• [S6] Interview with Grandma Conger, Louisa Shove Conger (1840-1942), by Mary Lou Heaton Skinner Ross, sometime before Grandma Conger's death in 1942. LHB Notebook - E-Mails and Letters (Summerlin, Nevada).
  • [S9] Compiled by Mary Lou Heaton Skinner Ross, transcribed from the original Conger Volumes published by Helen Maxine Cromwell in 1973, "Notes Taken From: The Conger Family of America", compiled on 10 Aug 1982 (Issaquah, Washington 98029). Hereinafter cited as "Conger Family Outline."
  • [S165] 1810 United States Federal Census, online at www.ancestry.com. Hereinafter cited as 1810 US Federal Census.
  • [S240] Mary Lou Skinner Ross, Thoughts While Ironing. Warning: The publication contains no chapters or page numbers. (Atlanta, Georgia: Ross, Mary Lou Skinner, 1981). Hereinafter cited as Thoughts While Ironing.
  • [S241] Earnest Elmo Calkins, They Broke the Prairie (New York, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937). Hereinafter cited as They Broke the Prairie.
  • [S249] Illinois Public Domain Land Tract Database of the Illinois State Archives, online at http://www.library.sos.state.il.us/departments/archives/…. Hereinafter cited as Illinois Public Domain Land Records.
  • [S293] From a manuscript in the possession of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, "A Record of Deaths in Boston and Vicinity, 1799-1815", New England Historical and Genealogical Register volumes 77, 78 and 79 (published in 1923-1925). Hereinafter cited as "Deaths in Boston, 1799-1815."
  • [S295] Charles Henry Pope, The Pioneers of Massachusetts: A Descriptive List, drawn from records of the colonies, towns, and churches, and other contemporaneous documents. Available now online from the Family History Catalog at www.familysearch.org. (Baltimore, Maryland: C.H. Pope originally in 1900 at Boston and reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Company, 1991). Hereinafter cited as The Pioneers of Massachusetts.
  • [S466] 1790 United States Federal Census, online at www.ancestry.com. Hereinafter cited as 1790 US Federal Census.
  • [S480] John Bolton (of Bristol County), number S29649; Massachusetts, Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Application File; film number M804 (Washington D.C.: NARA).
  • [S481] First Book of Raynham (MA) Records, 1700-1835 - NEHGS, online at www.newenglandancestors.org. Hereinafter cited as Raynham, Massachusetts Records-NEHGS.
  • [S482] Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution, in 17 Volumes, online at www.ancestry.com. Hereinafter cited as Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolutionary War.
  • [S486] John Bolton, Affidavit of Death 1841, Probate File Number 26247, Probate Records 1648-1924, Middlesex County Massachusetts probate file number 26247 (Microfilm of original records in the Middlesex County Courthouse, Cambridge, Massachusetts), LDS Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah. Hereinafter cited as Bolton, John Affidavit of Death 1841.
  • [S496] Ethel Stanwood Bolton, Immigrants to New England, 1700-1775 (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1966 reprint of 1931 edition published in Salem, Massachusetts). Hereinafter cited as New England Immigrants 1700-1775.
  • [S534] Eric Nellis and Anne Decker Cecere, editors, The eighteenth-century records of the Boston overseers of the poor (Boston, Massachusetts: Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 2007). Hereinafter cited as Boston overseers of the poor.
  • [S600] Berkley (Massachusetts) Vital Records, Town Clerk's record books, Berkley Town Clerk, 1 North Main Street, Berkley, Massachusetts.
  • [S602] U.S. Federal Government, Heads of Families at the first Census of the United States taken in the Year 1790 in Massachusetts (Baltimore, Maryland: reprinted 1966, 1973, 1992, 1998 by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1908 by Government Printing Office, Washington DC). Hereinafter cited as Massachusetts 1790 Heads of Families.
