Expand your knowledge of US history and the places your ancestor lived with this collection of over 300 books of state and local histories.
Expand your knowledge of US history and the places your ancestor lived with this collection of over 300 books of state and local histories.
This collection comprises 332 digitized books of state and local histories, available to view in PDF format. These histories come from Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Washington D.C., West Virginia, and Wisconsin.
You can narrow your search by publication year, title, county, and state. Additionally, you can search by keywords and page number.
These resources can help flush out your understanding of where your ancestor lived and what life was like during that time. Location has always played an integral role in an individual’s quality of life and the opportunities available. Learning more about the specific towns and counties your family came from can help explain certain aspects of their lives, such as why they were in certain professions. You may also come across a biographical account of an individual who was important to the founding or growth of a place of significance to your family; the individual could perhaps be your ancestor.
Several volumes include records and histories from the 1700s and may provide details of public records. Some local church congregation records have likewise been preserved in this collection including Register of Baptisms, Births, Marriages, etc. in the Dutch Reformed Church, Stone House Plains [now Bloomfield], New Jersey 1801 and Records of the Lutheran Trinity Church of Stone Arabia in the Town of Palatine, Montgomery County, N.Y.
If you are interested in military history or have an ancestor who served, you may find the following titles of interest:
History of the 27th Regiment N.Y. Vols.
Muster Rolls of the Soldiers of the War of 1812: Detached from the Militia of North Carolina in 1812 and 1814
Record of Pennsylvania Volunteers in the Spanish-American War, 1898
Record of the Massachusetts Volunteers, 1861-1865
Records of Officers and Men of New Jersey in Wars 1791-1815
Records of Soldiers and Officers in the Military Service, Brant, N.Y., 1865
Records of the Services of Illinois Soldiers in The Black Hawk War 1831-1832 and in The Mexican War 1846-48
Register of Commissioned Officers and Privates of the New Jersey Volunteers
Register of Commissioned Officers of the New Jersey Volunteers
Register of the Members of the “Artillery Corps, Washington Grays” of the City of Philadelphia who Served in the War of the Rebellion, Volumes 1-2
Revised Register of the Soldiers and Sailors of New Hampshire in the War of Rebellion, 1861-1865
Revolutionary Pension Declarations, Stafford County, [New Hampshire] 1820-1832
Rhode Island Privateers in King George’s War 1739-1748
Rhode’s Berks County Grange Directory: List of Officers and Members
Rockaway Records of Morris County, N.J., Families: Cemetery Records, Church Records, Military Records, Local History, Genealogies of Old Families
Roster of Nebraska Volunteers From 1861 to 1869
Roster of North Carolina Troops in the War Between the States
Roster of North Carolina Volunteers in the Spanish American War, 1898-1899
Roster of Ohio Soldiers in the War of 1812, Volumes 1-3
Roster of Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines of the War of 1812, The Mexican War, and the War of the Rebellion Residing in Nebraska
Roster of Survivors of the Seventh Michigan Cavalry and Muster out Rolls of the Regiment, Volumes 1-2
Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865
The Official Roster of the Soldiers of the American Revolution Buried in the State of Ohio, Volumes 1-2
The Roll of Honor of the Seventeenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, or, One Hundred and Sixty-Second of the Line, Pennsylvania Volunteers
There are 332 books included in this collection. Some titles are split out into individual volumes while others include several volumes in one.
A Biographical Record of Chemung County, New York
A Chronological Register of Boscawen in the County of Merrimack and State of New-Hampshire
A Collection of Brief Biographical and Other Sketches Relating to the Early History of Cambria County, Pennsylvania
A Complete and Connected History of Schenectady
A Contribution to the History of Lunenburg County and Southside Virginia
A History of Colonial Virginia
A History of Coventry, Orleans County, Vermont
A History of Herkimer County [New York]
A History of Monmouth and Ocean Counties [New Jersey]
A History of Orange County, Virginia from its Formation to the End of Reconstruction (1734-1870)
A History of Shenandoah County, Virginia
A History of St. Lawrence and Franklin County, New York
A History of the Valley and County of Chemung [New York]
A List of Rhode Island Soldiers and Sailors in King George’s War 1740-1748
A Narrative History of Remsen, New York: Including Parts of Adjoining Townships of Steuben and Trenton, 1789-1898
A Real History of Newark [New Jersey] and Notable Newarkers
A Record of the Inscriptions in the Old Town Burying Ground of Newburgh, N.Y.
