Additional Primary Sources

Resources to Help With Research

Early Massachusetts Vital Records, 1600-1800

Interactive Massachusetts Tax Inventory, 1771. Search by town. Category includes “Servant for Life.”

Massachusetts Archives Collection Database 1629-1799

1754 Massachusetts Slave Census

Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County

Find A Grave

Family Search. Provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Resource for tracing family history.

The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database

Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project

Mass Moments: First Slaves Arrive in Massachusetts

Salem Deeds

Boston Public Library Anti-Slavery Collection

The Liberator Files. Boston-based Abolitionist newspaper, published by William Lloyd Garrison, 1831-1865

Harvard’s Digital Archive of Massachusetts Anti-Slavery and Anti-Segregation Petitions

AmericanAncestors.org. The website of the New England Genealogical Society, has free access to Essex County Probate Records

Freedom Cases North Shore, MA compiled by Jeanne Pickering

Digital Archive of Anti-Slavery and Anti-Segregation Petitions, 17^th century through Civil War

http://caps.gov.harvard.edu/digital-archive-anti-slavery-and-anti-segregation-petitions

https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/antislaverypetitionsma

http://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/view/drs:45814461$1i