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Past histories and other assorted gems

 

To help you along with your trek into Sherborn's past, we've assembled this guide to some sources about the town. Geek out with greater ease.

 

William Biglow (1773-1844) History of Sherburne, Mass (1830)

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Abner Morse (1793-1865), A genealogical register of the inhabitants and history of the towns of Sherborn and Holliston (1856)

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Thomas Baldwin (1849-x), Vital records of Sherborn, Massachusetts, to the year 1850 (1911)

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Deborah Perry Dowse Coolidge, The story of Sherborn (1918)

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Sherborn Historical Society, Sherborn past and present, 1674-1924 (1924)

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Sherborn Historical Society, The century turns (1966)

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Anne Carr Shaughnessy, The history of Sherborn (1974)

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Anne Carr Shaughnessy, A guide to Sherborn (1974)

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Betsy Johnson, Sherborn Historical Society, A snapshot photo tour of Sherborn in 2002

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Sherborn Library Collection at the Internet Archive

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Digital Commonwealth: Massachusetts Collections Online, Sherborn

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Edward W. Gordon & Mark P. O'Brien, Sherborn Historical Commission, Sherborn historic resource survey (1982)

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Pilgrim Church (Sherborn, Mass.) Ladies' associations collection, 1826-1989, folder 1.1

Minute books of Female Reading Society and the Ladies' Benevolent Society, 1826-1934; also minutes of the Pilgrim Church Union, 1912-1920; photocopies of LBS and later committee reports, 1945-1989; and a brief history of the church and the LBS.

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State Library of Massachusetts, Sherborn

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