BOOKS
Bell, Edward L. Persistence of Memories of Slavery and Emancipation in Historical Andover: The Massachusetts Woman Enumerated as a “slave” in the 1830 U.S. Census and the Family of Rosanna Coburn from Enslavement to Contingent Freedom. Shawsheen Press, 2021.
Bell, J.L.. The Road to Concord: How Four Stolen Cannon Ignited the Revolutionary War. Yardley, PA: Westholme Publishing, 2016
Bohy, Joel, and Douglas D. Scott. Bullet Strikes: From the First Day of the American Revolution. Woonsocket, RI: Andrew Mowbray Inc., Publishers, 2025.
Bolster, W. Jeffrey. Black Jacks. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998
Booth, Robert. Death of an Empire: The Rise and Murderous Fall of Salem, America’s Richest City. New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2011.
Cain, Alexander. I See Nothing But the Horrors of a Civil War. Independently Published, 2019.
Cain, Alexander. We Stood Our Ground: Lexington in the First Year of the American Revolution. Independently Published 2014. Revised and retitled We Stood Our Ground: 250th Anniversary of the Battle of Lexington Edition, Independently Published, 2025.
Dolin, Eric Jay. Rebels at Sea : Privateering in the American Revolution. New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2022.
Endicott, C M.. Account of Leslie’s retreat at the North bridge in Salem. Salem, Mass.: W. Ives & G. W. Pease, printers, 1856.
Fowler, William M. Rebels Under Sail: the American Navy during the American Revolution Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, NY. 1976
Hoffer, Peter Charles. Prelude to Revolution: The Salem Gunpowder Rail of 1775. The John Hopkins University Press.2013
Holton, Woody. Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution New York: Simon & Schuster, 2021.
Howe, Octavius. Beverly Privateers of the American Revolution. Cambridge, J. Wilson & Sons, 1922. (Available on Internet Archive).
Morrison, Dane. True Yankees: The South Seas and the Discovery of American Identity. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.
Norton, Mary Beth. The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750–1800. 1980: Cornell University Press. Original Publication 1980. Republished with an essay by the author.
Norton, Mary Beth. 1774: The Long Year of Revolution. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Groups, 2021.
Tagney, Ronald N. The World Turned Upside Down: Essex County During America’s Turbulent Years, 1763-1790. Madison: The University of Wisconsin, 1989.
Vickers, Daniel. Farmers & Fishermen: Two Centuries of Work in Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630-1850. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1994.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Howell, William Huntting. “Entering the Lists: The Politics of Ephemera in Eastern Massachusetts, 1774.” Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 9 no. 1, 2011, p. 187-217. Project MUSE
ON-LINE RESOURCES
http://genealogytrails.com/mass/essex/revolutionary_list.html
Massachusetts Privateers of the Revolution, by Gardner Weld Allen
PRIMARY SOURCE COLLECTIONS
Maas, David E., editor Divided Hearts, Massachusetts Loyalists 1765-1790: A Biographical Directory. The Society of Colonial Wars the Commonwealth of Massachusetts & The New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1980.