A Series of Authentic Biographical Sketches of the Representative Men of Vermont and Sons of Vermont in Other States
A Volume of Records Relating to the Early History of Boston [Massachusetts]
A Volume Relating to the Early History Boston [Massachusetts]: Containing the Aspinwall Notarial Records from 1644 to 1651, Volumes 1-13
Allegany County and Its People: A Centennial Memorial History of Allegany County, New York
An Account of Some of the Old Homesteads and Families of King William County, Virginia
An Illustrated History of Umatilla County [Oregon]
Annals of Oxford, New York: With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Early Pioneers, Volumes 1-2
Biographical History of Westchester County, New York
Biographical Sketch of the residents of that part of Dedham [Massachusetts]
Biographical Sketches of the Leading Citizens of Broome County, New York
Biographical Sketches of the Leading Citizens of Delaware County, New York
Chronicles of Monroe in the Olden Time: Town and Village, Orange County, New York
Collections of the Illinois State Historical Library, Volume I, Newspapers and Periodicals of Illinois 1814-1879
Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania: Genealogical and Personal Memoirs
Commemorative Biographical Record of Northeastern Pennsylvania Including the Counties of Susquehanna, Wayne Pike and Monroe, Volume 1-2
Dedication of the Soldiers’ Monument in Amherst, NH
Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey, Volume 21
Dr. Robert Finleys [sic] Marriages from June 1795 to 1817 [New Jersey]
Early History of the Bellows Family and the Village of Walpole, New Hampshire
Early History of Thurston County, Washington
Early History of West Philadelphia and Its Environs [Pennsylvania]
Early Settlement of Essex County [New Jersey]
Early Settlement of Otsego County: Notices and Anecdotes of Public Men
Embracing the History of Woodbridge, Piscataway, Metuchen and Contiguous Places [New Jersey]
Gazetteer and Biographical Record of Genesee County, N.Y., 1788-1890
Gazetteer and Business Directory of Broome and Tioga Counties, N.Y. for 1872-3
Gazetteer and Business Directory of Oneida County, N.Y. for 1869
Gazetteer of the County of Washington, N.Y.: Comprising a Correct Statistical and Miscellaneous History of the County and Several Towns
Genealogical and Memorial History of the State of NJ
Giving An Account of Ye First Settlement: Progress of the Baptists at Croswicks [sic] or Upper Freehold [New Jersey]
Gopsill’s Westchester County Directory [New York]
Greensboro [North Carolina], 1808-1904. Facts, Figures, Traditions and Reminiscences, Volumes 1-2
Historical Gazetteer of Tioga County, New York 1785-1888
History and Directory of Warren County. NJ
History of Antrim, NH
History of Armstrong Country, Pennsylvania
History of Ashburnham, Massachusetts
History of Augusta County, Virginia
History of Bergen County New Jersey
History of Berlin, Connecticut
History of Cattaraugus County, New York: With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers
History of Chautauqua County, New York
History of Delaware County, Iowa
History of Edgecombe County, North Carolina, Volumes 1-2
History of Erie County, Pennsylvania, Volumes 1-2
History of Guildhall, Vermont
History of Herkimer County, NY, Illustrated with Portraits of Many of Its Citizens
History of Hudson, NH: Formerly a Part of Dunstable, MA, 1673-1733, Nottingham, MA, 1733-1741, District of Nottingham, 1741-1746, Nottingham West, NH, 1746-1830, Hudson, NH, 1830-1912
History of Iowa County, Wisconsin
History of Jefferson County, Illinois
History of Lower Scioto Valley, Ohio
History of Marshall County [West Virginia]: From Forest to Field
History of Newport County, Rhode Island, from the Year 1638 to the Year 1887
History of Northampton County (Pennsylvania) and the Grand Valley of the Lehigh
History of Northampton County, Pennsylvania
History of Oneida County, New York: From 1700 to the Present Time
History of Onondaga, New York: With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers
History of Ontario County, New York: With Illustrations and Family Sketches of Some of the Prominent Men and Families
History of Perry County, Ohio
History of Putnam County, New York: With Biographical Sketches of Its Prominent Men
History of Rockingham and Strafford Counties, NH
History of Rush County, Indiana
History of St. Lawrence Co., New York: Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers
History of Sussex and Warren Counties, NJ
History of Tennessee
History of the 27th Regiment N.Y. Vols.