  • [S603] Benjamin Shurtleff, compiler, Descendants of William Shurtleff of Plymouth and Marshfield, Massachusetts, downloaded from Google Books at www.google.com. (Revere, Massachusetts: Benjamin Shurtleff, 1912). Hereinafter cited as Descendants of William Shurtleff of Massachusetts.
  • [S606] Douglas Richardson, Bolton Family of Massachusetts and Vermont (GenForum posting), 01 March 2001, GenForum Genealogy online at genforum.genealogy.com. Hereinafter cited as Bolton Family Genealogy Forum (Richardson, March 2001).
  • [S608] Bolton Family Bible - Bristol County Massachusetts. Transcription located online at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~meandrhs/taylor/bible/… as a result of a Google search, (2001); Jimmy - e-mail address Kerr, Austin, Texas 79762. Hereinafter cited as Bolton Family Bible - Bristol County Massachusetts.
  • [S614] Francis Greenleaf Pratt, The Pratt family: a genealogical record of Matthew Pratt of Weymouth, Mass., and his American descendants, 1623-1888, downloaded from Google Books, (Boston, Massachusetts: C.H. Heintzemann, 1890). Hereinafter cited as Pratt Family, Matthew Pratt of Weymouth, 1623-1888.
  • [S618] Connecticut vital records based on the Barbour collection: compiled and edited by Jacquelyn Ladd Ricker, The Ricker compilation of vital records of early Connecticut: based on the Barbour collection of Connecticut town vital records and other statistical sources, CD-ROM (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, c2006). Hereinafter cited as Ricker compilation of vital records of early Connecticut.
  • [S667] Massachusetts Town Death Records, online at www.ancestry.com. Hereinafter cited as Massachusetts Town Death Records.
  • [S670] Prepared by Arthur Adams, "Memoirs of the Deceased Members of the New England Historic Genealogical Society", New England Historical & Genealogical Register Volume 113, page 229 (July 1959). Hereinafter cited as "Memoirs - Harry Emmett Bolton."
  • [S674] Contributed by Harry E. Bolton of Attleboro, Massachusetts, "Otsego County, N.Y., Cemetery Inscriptions", New England Historical & Genealogical Register Volume 98 (October 1944). Hereinafter cited as "Otsego County Cemetery Inscriptions."
  • [S693] George Ernest Bowman, Vital records of the town of Halifax, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849, downloaded from the Boston Public Library eBooks and Texts Archive at www.archive.org. Includes indexes. (Boston, Massachusetts: Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1905). Hereinafter cited as Halifax vital records to 1849.
  • [S743] James Reed and Emory Washburn, Celebration of the two hundredth anniversary of the incorporation of Bridgewater, Massachusetts: at West Bridgewater, June 3, 1856, including the address by Hon. Emory Washburn, of Worcester; poem read by James Reed, and the other exercises of the occasion, downloaded from Google Books at www.google.com. (Boston, Massachusetts: John Wilson and Son, 1856). Hereinafter cited as Bridgewater Centennial Celebration.
  • [S749] State of Massachusetts, compiler, The Acts and Resolves, Public and Private, of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay: to which are prefixed the Charters of the Province with historical and explanatory notes and an appendix, 1761-1764, downloaded from Google Books at www.google.com. (Boston, Massachusetts: Wright & Potter Printing Company, State Printers, 1910). Hereinafter cited as Massachusetts Bay Acts and Resolves 1761-1764.
  • [S750] State of Massachusetts, compiler, The Acts and Resolves, Public and Private, of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay: to which are prefixed the Charters of the Province with historical and explanatory notes and an appendix, 1753-1756, downloaded from Google Books at www.google.com. (Boston, Massachusetts: Wright & Potter Printing Company, State Printers, 1908). Hereinafter cited as Massachusetts Bay Acts and Resolves 1753-1756.
  • [S751] Copied by Francis E. Blake from originals in possession of Henry Dean Forbes Esq. of Boston, "Roll of Capt. Jonathan Howard's Company of Bridgewater, Mass., 1754, with other papers", New England Historical & Genealogical Register Volume 51 (April 1897). Hereinafter cited as "Capt. Jonathan Howard's Company of Bridgewater, 1754."
