History of Billerica, Massachusetts Online

I lived in Billerica for many years and have an original copy of the definitive history of the town, written in 1883 by Henry Allen Hazen. The complete name of the book is the History of Billerica, Massachusetts, with a Genealogical Register. Indeed, the back of the book lists almost every resident of the town from its incorporation in 1655 up to the date of the book's printing: 1883.

The entire book is now available online on Archive.org. You may look at it or even download it and save it on your hard drive. You can print a few pages or even the entire book, if you wish. It is available in ASCII text, PDF, and several other formats.

The same book is also available on Google Books, although in fewer formats. It is also available on eBooksRead.com.

This is just one example of what makes the Internet so valuable to genealogists! Each of us now has an extensive library available in our homes, available twenty-four hours a day. I don't remember what I paid for the original 1883 publication but it certainly wasn't free. Nowadays, we can all read, print, and even save, this valuable book free of charge.

The History of Billerica, Massachusetts, with a Genealogical Register is now available at: http://www.archive.org/details/historyofbilleri00hazen.

The surnames listed in the book include:

Abbot, Adams, Alexander, Alger, Allen, Alpaugh, Amks, Andrews, Annable, Atherton, Atkinson, Atwood, Austin, Avery, Babbitt, Bachiler, Bacon, Badger, Bailey, Baker, Balch, Baldwin, Balkam, Ballard, Ballister, Ballon, Bancroft, Bange, Barker, Barnard, Barnes, Barr, Barrett, Barron, Bartlett, Barton, Batchelder, Batcheller, Bateman, Bates, Bean, Beard, Belcher, Belknap, Bell, Bemmis, Benjamin, Bennett, Bibbe

Bigelow, Bigsby, Billings, Bingham, Bird, Births, Blaisdell, Blake, Blanchard, Bliss, Blodgett, Blood, Blunt, Boardman, Bock, Bohonan, Boies, Bolton, Bond, Bonner, Bosworth, Bowers, Bowman, Boyden, Boynton, Bradford, Bradley, Bray, Breck, Breed, Bridge, Briggs, Brigham, Britton, Brooks, Brown, Bryant, Buck, Bullard, Bullen, Burbank, Burchstead, Burge, Burnap, Burnham, Burrage, Burridge, Burt, Bushby

Bussey, Butler, Butterfield, Butters, Caldwell, Call, Callender, Campbell, Campble, Capen, Carey, Carkin, Carleton, Carpenter, Carr, Carrell, Carter, Cary, Case, Chaffin, Chalwell, Cahmberlin, Champney, Chandler, Chapman, Chase, Cheever, Chester, Child, Chipman, Chisholm, Christe, Clark, Clement, Cleveland, Clewly, Cloyes, Coats, Cobb, Coburn, Coffin, Coggin, Colburn, Colby, Cole, Colson, Colwell, Conant, Conella

Conray, Converse, Cook, Coolidge, Cooper, Corey, Costello, Cowdry, Coytmore, Craig, Cram, Cranch, Cromwell, Crosby, Crosett, Cross, Cumings, Currier, Curtis, Cushing, Cutler, Cutting, Daland, Damon, Dana, Dane, Danforth, Daniel, Daniels, Davidson, Davis, Dawes, Dean, Dearborn, DeCamp, Demercy, Denison, Dennis, Derby, Dickason, Dickey, Dilno, Ditson, Dix, Dodge, Douglass, Dowse, Draper, Drew, Driver

Dudley, Dulgar, Dummer, Duncklee, Dunkin, Dunster, Dunton, Duren, Durick, Durrent, Dutch, Dutton, Eames, Early, Easte, Eastman, Easty, Eaton, Edes, Edwards, Elder, Eliot, Ellenwood, Ellice, Ellis, Emery, Emerson, Emmons, Estabrooks, Everett, Farley, Farmer, Farnsworth, Farnum, Farwell, Fassett, Fay, Felch, Fellows, Felton, Ferrin, Fessenden, Field, Fifield, Fisher, Fiske, Fitch, flagg, Fleming, Fletcher, Flint, Floyd

Follansbee, Folsom, Foote, Forbush, Forgison, Fosdick, Foster, Fowle, Fowler, Fox, Frances, Franksford, Freeman, French, Frost, Frothingham, Frye, Fuller, Gage, Gallup, Gardner, Gary, Gaskell, Gates, Geary, Gerrish, Gibson, Giles, Gilson, Gleason, Gloyd, Godfrey, Going, Gold, Goldsmith, Goodhue, Goodnow, Goodrich, Goodwin, Gookin, Gorham, Gorrell, Gorton, Goss, Gould, Gove, Gowen, Gragg, Granger, Grant, Graves

Gray, Green, Greenland, Greenlaw, Griggs, Grimes, Grover, Grush, Gurney, Hadley, Haggitt, Hale, Haley, Hall, Hamilton, Hamlet, Hanaford, Hancock, Harding, Hardy, Harnden, Harper, Harrington, Harris, Harrod, Hart, Hartwell, Harvey, Harwood, Haskell, Hastings, Hatch, Hawes, Hawthorne, Hayden, Haynes, Hayward, Hazeltine, Heald, Henchman, Henry, Hentz, Herrick, Heywood, Hickel, Hildreth, Hill, Hills

