RESEARCH and REFERENCE CATALOGUE of THE SHEFFIELD HISTORICAL SOCIETY,
MARK DEWEY RESEARCH CENTER
MARK DEWEY RESEARCH CENTER
CEMETERY INSCRIPTIONS, BURIAL and DEATH RECORDS
Connecticut Towns
Avon, Brookfield, Canaan, Farmington, Glastonbury, Goshen, Granby, Litchfield, Monterey, Morris, Norwalk, Preston, Salisbury, Sharon
Massachusetts Towns
Alford, Egremont, Grafton, Great Barrington, Monterey, Mount Washington, New Marlborough, Provincetown, Rutland, Sandisfield (partial), Sheffield (Major cemeteries numbering 18, plus family burial plots and unknown burials based on research and death announcements)
New York Towns
Amenia, Austerlitz, Hudson (partial), North East (under Sharon, Ct.), Sleepy Hollow
CHURCH HISTORIES (miscellaneous books, pamphlets, publications, records, etc.)
Baptist
Catholic, Our Lady of the Valley
Colored Southern Berkshire Holiness Society of New Guinea
Episcopal, Christ Church Episcopal and Trinity Lutheran
Methodist Episcopal, Ashley Falls
Methodist Episcopal, Sheffield
DEEDS, 18th CENTURY
Arnold, Eli; Austin, Grove C. and Frank H.; Candee, Zacheus; Canfield, Charles L.; Ensign, Eli; Ferry, Abijah; Ferry, Isaac; Foot, Amos; Ford, Jesse; Hickok, Hannah; Hillyer, Pliney; Ingersoll, David; Jackson, Daniel; Kellogg family; Little, Lucius; Matthews, Jabez; Morgan, Consider; Noble, Enock; Noble, Hezekiah; Root, Betsey; Root, Israel; Root, Stephen; Schellinger, Gideon; Shears, Jerimiah; Stocking, Moses; Vosburgh, Sylvester; Warner, Enos; Wheeler, Isaac; youngblood, Oliver
DIRECTORIES
Blanchard, Massachusetts Year Book for 1909, No. 11
Crowley and Hunt, The South Berkshire Directory, 1910-1911, Resident and Business Directory of Southern Berkshire County, Massachusetts and the township of North Canaan
Crowley and Hunt, The South Berkshire Directory, 1913-1914, Resident and Business Directory of Southern Berkshire County, Massachusetts and the township of North Canaan
Crowley and Hunt, The South Berkshjre Directory, Vol. VIII, 1929-1931
Crowley and Hunt, The South Berkshjre Directory, Vol. IX, 1932-1934
Crowley and Hunt, The South Berkshire Directory, Vol. VX, 1954-1956
Goussett, Great Barrington Directory, 1904-1905, Including the Town of Sheffield
DOCUMENTS, oversize
Caton, Ruth M., Berkshire Business School, Pittsfield, diploma, May 1936
Caton, Ruth M., Sheffield High School diploma, 1935
Conway, Mary, class of 1885, diploma given June 1901
Cowles, George R., broadside of East Mendon [New York] Academy as headmaster
Doolittle, A. Augusta, marriage certificate, 10 October 1860
Grand Army of the Republic charter, General Barnard Post 210
Heaton, Thomas, marriage certificate, 10 October 1860
Kellogg, Lucy H., State Normal School, Westfield, diploma, 1878
Peters, Raymond Joseph, Sheffield High School diploma, 1938
HISTORIES, PUBLISHED
Connecticut County Histories
Fairfield, Hartford, Windham
Connecticut General Histories and Genealogies
Bailey, Early Connecticut Marriages (with a separate master index)
Barber, Connecticut Historical Collections
Burpee, Burpee’s the Story of Connecticut,Vols. 1-4
Bureau of the Census, Heads of [Connecticut] Families at the First Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1790
Connecticut Historical Society, Rolls of Connecticut Men in the French and Indian War 1755-1762, Vols. 1 and 2
Cropsey, Register of Revolutionary Soldiers and Patriots Buried in Litchfield County
Goodwin, Genealogical Notes. The First Settlers of Connecticut and Massachusetts
Hughes and Allen, Connecticut Place Names
Johnston, Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the War of the Revolution, War of 1812, [and the] Mexican War
Knox and Ferris, Some Connecticut Nutmeggers who Migrated
Larned, Historic Gleanings in Windham County Connecticut
