BIBLIOGRAPHY

General:

Bradford, History of Plymouth Plantation (Mass. Hist. Soc. ed. 1912). Simeon L. Deyo (editor), History of Barnstable County, Mass. (N.Y., 1890). Dean Dudley, Historical Sketches of Towns in Plymouth and Barnstable Counties, Mass. (Boston, 1873). Frederick Freeman, History of Cape Cod (Boston, 1858; printed for the author). John Abbot Goodwin, The Pilgrim Republic (Boston, 1888). Samuel Eliot Morison, Maritime History of Massachusetts (Boston, 1921). Mourt’s Relation (H. M. Dexter ed., Boston, 1865). Amos Otis, Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families (Barnstable, 1888). Population and Resources of Cape Cod (Mass. Dept. of Labor and Industries, Reprinted for the Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce, Boston, 1922). Charles F. Swift, Cape Cod (Yarmouth, 1897). Alexander Young, Chronicles of the Pilgrim Fathers of the Colony of Plymouth etc. (Boston, 1841). Files of the Barnstable Patriot and the Yarmouth Register.

Town Histories:

Charles W. Jenkins, Three Lectures on the Early History of Falmouth (Falmouth, 1889). Herman A. Jennings, Chequocket or Coatuit: The Aboriginal Name of Provincetown (Yarmouthport, 1885). Everett I. Nye, History of Wellfleet (Hyannis, 1920). Rev. Enoch Pratt, A Comprehensive History, Ecclesiastical and Civil, of Eastham, Wellfleet and Orleans etc. (Yarmouth, 1844). Shebnah Rich, Truro, Cape Cod, or Land Marks and Sea Marks (Boston, 1884). Rev. Nancy W. Paine Smith, The Provincetown Book (Brockton, 1922). William C. Smith, A History of Chatham, Mass. (Hyannis, 1909-1913). Charles F. Swift, Old Yarmouth (Yarmouthport, 1884). The Town Records and Proprietors’ Records of all towns on the Cape.

For additional information regarding:

Geology and Changes in Coastline:

Prof. Albert Perry Brigham, Cape Cod and the Old Colony (N.Y., 1920) which I have followed very closely. Prof. Nathaniel Shaler, Geology of the Cape District (from 18th Annual Report of U.S. Geological Survey, 1896-97). Henry Mitchell’s Article and Charts on Monomoy (U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, 1886). Amos Otis, Discovery of an Ancient Ship (re-printed from New Eng. Hist. & Geneal. Register, Albany, 1864). Mass. Magazine, Vol. III, 1791. Timothy Dwight’s Travels, Vol. III.

Indians:

Pub. of Col. Soc. of Mass., 1911-13, Vol. 14, Transactions. Winslow’s Good Newes. Smithsonian Report for 1883, Notes on Wampanoag Indians, by Henry E. Chase. Purchas His Pilgrimes, III, XIX (Glasgow, 1906). M.H.S. Proceedings, XXIV. Mary Farwell Ayer, Richard Bourne, Missionary to the Mashpee Indians (Boston, 1908). Timothy Alden, Collection of American Epitaphs and Inscriptions (N.Y., 1814). Jedidiah Morse, Indian Report, 1820. Hearing before Comm. on Indians at Mashpee, Feb. 9, 1869 (House, No. 502). 1 M.H.S. Coll. V; 2 M.H.S. Coll. III; 1 M.H.S. Coll. I; 1 M.H.S. Coll. VIII; 4 M.H.S. Coll. V; 1 M.H.S. Coll. X; 1 M.H.S. Coll. VI.

Explorers:

Capt. John Smith, Works, Part II, 696 ff. (Edward Arber, ed., Westminster, 1895). Sam’l Champlain, Voyages (Prince Soc. ed. Boston, 1880). James Rosier’s Narrative, 3 M.H.S. Coll. VIII. Purchas His Pilgrimes, III (Glasgow, 1906). Mourt’s Relation (H. M. Dexter, ed., Boston, 1865). B. F. DeCosta, Cavo de Baros, or the Place of Cape Cod in the Old Cartography (N.Y., 1881). All but the last of these contain also valuable information on the early coastline and the Indians.

