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  Mark Dewey Research Center

​PUBLICATIONS CENTERED on SHEFFIELD HISTORY


* Still in print and available from The Society.

Bradford, James, A Review of the Past. A Sermon, Delivered at Sheffield on the First Sabbath in January, 1839 with Reference to the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Author’s Settlement in that Place, pp. 47, Phineas Allen and Son, 1839

*Chase, Arthur C., The Ashleys. A Pioneer Berkshire Family, pp. 41, The Trustees of Reservations, 1971

*Chase, Arthur C., illustrated by Thomas W. Orlando, All This Freedom Talk. A Play, pp. 51, Sheffield Historical Society, 1976

Coenen, Christopher and the Sheffield 250th Anniversary Committee, Sheffield 1733-1983 A Pictorial Recollection, pp. 134, Sheffield 250th Anniversary Committee, 1983

* Drew, Bernard A., If They Close the Door on You, Go in the Window. Origins of the African Community in Sheffield, Great Barrington, & Stockbridge, pp. 128, The Sheffield Historical Society and The Trustees of Reservations, 2004

*Drew, Bernard A., Spend a Summer in Sheffield & Environs. The Tourism Trade in the Railroad Era, pp. 60, Sheffield Historical Society, 2002

Gillooly, Bill, John Ten Eyck the Sheffield Murderer, pp. 48, Quick Print,1983

Hoogs, Cynthia Tryon, Sheffield, Massachusetts Cemetery Inscriptions, pp. 189, privately Printed, 1987

*Levinson, David, Editor, African American Heritage In the Upper Housatonic Valley, pp. 230, Berkshire Publishing Group, 2006

*Levinson, David and Emilie Piper, On the Other Side of Glory. The Berkshire Men of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, pp. 194, Upper Housatonic Valley African American Heritage Trail, 2011

*Miller, James R., Early Life in Sheffield Berkshire County Massachusetts. A portrait of its ordinary people from settlement to 1860, pp. 152, Sheffield Historical Society, 2002

Paulin, Michael, The Ballad of Daniel Shays, pp. 118, The Transcript Press, 1986

*Preiss, Lillian E., Sheffield, Frontier Town, pp. 188, Sheffield Bicentennial Committee, 1976

Secretaries of the Committee Appointed by the Town, Centennial Celebration of the Town of Sheffield, Berkshire Co., Mass. June 18th and 19th , 1876, pp. 103, Secretaries of the Committee Appointed by the Town, 1876

Wilds, Mary, Mumbet: The Life and Times of Elizabeth Freeman, pp. 104, Avisson Press, 1999




ACCOUNT BOOKS, DAY BOOKS and other accountings

Andrews, Giles, poor farm manager, merchant and related business, agriculture and related business (photocopy), ca. 1808-1840

Ashley General Store Invoices, merchant and related business, 1795-1798

Boardman, Dwight, Settlement of Estate of Franklin Spurr, 1890-1891

Brewer, George, agriculture, Account Book, 1906-1913

Cowles, _____, agriculture and related business, Day Book, ca. 1820’s

Cowles, Correll, agriculture and related business, Account Book, 1830’s and 1840’s

Cowles, Correll, agriculture and related business, Account Book, 1852-1866

Curtiss, Franklin, agriculture and business, Day Book, 1862-1872

Ferris, Samuel, agriculture and related business, Account Book (photocopy). ca. 1830

Ferris, Samuel, agriculture and related business, Day Book, 1836-1848

French, Cyrus, merchant, Day Book No. 2, 1873

Graham, Jonathan B., blacksmithing, Vol. No. 1, 1848-1870; Vol. No. 2, 1870-1888

O’Connell, W[illiam] D. ( probably), blacksmithing, Account Book, 1859-1919

O’Connell, W[illiam] D., blacksmithing, Account Book, 1903-1908

O’Connell, W[illiam] D., blacksmithing and related business, Day Book, 1906-1909

O’Connell, W[illiam] D., blacksmithing, Account Book, ca. 1910

O’Connell, W[illiam] D., blacksmithing, Day Book, 1916-1917

O’Connell, W[illiam] D., blacksmithing, Day Book, 1917-1919

Roys family (various), business, agriculture and related, 1844-1869; 1851-1855; 1874-1877; 1875-1889; 1911-1930

Smith, J[ohn] [Malloy], business of painting and decorating, 1866-1867

Thorpe, Albert, agriculture and related (photocopy), ca. 1794-1840

Ward, John, agriculture and related, Account Book, 1815-1832

Ward, John, agriculture and related, Account Book, 1815-1837

Ward, John, agriculture and related, Account Book (photocopy), ca. 1818-1838

Verplanct, Eliza F. Verplanct Richards, family expenses, 1906-1907



DIARIES and JOURNALS


Barnard, John, Captain Barnard’s Report to Colonel John Totten on Defenses in Florida, June 22, 1846

Le Geyt, Maud Stevens, Daily Farm Log, 1928-1951

Moore, Pliny, Drinking Journal, 1774

Sage, Eliza, diary, 1879 and 1880
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