite creative.
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