  • [S752] Act of the General Assembly, compiler, Rolls of Connecticut Men in the French and Indian War, 1755-1762, downloaded from Google Books at www.google.com. In 2 volumes. Includes indexes. Contents: v. 1. 1755-1757 -- v. 2. 1758-1762, appendixes, 1755-1764. (Hartford, Connecticut: Connecticut Historical Society, 1905). Hereinafter cited as Connecticut Men in the French and Indian War, 1755-1762.
  • [S753] Henry Parks Wright, Soldiers of Oakham, Massachusetts in the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812 and the Civil War, downloaded from Google Books at www.google.com. (New Haven, Connecticut: The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Press, 1914). Hereinafter cited as Soldiers of Oakham, Massachusetts.
  • [S754] The Rev. Frederic W. Bailey, editor, downloaded from Google Books, Early Massachusetts marriages prior to 1800: as found in the official records of Plymouth County, Second Book. Title page calls it three books in one. Includes indexes. Contents: First book (vol.) Worcester County -- Second book (vol.) Plymouth County -- Third book (vol.) Middlesex, Hampshire, Berkshire, and Bristol counties. (New Haven, Connecticut: Bureau of American Ancestry, 1900). Hereinafter cited as Early Massachusetts marriages prior to 1800 with Plymouth County.
  • [S756] Ellen D. Larned, History of Windham County, Connecticut, Volume II. 1760-1880, downloaded from Google Books at www.google.com. (Worcester, Massachusetts: published by the author and printed by Charles Hamilton, 1880). Hereinafter cited as History of Windham County, Connecticut, Volume II.
  • [S771] Chris A. Bolton, "Jeremiah Bolton's Line, Corrections and Additional Information," e-mail messages from e-mail address to LHB, multiple dates. Hereinafter cited as "Jeremiah Bolton, Additional Information."
  • [S773] Foreign Intelligence, European Magazine, and London Review, downloaded from Google Books at www.google.com. Foreign Intelligence (from the London Gazettes). (London, England: The Philological Society of London, July to December 1797), Volume 52. Hereinafter cited as European Magazine, and London Review.
  • [S778] Abigail Coppins, "Emails from a researcher at the National Archives, London, England," e-mail messages from e-mail address to LHB, multiple dates. Hereinafter cited as "Emails from a researcher at the London National Archives."
  • [S779] Elmer I. Shepard, compiler, downloaded from the Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center, "Marriages in New Lebanon, New York : [performed by] Rev. Silas Churchill, 1795-1851 [and] Ira Hand, Esq., Justice of the Peace, 1832-1852" (Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center, Fort Wayne, Indiana: originally published in Berkshire Genealogical Notes No. 4). Hereinafter cited as New Lebanon, New York Marriages 1795-1851.
  • [S800] John Arnold Byram, Byrams in America (original version). Includes index. William H. Byram moved from England to Ireland about the time his son, Nicholas Byram (ca.1610-1683), was born. When Nicholas was sixteen, his father sent him to visit friends in England in care of a man who betrayed his trust and sold Nicholas into indenturehood in the West Indies. After Nicholas had completed his indenturehood, he immigrated to Weymouth, Massachusetts, and married Susanna Shaw. They later moved to Bridgewater, Massachusetts. (Baltimore, Maryland: Gateway Press, c1988). Hereinafter cited as Byrams in America (original).
  • [S801] John Arnold Byram, Byrams in America (revised version). Includes index. Nicholas Byram landed in Virginia in 1637. He went to Wessagusset, now Weymouth, Massachusetts, where he was made a Freeman by the Court, May, 1638. He married Susanna Shaw. They moved to Bridgewater in 1662 and were the second settlers of that area. By the time of his death in 1688, Nicholas had acquired almost 500 acres of land. Susanna's will of September 7, 1698 was probated December 18, 1699. It provided for son, Nicholas, his wife, Mary, and children Nicholas and Mehitable; daughters Abigail Whitman, Deliverance Porter, Experience Willis, and Susan Edson; grandchildren Ebenezer Whitman, Mary Leach, and Mary Willis. (Baltimore, Maryland: Gateway Press, c1996). Hereinafter cited as Byrams in America (revised).
