List of libraries in 18th-century Massachusetts explained
This is a list of libraries in 18th-century Massachusetts, North America. It includes subscription, rental, medical, church, and academic libraries. In general, it excludes book collections of private individuals.
- Boston
- Boylston, Massachusetts
- Social Library, Boylston Center (est.1792)[17]
- Bridgewater, Massachusetts
- Library in the East Precinct of Bridgewater[18]
- Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Concord, Massachusetts
- Charitable Library Society, Concord (est.1795)
- Dorchester, Massachusetts
- Douglas, Massachusetts
- Douglas Social Library Association (est.1799)
- Falmouth, Massachusetts
- First Congregational Church Library, Falmouth
- Franklin, Massachusetts
- Franklin Library (est.1786)[21]
- Groton, Massachusetts
- Groton First Parish Library (est.1793)
- Haverhill, Massachusetts
- Hingham, Massachusetts
- First Social Library, Hingham Centre (est.1771)
- Lancaster, Massachusetts
- Lancaster Library (est.1790)[23]
- Leicester, Massachusetts
- Leicester Social Library Company (est.1793)
- Leominster, Massachusetts
- Social Library, Leominster (est.1763)
- Lincoln, Massachusetts
- Lincoln Social Library (est.1798)[24] [25]
- Lunenburg, Massachusetts
- Lunenburg Social Library (est.1792)
- Marlborough, Massachusetts
- Social Library, Marlborough
- Medfield, Massachusetts
- Middleton, Massachusetts
- Social library, Middleton (est.1772)
- Newburyport, Massachusetts
- First Social Library, Newburyport[26]
- Newburyport Book-Store circulating library[27]
- Newburyport Library[28]
- George Jerry Osborne's circulating library, "at his shop, Guttemberg's Head" Newburyport[29]
- Newton, Massachusetts
- Newton Library Society[30]
- Oxford, Massachusetts
- Social Library, Oxford[31]
- Pittsfield, Massachusetts
- Pittsfield Library Society[32]
- Rowe, Massachusetts
- Rowe Social Library (est.1797)[33]
- Royalston, Massachusetts
- Library Company of Royalston (est.1778)
- Salem, Massachusetts
- Springfield, Massachusetts
- Springfield Library Company[39]
- Wareham, Massachusetts
- Wareham Social Library[40]
- Watertown, Massachusetts
- Union Library Society (est.1779)[41]
- Westford, Massachusetts
- Social library, Westford (est.1797)
- Williamstown, Massachusetts
- Worcester, Massachusetts
- Worcester Circulating Library Company[42]
- Worcester District Medical Library (est.1798)
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Notes and References
- Book: Fleet's pocket almanack ... calculated for the use of the state of Massachusetts-Bay . 1789 .
- "Found." The Minerva (Dedham, Massachusetts); Date: 12-06-1798
- New select catalogue of Benjamin Guild's circulating library : containing principally novels, voyages, travels, poetry, periodical publications, and books of entertainment. At the Boston Book-Store, no. 59, Cornhill. Boston: Printed for Benjamin Guild, 1789
- Merritt. 1917
- At present the Boston Athenaeum "houses the King's Chapel Collection of mostly 17th century theological works." http://www.bostonathenaeum.org/node/32 Retrieved 2010-12-17
- Catalogue of Martin's Circulating Library, at no. 45, Main-Street, Boston. Boston: Printed by Edmund Freeman, 1786
- Glowing testimonial about Martin's "Boston Circulating Library" from a "country customer" printed in the Independent Chronicle (Boston), reprinted in: New-Haven Gazette, 01-19-1786
- https://books.google.com/books?id=vz4RAAAAIAAJ Catalogue of books in the Massachusetts Historical Library
- Book: Fleet's pocket almanack ... calculated for the use of the state of Massachusetts-Bay . 1790 .
- Samuel A. Green. Portions of the Centennial Address before the Massachusetts Medical Society, June 7, 1881. Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, June 8, 1881.