History of the Town of Livermore, Androscoggin County, Maine
History of the Town of Newburgh
History of the Town of Rindge, New Hampshire
History of the Town of Westford, in the County of Middlesex, Massachusetts, 1659-1883
History of Turner, Maine
History of Vernon County, Wisconsin
History of Weymouth, Massachusetts
Huntingtown Town Records Including Babylon, Long Island, N.Y., 1653-1775
Index of Wills of Sullivan County, NY
Lake County Indiana, from 1834 to 1872
Lancaster County Indians Annals of the Susquehannocks and Other Indian Tribes of the Susquehanna Territory from about the Year 1500 to 1763
LaSalle in the Valley of the St. Joseph [Illinois]
Manchester Then and Now
Marriage Notices in the South Carolina Gazette and Its Successors (1732-1801)
Massachusetts, Plymouth, Town Records, 1636-1705
Memoranda in Regard to Several Hundred Emigrants to Virginia During the Colonial Period
Minutes of the Court of Fort Orange and Beverwyck 1652-1660 [New York]
Montauk
Mortuary Records with Genealogical Notes of the Town of Spafford, Onondaga, New York
Muster Rolls of the Soldiers of the War of 1812: Detached from the Militia of North Carolina in 1812 and 1814
Names of Persons for Whom Marriage Licenses were Issued by the Secretary of the Province of New York, Previous to 1784
Nantucket [Massachusetts] A History
Nelson’s Biographical Dictionary and Historical Reference Book of Erie County, PA
New Bedford [Massachusetts] of the Past
New Bedford Massachusetts: Its History, Industries, Institutions, and Attractions
New Jersey, Marriages 1665-1800
New Jersey, Wills, 1670-1817
New Rochelle, Her Part in the Great War
New Rochelle, New York Deaths 1853-1881
New York City and Vicinity During the War of 1812-15
New York City During the American Revolution
New York in the Revolution as a Colony and State
New York in the Spanish-American War, 1898
Newton County [Indiana]
North and South Carolina Marriage Records
North Carolina Wills and Inventories, Volumes 1-2
Notable Men of Tennessee: From 1833 to 1875
Old Churches of Orange County, New York
Old Marblehead [Massachusetts] Sea Captains and the ships in which they sailed
Old Rutland: Side Lights on Her Honorable and Notable Story During One Hundred and Sixty Years, A.D. 1761-A.D. 1922, Volumes 1-2
One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Settlement of Boscawen and Webster, Merrimack Co., N.H., August 16, 1883. Also Births Recorded on the Town Records from 1733 to 1850
Onondaga’s Centennial: Gleanings of a Century
Oregon, Volunteers in the Spanish War and Philippine Insurrection, 1903
Our County and Its People: A Descriptive Work on Jefferson County, New York
Our County and Its People: A Memorial Record of St. Lawrence County, New York
Past and Present of Syracuse and Onondaga County, New York: From Prehistoric Times to the Beginning of 1908
Pennsylvania Archives Series, Volumes 4-10
Pioneer History of Coos and Curry Counties, Oregon
Pioneer History of Custer County [Nebraska]
Pioneer History of Huron County Michigan
Pioneer History of Medina County [Ohio]
Pioneer History of Wise County [Texas]
Pioneers of Old Hopewell [New Jersey] with Sketches of Her Revolutionary Heroes
Plymouth [Massachusetts] Church Records, 1620-1859
Plymouth Church Records (Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts)
Plymouth Meeting, Its Establishment, and the Settlement of the Township
Political Handbook of Berks County. Pennsylvania, 1752-1883
Polk County Pioneer Sketches
Portrait and Biographical Album of De Witt and Piatt Counties, Illinois
Portrait and Biographical Album of DeKalb County, Illinois
Portrait and Biographical Album of Gratiot County, Michigan
Portrait and Biographical Album of Hillsdale County, Michigan
Portrait and Biographical Album of Huron County, Michigan
Portrait and Biographical Album of Ingham and Livingston Counties, Michigan
Portrait and Biographical Album of Isabella County, Michigan
Portraits and Biographical Record of Portland and Vicinity, Oregon
Portrait and Biographical Record of Seneca and Schuyler Counties, New York
Portrait Biographical Album of Fulton County, Illinois
Portraits and Biographies of the Governors of Michigan and of the Presidents of the United States
Proctor: The Story of a Marble Town [Vermont]
Quincy and Adams County [Illinois] History and Representative Men
Ramsay’s History of South Carolina, Volumes 1-2
Reading and Berks County, Pennsylvania, a History
Recollections of the Early Settlement of Wabash Valley [Indiana]
Record of Bridgeville Circuit, Which Includes Glen Wild, Rockhill and Bridgeville, N.Y.