  • [S910] Linda Pumiglia, "Sylvanus R. Bolton," e-mail messages from e-mail address to LHB, 29 Sep and 4 Oct 2011. Hereinafter cited as "Sylvanus R. Bolton Email Messages."
  • [S978] Rhode Island City Directories, online at www.ancestry.com. Hereinafter cited as Rhode Island City Directories.
  • [S1120] Bridgewater (Massachusetts) Town Clerk, Town records 1656-1823, Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Microfilm of manuscripts filmed at the East Bridgewater Town Hall, Plymouth County, East Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Includes records of births, marriages, and deaths, town meeting records, records of land and property, and other miscellaneous town records; on 2 microfilm reels, LDS Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah. Hereinafter cited as Town records 1656-1823, Bridgewater.
  • [S1124] John Bolton, Probate (1723 Bridgewater, Plymouth County) Case number 2216, Box 107049 on FHL Film# 2426726. Probate file papers 1686-1881, Plymouth County, Massachusetts; microfilm of records at Supreme Judicial Court, Boston, on 246 microfilm reels. LDS Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah. Hereinafter cited as Probate of John Bolton (1723 Bridgewater).
  • [S1126] Joseph, Nathaniel and Abigail Bolton, Guardianship (1722 Bridgewater, Plymouth County) Case number 2221, Box 107049 on FHL Film# 2426726. Probate file papers 1686-1881, Plymouth County, Massachusetts; microfilm of records at Supreme Judicial Court, Boston, on 246 microfilm reels. LDS Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah. Hereinafter cited as Guardianship for Joseph, Nathaniel and Abigail Bolton (1722 Bridgewater).
  • [S1161] Deaths, Original records of Gad Hitchcock, 1748-1803. Gad Hitchcock was the first minister of the Second Church of Christ in the West Parish of Pembroke, now Hanson, Massachusetts. During his ministry there he recorded in a diary in his own handwriting the Christian events at which he officiated. His diary, containing his original record of deaths, is currently held in the safe in the office of the Town Clerk in Pembroke. Pembroke Town Hall, 100 Center Street, Pembroke, Massachusetts.
  • [S1169] Milton (Massachusetts) Town Clerk, Records and intentions of marriage, Book 2, ca. 1800-1874 (Milton, Massachusetts); FHL Film# 1059953, viewed online at www.familysearch.org, LDS Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah. Hereinafter cited as Milton Marriage Records, Book 2, 1800-1874.
  • [S1829] Community Indexed Vital and Church Records, International Genealogical Index (IGI) available online at https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/igi. The International Genealogical Index was a family history database that listed several hundred million names of deceased persons from throughout the world. Names in the IGI came from two sources: Community Indexed and Community Contributed. The Community Indexed IGI contained viital and church records from the early 1500s to 1885 which, in almost all cases, we have found to be accurate transcriptions of the actual records and a very useful tool in our research. (Salt Lake City, Utah: www.familysearch.org).
  • [S1830] Trinity Church Parish, New York, New York, New York computer printout; marriages, 1746-1861 on FHL Film# 882993. Contains information extracted from book number: 974 B2n v. 69-72, 74-79, 81-89 for the Controlled Extraction Program of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Inc. It was published by the Genealogical Society of Utah in 1977 with a searchable index and transcriptions available online, viewed online at www.familysearch.org, Salt Lake City, Utah. Hereinafter cited as Trinity Church Parish, New York City, Marriages, 1746-1861.
  • [S1831] Trinity Church Wallstreet Genealogy: Digital Churchyards & Registers, online at https://www.trinitywallstreet.org/about/archives/…. Hereinafter cited as Trinity Church Wallstreet Genealogy: Digital Churchyards & Registers.