Manwaring, Early Connecticut Probate Records, Vols. 1-3
New England Historical and Genealogical Review, Genealogies of Connecticut Families, Vols. 1-3
Pasay, Windham County Connecticut Court Records, 1732-1736
Pease and Niles, A Gazetteer of the States of Connecticut and Rhode Island
Connecticut Town Histories
Avon, Barkhamsted, Bridgeport, Bristol, Canaan, Canton, Colebrook, Cornwall, Danbury, Derby, East Haven, Fairfield, Falls Village, Farmington, Goshen, Granby, Greenwich, Guilford, Hartford, Litchfield, Lyme, Middletown, Milford, Naugatuck Valley and Waterbury, New Britain, New London, New Milford, Norfolk, North Groton, Norwalk, Norwich, Preston, Redding, Ridgefield, Riverton, Salisbury, Sharon, Southbury, Southport, Stamford, Stonington, Torrington, Trumbull, Wallingford, Waterbury & Naugatuck Valley, Wethersfield, Wilton, Winchester & Winsted, Winsted & Winchester, Windsor, Woodbury
Massachusetts County Histories
Berkshire, Essex, Hampshire, Nantucket
Massachusetts General Histories and Genealogies
Bailey, Early Massachusetts Marriages with Supplement (separate master index)
Banks, Planters of the Commonwealth
Bentley, Index to the 1800 Census of Massachusetts
Biographical Review Publishing Company, Biographical Review, Vol. XXXI, Berkshire County Massachusetts
Board of Editors, Western Massachusetts. A History 1636-1925, Vols. 1-4
Bureau of the Census, Heads of [Massachusetts] Families at the First Census of the United States taken in 1790
Carvalho, Black Families in Hampden County, Massachusetts, 1650-1855, New England Historical Genealogical Society and Institute for Massachusetts Studies, Westfield State College
Child, Gazetteer of Berkshire County, Massachusetts
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Debates and Proceedings of the Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Held in the Year 1788
Cutter, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families . . . of Massachusetts
Dexter, Maps of Early Massachusetts pre-History through the Seventeenth Century, revised edition
Field, History of the County of Berkshire, Massachusetts
Flagg, An Index of Pioneers from Massachusetts to the West
Gannett, A Geographic Dictionary of Massachusetts
Goodwin, Genealogical Notes. The First Settlers of Connecticut & Massachusetts
Holland, History of Western Massachusetts, Vols. 1 and 2
Konik, Massachusetts Migrants to Lorain County, Ohio
Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, Vol. 1, 1899 to Vol. XXXIV, 1937
Nason, A Gazetteer of Massachusetts
New England Historical and Genealogical Society, Historical Data Relating to Counties, Cities and Towns in Massachusetts
Paige, List of Freemen of Massachusetts, 1630-1691
Pope, Pioneers of Massachusetts
Stevens, The Massachusetts Magazine. Marriages and Death Notices, 1789-1796
Wright, The Story of Western Massachusetts, Vols. 1-4
Massachusetts Town Histories
Amesbury, Andover, Becket, Beverly, Blandford, Boston, Cape Cod area, Charlestown, Cheshire, Chicopee & Holyoke, Dalton, Dorchester, Duxbury, Egremont, Essex, Framingham, Gloucester, Grafton, Great Barrington, Hadley, Haverhill, Holyoke & Chicopee, Ipswich, Lanesborough, Lee, Lenox, Lynn, Lynnfield, Marthas Vineyard Island, Mount Washington, Monterey, Nahant, Newbury, New Marlborough, Newbury, Newburyport West, North Brookfield, Otis, Pittsfield, Plymouth, Richmond, Roxbury, Rowley, Salem, Salisbury & Amesbury, Sandisfield, Sheffield, Springfield, Stockbridge, Tyringham, Watertown, Wenham, Westfield, Wilbraham, Williamstown, Worthington
New York County Histories
Columbia, Dutchess, Suffolk, Westchester
New York Town Histories
Harrison & Rye & White Plains, Hillsdale, Islip, Katonah, Kingston, Pine Plains, Rye & Harrison & White Plains, Schenectady, Southampton, Southold, White Plains & Rye & Harrison, Yonkers