- A catalogue of Mein's Circulating Library; : consisting of above twelve hundred volumes, in most branches of polite literature, arts and sciences; viz. history, voyages, travels, lives, memoirs, antiquities, philosophy, novels, divinity, physic, surgery, anatomy, arts, sciences, plays, poetry, husbandry, navigation, gardening, mathematics, laws, &c. &c. &c. : Which are lent to read, at one pound eight shillings, lawful money, per year; eighteen shillings per half-year; or, ten and eight pence per quarter; by John Mein, bookseller at the London Book-Store, second door above the British Coffee-House, north-side of King-Street, Boston. Boston: : Printed [by M'Alpine and Fleeming], 1765
- The collection of Thomas Prince now resides in the Boston Public Library. Web site: Boston Public Library . 2010-12-17 . dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20101120161720/http://bpl.org/research/rb/collections.htm . 2010-11-20 .
- https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7049729M/Catalogue_of_the_collection_of_books_and_manuscripts_which_formerly_belonged_to_the_Rev._Thomas_Prince_and_was_by_him_bequeathed_to_the_Old_South_Church_and_is_now_deposited_in_the_Public_Library_of_the_City_of_Boston. Catalogue of the collection of books and manuscripts which formerly belonged to the Rev. Thomas Prince
- Harrison . Joseph Leroy . 1894 . The public library movement in the United States . New England Magazine . 10:6 . 2010-12-08 .
- Michael J. Canavan . The Old Boston Public Library, 1656-1747. . Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts . March 1980 .
- Book: Town's library . https://archive.org/stream/recordsrelatingt11bost#page/n5/mode/2up . Records of the Boston Selectmen 1701-1715 .
- Crane . Ellery Bicknell . 1908 . What our New England forefathers had to read . Proceedings of the Worcester Society of Antiquity . 23 . 2010-12-08 .
- Book: Report of the Free Public Library Commission of Massachusetts . 1899 . 2010-12-07 .
- Catalogus, eorum qui in Collegio Harvardino, quod est Cantabrigiæ Nov-Anglorum, ab anno 1642. ad annum 1700
- Rules and orders of the Dorchester Library : with a catalogue of the books, August, MDCCXCIV. Boston : By I. Thomas and E.T. Andrews, Faust's Statue, no. 45, Newbury Street, 1794
- Web site: History of the Franklin Public Library .
- Rules and regulations of Haverhill Library, 1796. Early American Imprints, Series 1, no. 47800
- Book: Shera . Foundations of the public library: the origins of the public library movement in New England, 1629-1855 . 1949 . 2010-12-07 .
- Web site: Lincoln Public Library .
- https://archive.org/details/proceedingsatde00librgoog Proceedings at the dedication of the Lincoln Library, Massachusetts
- Newburyport_Herald.; Date: 12-31-1799
- Impartial Herald (Newburyport, Massachusetts); Date: 10-24-1797
- A catalogue of books in the Newburyport Library (Newburyport, Mass. : Blunt and March, 1795). The constitution and catalogue of books, of the Newburyport Library (Newburyport [Mass.] : printed by Edmund M. Blunt, 1797)
- Essex Journal(Newburyport, Massachusetts); Date: 06-13-1792
- Constitution of the Newton Library Society, 1799. Early American Imprints, Series 1, no. 48949
- George Fisher Daniels. History of the town of Oxford, Massachusetts: with genealogies and notes on persons and estates, Volume 1. Pub. by the author with the cooperation of the town, 1892
- Berkshire Gazette (Pittsfield, Massachusetts); Date: 03-28-1798
- Book: Report of the Free Public Library Commission of Massachusetts . 1891 . 2010-12-07 .
- Salem_Gazette; Date: 08-20-1793
- Catalogue of books, for sale or circulation, in town or country, by John Dabney, at his book and stationary store, and circulating library, in Salem. [Salem, Mass.] : Printed [by Thomas C. Cushing] for J. Dabney, 1791
- Cynthia B. Wiggin. "Salem Athenaeum." Journal of Library History; 1968, Vol. 3 Issue 3, p257-260
- Essex Gazette.; Date: From Tuesday, September 12, to Tuesday, September 19, 1769
- Bylaws and regulations of the incorporated proprietors of the Social Library in Salem. 1797
- Catalogue of books, belonging to the Springfield Library Company, April, 1796. Springfield, Mass. : Printed by Francis Stebbins, 1796
- Catalogue of books, belonging to Wareham Social Library, 1798. Newbedford, Mass. : By J. Spooner, for the proprietors, 1798
- Web site: Watertown Public Library . 2010-12-08 . https://swap.stanford.edu/20090627174941/http://www.watertownlib.org/about/default.asp . 2009-06-27 . dead .
- Rules and regulations of the Worcester Associate Library Company. 1793