Record of Pennsylvania Volunteers in the Spanish-American War, 1898
Record of Real Estate Owned by the City of New York
Record of the Massachusetts Volunteers, 1861-1865
Records of Christ Church (Episcopal) at Ballston Spa, New York 1793-1915
Records of Consistory of the Union Tabernacle Reformed Church, Unionville, Sullivan County, N.Y.
Records of Officers and Men of New Jersey in Wars 1791-1815
Records of Soldiers and Officers in the Military Service, Brant, N.Y., 1865
Records of the “Hill” Lutheran Church in Derry Township, Dauphin County, PA, Volumes 1-2
Records of the Associated Reformed Church of Mongaup Valley, Sullivan County, New York
Records of the Dutch Reformed Saint John’s Church in the Town of St. Johnsville, Montgomery County, N.Y.
Records of the East Hampton, Long Island, Suffolk Co., N.Y.
Records of the First Presbyterian Church Cranbury, N.J. 1744-1891
Records of the First Presbyterian Church Lake Huntington, Sullivan County, N.Y.
Records of the First Reformed Church at Pompton Plains New Jersey
Records of the Free Methodist Church Ferndale, Sullivan County, N.Y.
Records of the Lutheran Trinity Church of Stone Arabia in the Town of Palatine, Montgomery County, N.Y.
Records of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Monticello, Sullivan County, New York
Records of the Methodist Episcopal Church Cochecton, Sullivan County, N.Y.
Records of the Methodist Episcopal Church Grahamsville, Sullivan County, N.Y.
Records of the Presbyterian Church Monticello, Sullivan County, New York
Records of the Methodist Episcopal Church Rock Hill, Sullivan County, N.Y.
Records of the Methodist Episcopal Church Sandburgh, Sullivan County, N.Y.
Records of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Swan Lake Sullivan County, N.Y.; White Sulphur Springs, Sullivan County, N.Y.; Harris, Sullivan County, N.Y.
Records of the Office of the County Clerk at Jamaica, Long Island, New York: 1680-1781
Records of the Reformed Dutch Church of Stone Arabia in the Town of Palatine, Montgomery County, N.Y.
Records of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church at the Owasco Outlet in the Town of Fleming, Cayuga County, N.Y.
Records of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Caughnawaga, Now the Reformed Church of Fonda, in the Village of Fonda, Montgomery County, N.Y.
Records of the Services of Illinois Soldiers in The Black Hawk War 1831-1832 and in The Mexican War 1846-48
Records of the Town of Braintree [Massachusetts], 1640 to 1793
Records of the Town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County [New York]
Records of the Town of New Rochelle, 1699-1928
Records of the Town of Smithtown, Long Island, N.Y.
Records of the Township of Paterson, New Jersey, 1831-1851
Records of the White Lake Presbyterian Church of Bethel, Sullivan County, New York
Reformed Dutch Church Records of Pompton Plains, [New York] with Records of Montville
Reformed Dutch Church, Clarkstown, Rockland County, New York
Register of Baptisms, Births, Marriages, Membership of the Dutch Reformed Church at Second River [now Belleville], New Jersey, 1794-1848
Register of Baptisms, Births, Marriages, Membership, etc. in the Dutch Reformed Church, Stone House Plains [now Bloomfield], New Jersey 1801
Register of Baptisms, Marriages, Communicants, & Funerals Begun by Henry Barclay at Fort Hunter, January 26th, 1734/5
Register of Commissioned Officers and Privates of the New Jersey Volunteers
Register of Commissioned Officers of the New Jersey Volunteers
Register of Families Settled at the Town of Medford, Mass.