New England General Histories and Genealogies
American Historical Company, The Colonial and Revolutionary Lineages of America
Anderson, The Great Migration Begins. Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vols. 1-3
Baird, Huguenot Emigration to America. Two Vols. in One
Banks, Topographical Dictionary of English Emigrants
Bunnell, The New Loyalist Index
Calket, Founders of Early American Families
Clemens, American Marriage Records before 1699
Coldham, Book of Emigrants, 1607-1660
Coldham, Book of Emigrants, 1661-1699
Coldham, Book of Emigrants, 1700-1750
Coldham, Book of Emigrants, 1751-1776
Cutter, New England Families, Vols. 1-4
Eliot, A Biographical Dictionary of New England
Farmer, Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New England
Filby, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 3 Vols., A to Z
Hollick, New Englanders in the 1600s
Holmes, Directory of the Heads of New England Families
Hough, American Biographical Notes
Roberts, Genealogies of Mayflower Families, 3 Vols., A-W
Savage, Genealogical Dictionary of New England, Vols. 1-4
Secretary of War, The Pension List of 1835, Vol. I., New England States
Society of the Cincinnati, Roster of the Society of the Cincinnati, 1974
Tolcott, Genealogical Notes of New York and New England Families
Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (Also, Sanborn, Supplement to Torrey and Second Supplement to Torrey)
Virkus, Compendium of American Genealogy, First Families of America, Vols. 1-7
Virkus, Immigrant Ancestors
Waters, Genealogical Gleanings in England
Weis, Colonial Clergy of New England
INDENTURES and GUARDIANSHIPS of SHEFFIELD CHILDREN, 1752 - 1849
__________, Patience, 1770; Andrews, Samuel, 1793; Armitage, Mary, 1786; Austin, Ruth, 1767; Bradley, Clarissa, 1785; Bradley, Electa, 1785; Bramin, Abigail, 1788; Brooks, Calvin, 1793; Brown, Henry, 1797; Callender, Mark, 1849; Cassel, Joel, 1758; Church, Samuel, 1755, Cleveland, Moses, 1772; Corbin, Ira and Joseph, 1780; Cornwell, Deliah, 1826; Cornwell, Edward, 1773; Curtiss, Hiram and David, 1815; Dewey, Daniel, Jr. and Daniel, Sr., 1781; Drummond, John, 1773; Eddy, Josiah, 1722; Ellis, Marcia Ann and Betty (or Betsey) Foskett, 1824; Ferre, Adonaijah and David, 1811; Forrest, Ahyra and David, 1811; Forrest, David and Ahyra, 1811; Forrest, Isaiah and Thomas, 1820; Forrest, Thomas and Isaiah, 1820; Foskett, Abagail, 1787; Foskett, Betsey (or Betty) and Marcia Ann Ellis, 1824; Foskett, Elizabeth, 1793; Foskett, Joseph, 1788; Gains, Mary, 1761; Griggs, Benjamin and Mary, 1781; Griggs, Mary and Benjamin, 1781; Haskins, Dorcas, 1795; Hearvey, Joel, 1771; Highstead, Susannah and child, 1763; Holcomb, Matthew, 1771; Holcomb, Michael, 1773; Holcomb, Sarah, 1787; Hopkins, Mark, 1763; Jackson, Daniel, 1758; Jackson, Rubin, 1760; Kelsey, Elisha and Henry, 1821; Kelsey, Elisha and Horace, 1818; Kelsey, Henry and Elisha, 1821; Kelsey, Horace and Elisha, 1818; McCarron (?), Alexander, 1818; McCarty, John, 1825; Mansfield, Charles, 1849; Masters, Sarah Maria, 1837; Moore (?), John and Leslie, 1802; Moore (?), Leslie and John, 1802; Noble, Peter, Jr., 1786; Palmer, Henry, 1797; Palmer, Hulda, 1797; Parkihst (?), Jonathan, 1752; Parsons, Henry, 1797; Parsons, John, 1818; Pendal, Jonathan, 1752; Phillips, Lucy Ann, 1826; Phillips Mary Elizabeth, 1826; Preston, Isaac, 1800; Randal, Elihu, 1789; Smith, Daniel, 1792; Smith, Daniel, 1796; Smith, James and Phebe, 1810; Smith, Phebe and James, 1810; Steiner, Jane E., 1841; Tresket, Barnebus, 1773; Wainright, Ely, 1785; Wicker, Sarah F., 1840; Wicker, Sarah F., 1845
INN and HOTEL REGISTERS
Maplewood Inn
