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The Bennington Museum's research library has an excellent collection of historical material on Vermont and genealogical and biographical data on Vermont and New England families.
Book of the Wilders, by Moses H. Wilder, two volumes, a Tuttle reprint, 394 pp. Published in 1878.
The Harmon Genealogy, by Artemas C. Harmon, Washington, D.C., 1920. CD edition.
Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 edition, by Gary Boyd Roberts, published by New England Historic-Genealogical Society.
Descendants of Thomas Buttolph 1603-1667, compiled by John L. Buttolph III; donated by the compiler.
Fifteen Generations of Whipples: Descendants of Matthew Whipple of Ipswich, Massachusetts, An American Story, four volumes, written and compiled by Blaine Whipple, published by Gateway Press, 2007.
Herrick Genealogical Register, Third Edition, Vol. II, compiled by Richard Leon Herrick; donated by the compiler.
Louis Morin 1834-1912, a family history, compiled and donated by Mary LaFlamme Gratz.
Genealogy of Some of the Descendants of William Billing(s), compiled by Frank Billings, M.D.; no date, unindexed.
Who's Who in Vermont, ed. by Philip N. Fass and Merilyn S. Burrington, Regional Facts Inc., Middlebury, 1991.
Coolidge: An American Enigma, by Robert Sobel, Washington, D.C., Regnery Publishing, 1998; paperback, 462 pp.
Deane C. Davis: An Autobiography, with Nancy Price Graff, Shelburne, the New England Press, 1991; cloth, 352 pp.
Patriots: The Lives and Looks of Eight American Revolutionaries, by Joseph M. Bauman, published as part of The Daguerrean Annual, 2007. (Eight Revolutionary veterans whose photographs exist, includes Simeon Hicks of Sunderland.)
Shelburne: Pieces of History, by Truman M. Webster, Shelburne (Vt.) Historic Sites Committee, 1994; paperback, 133 pp.
History of North Hero, Vt., by Allen L. Stratton; Burlington, George Little Printing, 1976; cloth, 238 pp.
Safe Thus Far: History of Guilford Congregational Church 1767-1997, by Larrimore C. Crockett, Dummerston, Black Mountain Press, 1999, cloth, 275 pp. plus appendices.
Sandwich: The Oldest Town on Cape Cod, by Marise Fawsett; donated by Ken Carlson and Jim Meskun.
Historic Guide to Burlington Neighborhoods, by David Blow, Burlington, Chittenden County Historical Society, 1991; paperback, 212 pp.
Old Kittery: Scenes of America, by John D. Bardwell; an Arcadia picture book, 2005.
Fitchburg: Images of America, by Fitchburg Historical Society; an Arcadia picture book, 2005.
The History of Hingham: A Colonial American Town, by Arthur J. Roberts; self-published; donated by Bill Budde.
Northern Borders: A Novel, by Howard Frank Mosher; New York, Doubleday, 1994, cloth, 291 pp.
The Homestead by Zephine Humphrey, published 1919 by E. P. Dutton; donated by Nancy H. Otis.
“The Vermont Problem in the Continental Congress and in Interstate Relations, 1776-1787,” 321 pp., thesis by Winn L. Taplin Jr., University of Michigan, 1955.
A CD containing Pittstown, N.Y., Baptist Church records; History of the Shaftsbury Baptist Association, 1853; The Two Covells, Brown, 1839; donated by Constance Kheel.
Richland Township Cemeteries, Oswego County, N.Y., Vol. 2, comp. by Julie Litts Robst; donated by Shawn Doyle. (Contains obituaries of early settlers, many from Vermont.)
Vermont's Scarcest Discontinued Post Offices, by Richard J. Marek; published by Vermont Philatelic Society, June 2001.
Vermont's Postal History: Leon White's Cover Collection of Discontinued Post Offices, by Leon White, ed. By Karl E. Henson; published by Vermont Philatelic Society, 1998.
Robert Frost: The Poet as Philosopher, by Peter J. Stanlis; published 2007 by ISI Books, Wilmington, Del.; donated by the author.
The History of the Soldiers' Home of Vermont 1884-2006, author not acknowledged; donated by Don B. Keelan.
The Farm in the Green Mountains, by Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer, Shelburne, New England Press, 1987; paperback, 216 pp.
A Vermonter's Literary Hodgepodge, by Iloene Flower Brennan, Bloomington, Ind., Authorhouse; paperback, 199 pp.
The Story of the Ticonderoga: A chronicle of steamboating, by Ralph Nading Hill; Shelburne, the Shelburne Museum, 1957; paperback, 107 pp.
Ticonderoga: Lake Champlain Steamboat, by Richard M. Strum; Shelburne Museum, 1998; paperback, 110 pp.
Green Mountain College: In loco parentis, by Ruth-Ann Knieriemen, Poultney, Journal Press Inc., 1984; cloth, 371 pp.
A Dresser of Sycamore Trees: The Finding of a Ministry, by Garret Keizer, published 1991 by Viking; cloth, 207 pp. Memoir of an Island Pond minister.
The Star That Set: The Vermont Republican Party 1854-1974, by Samuel B. Hand, Lexington Books, 2002; cloth, 353 pp.
Green Mountains and Rock Ribs, Story and Pictures by Keith Jennison, Brattleboro, Stephen Greene Press, 1954; paperback, 90 pp.
Over the Hills to Woodstock, by Edgar Mead Jr., Brattleboro, Stephen Greene Press, 1967; hardcover, 44 pp. Shortline railroad series.
Letters from the Attic, compiled by Gregg Condon, published 1999 by Marsh Productions. Six generations of compiled letters of the family of Francis and Hannah Smith found in an attic in Brodhead, Wisconsin. Donated by Irene Pagel.
Personal Recollections of L. D. Coy, 1897. Booklet describes who lived where in Manchester in 1897; donated by Nancy H. Otis.
American Folklore, by Richard M. Dorson; published 1960 by University of Chicago Press.
The Way We Were: New England Then, New England Now, by Daniel Okrent, published 1988 by Grove Weidenfeld, New York. A book of photographs, mostly by Gordon Parks.
What to Name the Baby, by Evelyn Wells, Garden City Books, 1946. Origins and background of 15,000 given names.
Vermont Sketches, by Nita Reed. Recollections of Orange County towns of Chelsea, Tunbridge, Corinth; donated by Jim Meskun and Ken Carlson.
Over Cram Hill, by Russell H. Farnsworth. Recollections of Brookfield, Roxbury, Braintree, Randolph; donated by Jim Meskun and Ken Carlson.
Good Vermonters: The Pierces of North Shrewsbury, by Karen D. Lorenz, Mountain Publishing, Shrewsbury, 2000; donated by Jim Meskun and Ken Carlson.
Green Mountain Club's Long Trail Guide and Hiking Trail Map.
The Line of Forts: Historical Archaeology on the Colonial Frontier of Massachusetts, by Michael D. Coe. Published 1906 by University Press of New England.
