History of the Town of Duxbury Massachusetts with Genealogical Registers

Duxbury was founded by migrants from the town of Plymouth Massachusetts in 1632. Duxbury's importance in Mayflower genealogy is irrefutable and it is underscored by the simple fact that the town was named for Duxbury Hall the seat of Miles Standish's ancestral home in England. Justin Winsor's venerable history of Duxbury commences with chapters on the settlement and incorporation of the town; boundaries roads and landmarks; first settlers; schools and education; and early contact with the Indian population. Subsequent chapters are concerned with lists of 17th-century town officers Duxbury in the colonial wars the American Revolution and the War of 1812 and the history of the Congregational Church in Duxbury. Of greatest interest to researchers over one-third of the volume is devoted to genealogical notes and sketches of more than 200 early families of Duxbury including the ones that follow: Alden Arnold Baker Barker Bartlett Bisbee Bishop Bonney Bosworth Bourn Bradford Brewster Briggs Brown Bryant Bumpus Burgess Carver Chandler Chapman Church Clark Cole Cullifer Curtis Cushing Cushman Dawes Delano Dingley Drew Dwelley Eaton Ford Frazar Freeman Glass Hall Harlow Hathaway Holmes House Howard Howland Hudson Hunt Kein Lambert Lazell Leonard Loring Louden Mitchell Mullins Nash Oldham Pabodie Partridge Peirce Peterson Phillips Prince Prior Ripley Rogers Sampson Seabury Shaw Simmons Soule Southworth Sprague Standish Starr Sylvester Thomas Wadsworth Weston Winsor and Wormall.