Guest Registers, Vols. 1-7, Vol. 1, 1867-1880; Vol. 1a, 1874-1878; Vol. 2, 1897-1902; Vol. 3, 1909-1915; Vol. 4, 1911-1914; Vol. 5, 1915-1917; Vol. 6, 1918-1921; Vol. 7, 1921-1924; Account book, 1916
Orchard Shade
Guest Register, 1888-1992
MAPS
Massachusetts Maps
Dexter, Maps of Early Massachusetts, Pre-History through the Seventeenth Century, revised edition
Berkshire County Town Maps
Alford, 1904; Becket, 1831; Egremont, 1831; Great Barrington, 1904; Monterey, 1904; Mount Washington, 1831, ca. 1840, 1841, 1904; New Marlborough, 1904; North Egremont, 1904; Richmond, 1904; Sandisfield, 1904; Stockbridge, 1904; Tyringham, 1904; West Stockbridge, 1904; Williamstown, 1904
Wall Maps and Atlases of Berkshire County
Berkshire County, Henry F. Walling, 1858 showing residences, businesses and important buildings with details of heavily settled hamlets for all of Berkshire County
County Atlas of Berkshire Mass., F. W. Beers, 1876 (two copies)
Historical Original Maps
Boardman, Henry, Survey Map, 1849, showing land owned by Henry and William Boardman
Boardman, William, Survey Map, 1849, showing land owned by Henry and William Boardman
Keith, H[erbert] F[isher], Title map of Sage’s Farm, ca. 1851, showing the history of land transactions in a portion of south-west Sheffield, namely the area of Sage Ravine Farm
Kellogg, Silas, Survey Map showing mountain land owned by him
Kellogg, Silas, Survey Map showing farm land owned by him
Lee, Mary D., Berkshire County, June 1850, showing the towns of Berkshire County
Mohawk Trail Area, 1747-1760, printed 1974
____________, Berkshire County, after 1853, showing the towns of Berkshire County
Town of Sheffield Maps Showing a Particular Detail
Berkshire School, 1980, North Undermountain Road, campus sketch
Brown, Laurence and Henrietta R. Survey Map. Photo copy, showing lands of Browns, bordering Boardman Street, Housatonic River and lands of Joseph Wilcox and Harry Warren
Chapin, Robert and Rose, Survey Map, 1990/91, of Balsam Hill Farm, Hewins Street, owned by the Chapins
Keith, H[erbert] F[isher], Title map of Old Meeting House Site, Sheffield, 1912
Landis, Anna, Survey Map of Land Owned by Anna Landis, Home Road, Sheffield, 1978
Markham, John F. Family Trust, Survey Map of Markham Family Trust, Home Road, ca. 1970
Meeting House Site, Title map of Old, Sheffield, by H[erbert] F[isher] Keith, 1912
Sheffield High School, plan of High School Grounds and Adjacent Area in the Town of Sheffield, Mass., March 1946
Somes, Henry R., plan of High School Grounds and Adjacent Area in the Town of Sheffield, Mass., March 1946
Town of Sheffield Maps Showing Sheffield in Entirety
Aerial photo of Sheffield, 2001
Ashley, John, Junior. Map from Ancient Plans, Grants, etc., Vol. 2, page 261, 1722, showing Sheffield as a naive rectangle
Baker Crowell, Inc., 47 West 34th Street, Great Neck, New York, Survey map of Sheffield showing residents by name, ca. 1899 - 1910
Chandler, William. Photo copy, 1737, probably from state archives, showing naive outline of Sheffield
Fairchild, David. Photo copy, November 1794, from proprietors records, book 1, page 281, showing certain natural and man-made features based on Fairchild’s survey
Gray, Vaughn. Sheffield, 1987, showing streets, points of interest, churches and cemeteries
Sheffield. Map from Ancient Plans, Grants, etc., Vol. 2, page 261, 1722, showing Sheffield as a naive rectangle by John Ashley, Junior
Sheffield. Photo copy, probably from state archives, showing outline map of Sheffield, 1737, by William Chandler.
Sheffield. Photo copy of map, probably from state archives, showing roads in Sheffield
Sheffield. Photo copy, November 1794, from proprietors records, book 1, page 281, showing certain natural and man-made features based on a survey by David Fairchild.