Register of the Members of the “Artillery Corps, Washington Grays” of the City of Philadelphia who Served in the War of the Rebellion, Volumes 1-2
Relics of Ye Olden Days in Salem County, New Jersey
Reminiscences of Candia [New Hampshire]
Reminiscences of Randolph County, [North Carolina]
Reminiscences of the District of Columbia
Reminiscences of the Past Sixty Years [North Carolina; South Carolina]
Reminiscences of Worcester [Massachusetts]
Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court in the State of Vermont, Volume 24
Representative Men and Old Families of Southeastern Massachusetts
Reunion Celebration Together with an Historical Sketch of Peru, Bennington County, Vermont
Revised History of Harlem (City of New York): Its Origin and Early Annals
Revised Register of the Soldiers and Sailors of New Hampshire in the War of Rebellion, 1861-1865
Revolutionary Pension Declarations, Stafford County, [New Hampshire] 1820-1832
Rhode Island Court Records; Records of the Court of Trials of the Colony of Providence Plantations 1647-1662
Rhode Island Privateers in King George’s War 1739-1748
Rhode’s Berks County Grange Directory: List of Officers and Members
Rochester and Monroe County, New York
Rockaway Records of Morris County, N.J., Families: Cemetery Records, Church Records, Military Records, Local History, Genealogies of Old Families
Roster of Nebraska Volunteers From 1861 to 1869
Roster of North Carolina Troops in the War Between the States
Roster of North Carolina Volunteers in the Spanish American War, 1898-1899
Roster of Ohio Soldiers in the War of 1812, Volumes 1-3
Roster of Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines of the War of 1812, The Mexican War, and the War of the Rebellion Residing in Nebraska
Roster of Survivors of the Seventh Michigan Cavalry and Muster out Rolls of the Regiment, Volumes 1-2
Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865
Second Edition History of New Paltz, New York and Its Old Families (from 1678 to 1820)
Sherborn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts – Past and Present
Sketches of Monroe and Union County [North Carolina]
Sketches of the Old Inhabitants and Other Citizens of Old Springfield [Massachusetts] of the Present Century
Southold Town Records and Explanatory Notes [New York] Volumes 1-2
State of New Jersey Index of Wills, Inventories, etc.
Suffolk County [Massachusetts] Bar Book: 1770-1805
Supplement to the Register of the Massachusetts Society of Colonial Dames of America, 1905-1909
Supplementary List of Marriage Licenses [New York]
Tax Lists of the Town of Providence During the Administration of Sir Edmund Andros and His Council 1686-1689
The Documentary History of the State of New-York
The First Book of Records of the Town of Southampton [New York]: with Other Ancient Documents of Historic Value
The Hard Case of the Founder of Old Hampton: Wrongs of Rev. Stephen Bachiller, Read at the Reunion of the Bachelder Family
The History of Nantucket County, Island and Town [Massachusetts]
The History of Ohio: From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time
The History of Orangeburg County, South Carolina
The History of Pittsylvania County, Virginia
The History of Putnam County, N.Y.
The History of the Town of Dummerston [Vermont]
The History of Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Volumes 1-2
The Moravian Graveyard at Nazareth, PA
The Newspaper Press of Charleston, SC: A Chronological and Biographical History
The Official Roster of the Soldiers of the American Revolution Buried in the State of Ohio, Volumes 1-2
The Old Dutch Burying Ground of Sleepy Hollow [New York]
The Old Kaskaskia [Illinois] Records
The Old Rockingham Meeting House, Erected 1787 and the First Church in Rockingham, Vermont, 1773-1840
The Proprietors' Records of the Town of Lunenburg, Massachusetts
The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, Volumes 1, 3-16
The Records of New Amsterdam from 1653 to 1674 Anno Domini
The Records of Oxford, Mass.
The Records of the Original Proceedings of the Ohio Company [Ohio]
The Records of the Town of Hanover, New Hampshire, 1761-1818
The Red Book of Syracuse and Onondaga County [New York]
The Refugees of 1776 from Long Island to Connecticut
The Roll of Honor of the Seventeenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, or, One Hundred and Sixty-Second of the Line, Pennsylvania Volunteers
The Romance of Davis Mountains and Big Bend Country [Texas]
The Site of the Wessagusset Settlement of 1622 at Weymouth, Massachusetts, Volumes 1-2
The Sixth Volume of Records of Southampton, LI, NY
The Story of Gloucester, Massachusetts
The Town of Roxbury [Massachusetts]; Its Memorable Persons and Places
The Wealthy Men and Women of Brooklyn and Williamsburgh [New York]
Tombstone Records, Stanly County, N.C.
Trenton’s Newspapers [New Jersey]. 1778-1932
Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Settlement of Newbury [Massachusetts]
Ulster County, N.Y. Probate Records
Vermont Pension Roll (Revolutionary War)
Virginia Wills Before 1799
Warner's History of Dakota County, Nebraska
Westchester County in History: Manual and Civil List, Past and Present, County History, Towns, Hamlets, Villages and Cities, 1683-1912
Westchester County New York
Westerley (Rhode Island) and Its Witnesses
Western North Carolina, Historical and Biographical
Westmoreland County, Virginia
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