Hilton, Hinckly, Hinds, Hinson, Hobart, Hobson, Hodgman, Holbrook, Holden, Holman, Holmes, Holt, Holton, Homer, Homes, Hooker, Hooper, Hosley, Hosmer, Housley, Hovey, Howard, Howe, Howlett, Hoyt, Hubbard, Huddleston, Huit, Humphrey, Hunnewell, Hunt, Huse, Hutchins, Hutchinson, Hyde, Ince, Ingalls, Ingersoll, Ingles, Ireland, Jaco, Jacques, Janes, Jaquish, Jaquith, Jefts, Jenkins, Jennison, Jewell

Jewett, Jockow, Johnson, Jones, Jordan, Judson, Karkin, Keasberry, Kemmel, Kemp, Kendall, Kendrick, Kennedy, Kent, Kettle, Keyes, Kibber, Kidder, Kimball, King, Kingsbury, Kinney, Kittredge, Knapp, Knowles, Labaree, Lake, Lambert, Lamon, Lane, Lang, Lapham, Larkum, Lathrop, Law, Lawrence, Lawton, Leach, Learned, Leavitt, Lee, Leighton, Leonard, Levistone, Lewis, Lincoln, Little, Littlefield, Livermore

Livingston, Locke, Lombard, Long, Lovejoy, Lovering, Lovewell, Low, Lowell, Lufkin, Lund, Lunt, Luscombe, Lyman, Lynde, Lyon, Mace, Mann, Manning, Mansfield, Mansur, March, Marshall, Marston, Martin, Mason, Masterman, Matthews, Maynard, McCarty, McDonald, McIntire, McKee, McKeen, McKenzie, McLean, McPherson, Mead, Mears, Meldrum, Melvin, Merriam, Merrill, Merrow, Miles, Miller, Milliken, Mills, Minot

Mixer, Moffatt, Monroe, Mooar, Moody, Moore, Mores, Morgan, Morrill, Morse, Morton, Munroe, Murdock, Murray, Muston, Muzzy, Myrick, Neal, Needham, Newell, Newman, Newton, Nichols, Nickles, Nixon, Norris, Norton, Nourse, Noyes, Nurse, Nutting, Ober, Olcott, Ordway, Orne, Osban, Osborn, Osgood, Page, Paine, Palmer, Park, Parker, Parkhurst, Parsons, Parry, Patch, Paterson, Patio, Peabody, Pearson, Peirce

Penniman, Perkins, Perry, Pettengill, Phelps, Phillips, Phillpot, Pierce, Pillsbury, Pitman, Plumer, Pollard, Polley, Poodney, Poor, Porter, Powers, Pratt, Prentice, Prescott, Prichard, Priest, Prince, Proctor, Puffer, Punchard, Putnam, Putney, Pye, Ramsey, Rand, Randall, Rawson, Reed, Remick, Renox, Reynor, Rice, Richards, Richardson, Ripley, Rixey, Robbins, Roberts, Robey, Robinson, Rogers, Rollins, Ross

Roundy, Rowe, Rowell, Ruggles, Russ, Russell, Rust, Safford, Sage, Salter, Sanborn, Sanders, Sargent, Saunderson, Savils, Sawin, Sawyer, Scammon, Schouler, Seaman, Searles, Sedman, Seger, Sessions, Sewall, Sharp, Shattuck, Shed, Sheldon, Shepard, Sherman, Shumway, Simmons, Simms, Simonds, Simpkins, Simpson, Skinner, Sleeper, Sloan, Smith, Snow, Somes, Spalding, Spencer, Spofford, Sprague, Stanly

Staples, Stearns, Stedman, Steele, Stephens, Stevens, Stevenson, Stewart, St. John, Stone, Stowell, Stowers, Straw, Strong, Sumner, Swan, Swallow, Sweetzer, Swift, Symms, Taft, Taintor, Talbot, Tapleafe, Tappan, Targett, Tay, Taylor, Teel, Temple, Tenney, Thacher, Thistle, Thompson, Thorndike, Thurston, Tibbetts, Tidd, Tinkham, Todd, Tompson, Towne, Townsend, Trask, Treat, Trowbridge, Trull, Trussell, Tufts

Tupper, Turner, Tutein, Tweed, Twiss, Tyler, Underwood, Upton, Usher, Wait, Waldo, Walker, Ward, Warner, Warren, Washburn, Wason, Waters, Watkins, Waugh, Webber, Webster, Weld, Welch, Wentworth, Wesson, Weston, Wetherbee, Wheat, Wheeler, Whipple, Whitcomb, White, Whitford, Whiting, Whitman, Whitmore, Whitney, Whittaker, Whittemore, Whitwell, Wight, Wild, Wilkins, Willard, Williams

Wilson, Winchester, Winn, Winship, Winthrop, Wiswall, Wood, Woodbridge, Woods, Woodward, Woodworth, Wooster, Worcester, Wormwood, Wright, Wyers, Wyman, Yantis, York

Comments

[Connie Radde]

Thank you for the information on the History of Billerica, MA, which is now available on-line. Robert Blood and Simon Willard, my eighth and ninth grandfathers, respectively, are both mentioned in this book. The details will help flesh out the genealogy of the Blood family.

Connie Radde3

[Billerica Historical Society]

Another alternative to the online download version would be to purchase the actual book. It's packed with so much information
and is often easier to read. This book helps to support our historical society and anyone interested in purchasing the 2005
reprinted, 350th anniversary edition of the book can contact us
via email Billericahistorical@verizon.net.

[Howard Bybee]

Also available - http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/FH19&CISOPTR=46267&CISOSHOW=45719 Evidently well duplicated on the web.