The First Settlers and Life in the Colonial Period:

Official Proceedings of the Quarter Millennial Celebration of Sandwich and Bourne (Falmouth, 1890). J. H. Benton, Warning Out in New England (Boston, 1911). Geo. H. Moore, Notes on Hist. of Slavery in Mass. (N.Y., 1866). Plym. Col. Rec. V. 173 f; VI, 15; IX, 71. Barnstable Probate Rec. IX, 6; VIII, 473; XIII, 490; IV, 549 f; etc., etc. Daniel Wing, Old Cape Cod Windmills (Library of C. Cod Hist. & Geneal., No. 14, C. W. Swift, Yarmouthport). James Brown Scott, Robert Bacon, Life and Letters (N.Y. 1923). Timothy Alden, Memorabilia of Yarmouth (1 M.H.S. Coll. V). Roy H. Akagi, The Town Proprietors of the New England Colonies (U. of Penn. Press, 1924). Edwin Crowell, A History of Barrington Township and Vicinity, Shelburne Co., Nova Scotia, 1604-1870. Diary of Sam’l Sewall (5 M.H.S. Coll. VI). William H. Whitmore, Origin of Names of Towns in Mass. (M.H.S. Proc., Vol. 12). John W. Dodge, Hist. of First Cong. Ch., Yarmouth, Mass. (Yarmouthport, 1873). Yarmouth Register, March 9, 1837.

Revolution:

Wm. Tudor, Life of James Otis (Boston, 1823). MS. Diary of Benj. Percival, of Sandwich. M.H.S. Proc., Vols. 16 & 23. Augustus C. Buell, Paul Jones, Founder of the American Navy (N.Y., 1903). Francis Tiffany Bowles, The Loyalty of Barnstable in the Revolution (Pub. of Col. Soc. Mass., Vol. XXV). Gardner Allen, Mass. Privateers in Revolution (M.H.S. Coll., Vol. 77. 1927). Diary of Wm. Russell in Old Mill Prison, Jan. 22, 1781 (quoted by Frederick W. Snow in pamph., Snowden, Orleans, Mass., privately printed). Publications of Naval Hist. Soc., Vol. III, 1913. E. A. Grozier, The Wreck of the Somerset (Provincetown, 1887).

Revolution to Civil War Ashore:

MS. Papers of Capt. Job Chase. Thomas F. Hall, Shipbuilding in East Dennis (Lib. of C. Cod Hist. & Geneal. No. 11, C. F. Swift, Yarmouthport, 1925). Constitution and By-Laws of the Barnstable Lyceum (Barnstable, 1824). Address Delivered before the Brewster Lyceum, 1836 (Barnstable, 1836). Half-Centennial Celebration of the Yarmouth Institute (Yarmouthport, 1893). Commonwealth of Mass. Report of Commissioners on Cape Cod and East Harbors, Jan. 5, 1853 (Senate No. 6) and Jan. 16, 1854 (Senate No. 5). Report of Committee on C. Cod Harbor, 1857 (Public Doc. No. 36). Report of Commissioners on Provincetown Dike 1872 (Senate No. 5). Senate Report on Condition of Province Lands, Jan. 1838 (Senate No. 6).

Whaling:

Alex. Starbuck, Hist. of Amer. Whale Fishery etc. (appended to report of U.S. Commission on Fisheries for 1875-76). John R. Spears, The Story of the New England Whalers (N.Y., 1922). Chas. B. Hawes, Whaling (N.Y., 1924). Kendall, Travels. Pub. of Col. Soc. of Mass. Transactions, 1904-06, Vol. X. M.H.S. Proc., Vol. 43. John A. Cook, Pursuing the Whale (Boston, 1926). B. L. Shurtleff, Songs at Anchor (privately printed, 1922).

Fisheries:

M.H.S. Coll., VIII. MS. notes on Wellfleet vessels, found among papers of late Everett I. Nye of Wellfleet. MS. recording bounties paid on porpoise tails. Geo. W. Field, Report on Shellfisheries of Mass., in 41st annual report of the Commission of Fisheries and Game. David L. Belding, Report upon the Scallop Fisheries of Mass. for the Commonwealth of Mass., Boston, 1910. Thoreau, Cape Cod. Winthrop L. Marvin, The American Merchant Marine (N.Y., 1919).

Storms, Wrecks, Etc.