Sheffield. Photo copy of perambulation map, 1829, showing town corner markers.
Sheffield. Photo copy of map, 1830, from state archives, showing businesses and important buildings.
Sheffield. Photo copy of map, 1876, showing residences, business and important features.
Sheffield. Microfilm negatives (2) of the maps of Sheffield from 1904 atlas of Berkshire County.
Sheffield. Photo copy of map, 1931, from Southern Berkshire Registry.
Sheffield. Prepared in January 1968 by T. S. Bacon from U.S.G.S. maps and field surveys and 1970 revised edition.
Sheffield. Map, 1987, showing streets, points of interest, churches and cemeteries by Vaughn Gray.
Sheffield. Map, 1987, prepared for the Sheffield Planning Board from U.S.G.S. maps
Town of Sheffield Special Use Maps
Berkshire Street Railway Plan showing proposed location of Tracks in the Town of Sheffield, 1910
Gray, Vaughan, Sheffield Zoning Map, unknown date
Real Estate Atlas, The Berkshires, Vol. 1, Sheffield, 1972 (2 copies)
Sheffield Civil Defense Map, 1942, revised 1951, showing residences of inhabitants (two copies)
Sheffield Resources Map, 2001
Sheffield Buildable Land, 2004
Sheffield Zoning Map, unknown date, Vaughan Gray
Sheffield Zoning Map, unknown date, showing rural, village center, commercial and general use areas
United States Geological Survey Maps (U.S.G.S.) of Tri-State Area
Ashley Falls, Mass.- Conn., Greatly enlarged, customized exhibit U.S.G.S. map showing road classification, structures and physical features from North Canaan, Connecticut to Covered Bridge Lane in Sheffield.
Ashley Falls, Mass.-Conn., 1949 (three copies)
Ashley Falls, Mass.-Conn. 1958, revised 1969 (four copies)
Egremont, Mass.-Conn.-N.Y, 1948
Egremont, Mass-N.Y., 1958
Egremont, Mass., 1973
Great Barrington, 1948 (three copies)
Great Barrington, 1958
Sheffield, Mass., 1884-1885 (and photocopy of same)
Sheffield, Mass., 1887, reprint August 1915
Sheffield, Mass., 1897, reprint March 1901
Sheffield, Mass., 1897, reprint March 1908
Sheffield, Mass., October 1897, reprint 1937
Sheffield, Mass., October 1897, reprint 1941 (two copies)
Sheffield, Mass.-Conn.-N.Y, 1897, reprint 1934
MILITARY HISTORY
Bowen, History of the 37th Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers in the Civio War of 1861-1865
Bunnell, The New Loyalist Index
Clark, The Pension Lists of 1792-1795 with Other Revolutionary War Pension Records
Connecticut Historical Society, Rolls of Connecticut Men in the French and Indian War, 1755- 1762, Vols. I and II
Cropsy, Register of Revolutionary Soldiers and Patriots Buried in Litchfield County
Hatch, Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots, Vols. 1-4
Johns, Life with the 49th Massachusetts Volunteers
Johnston, Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the War of the Rebellion, War of 1812, Mexican War
Peterson, Known Military Dead During the American Revolutionary War 1775-1783
Secretary of War, The Pension List of 1835, Vol. I., New England States
Sheffield Civil War soldiers and their records (Binder)
Sheffield French and Indian Wars soldiers (Binder)
Sheffield Revolutionary War soldiers and their records (Binder)
Sheffield World War I soldiers and their records (Binder)
Sheffield World War II soldiers
Society of the Cincinnati, Roster of the Society of the Cincinnati, 1974
Veterans of the Civil War buried in Sheffield (Binder)
Veterans of the Revolution and their burial sites nation wide
Veterans of the Revolution buried in Sheffield (Binder)
Veterans of the War of 1812 buried in Sheffield (Binder)
Veterans of World War I buried in Sheffield (Binder)
NEWSPAPERS and PERIODICALS
Berkshire County Eagle, The. Bound, 26 November to 21 December 1902
Berkshire Courier. Bound Volumes, 1864-1877, 1891-1916, 1948, 1949 (Note: A complete set of The Berkshire Courier is available on microfilm at the Mason Library in Great Barrington.)