Alexander Young, Chronicles of Massachusetts. Autobiography of Zachary G. Lamson (Boston, 1908). Dow and Edmonds, Pirates of the New England Coast (Salem, 1923). Bliss Perry, The Heart of Emerson’s Journals (Boston, 1926). Accounts of Shipwreck, by a Friend of Seamen (Brunswick, Me., 1823). J. W. Dalton, The Lifesavers of Cape Cod (Boston, 1902). James Freeman, A Description of the East Coast of Cape Cod etc., etc. (Boston, 1802). Elegy on the Death of Capt. Isaiah Knowles and his crew etc., etc. (contemporary broadside, 1806). I. Morton Small, Shipwrecks on Cape Cod (No. Truro, 1925).

The Merchant Marine:

Francis W. Sprague, Barnstable and Yarmouth Sea Capts. and Ship-Owners (privately printed, 1913). J. Henry Sears, Brewster Shipmasters (Yarmouthport, 1906). Octavius T. Howe & Fred’k C. Matthews, Amer. Clipper Ships, 1833-58 (Salem Marine Research Soc., 1926). Old Shipping Days in Boston (State St. Trust Co., Boston). Some Merchants and Sea Capts. of Old Boston (ditto). Other Merchants and Sea Capts. of Old Boston (ditto). F. W. Howay, John Kendrick and His Sons (Oregon Historical Quarterly, Vol. 23, No. 4, Dec., 1922). F. W. Howay, A Ballad of the North West Fur Trade (New England Quarterly, Vol. 1, No. 1, Jan., 1928). Chas. G. Loring, Memoir of Wm. Sturgis (M.H.S. Proc., VII). Elijah Cobb, a Cape Cod Skipper (Yale Univ. Press, 1925). Basil Lubbock, The Western Ocean Packets (Boston, 1925), Colonial Clippers (Glasgow, 1921). Arthur H. Clark, The Clipper Ship Era (N.Y., 1910). Samuel Eliot Morrison, The Old Merchant Marine (Landmark, Vol. V, No. 12, Dec., 1923).

Civil War:

Parker Pillsbury, In Memoriam, an address in memory of Capt. Prince S. Crowell, delivered in East Dennis, Dec. 11th, 1881 (Clague & Wegman, Rochester, N.Y.). R. B. Forbes, To the Naval and Military Committees (broadside in Harvard College Library).

The Church:

Reports of Cases in the Courts of Star Chamber and High Commission (Sam’l Rawson Gardiner, ed.; printed for the Camden Society). Proceedings and Result of an Ecclesiastical Council, ex-parte, which met at West Barnstable, Mass., 27th Oct., 1868, to advise in the case of Mr. Joseph Bodfish and Family (Boston, 1868). Nath’n’l Morton, New England’s Memorial (Boston, 1855). Declaration of Ministers in Barnstable Co. relating to the late Practise of Itinerant Preaching (Boston, 1745). Mortuary Record from the Gravestones in Old Burial Ground in Brewster (Chas. Mayo, ed., Yarmouthport, 1898). The Old Cemetery, Sandwich, Mass., a paper read before the Sandwich Hist. Soc., Oct. 20th, 1908. MS. Notes on the Barnstable Come-Outers. Cape Cod in Poetry, an Anthology, Joshua Freeman Crowell and Florence Hathaway Crowell, ed.

The Canal:

Numerous Arguments by S. W. McCall, E. C. Carrigan, Richard Olney, and Robt. M. Morse, Jr., delivered before various Legislative Committees relative to one Canal petitioner or another, 1887-91. J. W. Miller, Cape Cod and its Canal (1914). J. W. Dalton, The Cape Cod Canal (Sandwich, 1911). William Barclay Parsons, Cape Cod Canal, an address delivered before the Boston Chamber of Commerce May 25th, 1910. Senate, No. 241, 1883. Senate No. 218, April 9th, 1880. House, No. 459, 1882. Report of the Joint Committee of 1860 upon Proposed Canal etc., etc. (Pub. Doc. No. 41, printed, Boston, 1864). This volume is also extremely valuable for its statistics on shipwrecks. James Winthrop, Journal of a Survey in 1791 for a Canal across Cape Cod etc. (Boston Public Library Hist. MSS., No. 3, 1902). This journal is also interesting for overland travel before stage-coaches.