Online References

Autobiographies

Family Genealogy/Biography Books

American Genealogical Research Institute, Bond Family History, 1978.  From Arthur T Bond's research.

Ames, Wilmot Spofford, Eames-Ames Genealogy: Descendants of Robert of Woburn and Thomas of Framingham Massachusetts, 1634-1931, 1931.

Bishop, R Marshall Jr. Captain, Wilmington Minutemen 1775-1783.  archive.org, also Accessible at Wilmington Library.

Butters, George, The_Genealogical_Registry_of_the_Butters_Family, Including the Descendants of William Butter of Woburn Mass. 1665, 1896.

Carter, Howard Williston, Carter, a genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas Carter, 1909.

Gould, Levi S, Ancient Middlesex with brief Biological Sketches of the Men Who Have Served the County Officially Since Its Settlement, 1905.

Jacques, Patricia, Jaques Family Genealogy, 1995.

Jaquith, George Oaks, The Jaquith Family in America, 1982. Accessible at OpenLibrary.org

Richards, Elizabeth S, Genealogy of the Buck family, which settled in Cambridge, afterwards Woburn, Mass, in 1635, 1913.

Smith, Annie Morrill, Morrill Kindred in America, 1914.  archive.org, Amazon, and other non-Wilmington relatives in " " Volume 2, FamilySearch.org

Thompson, Leander, Memorial of James Thompson, of Charlestown Mass 1630-1642 and Woburn Mass 1642-1682 and of Eight Generations of his Descendants, 1887.

Histories

150th: Noyes, Rev Daniel P, 150th Anniversary, Wilmington 1730-1880, address at Town Reports, also at archive.org

200th: Deming, Harry R, 200th Anniversary, Wilmington, Massachusetts: Its Growth and Progress, 1730-1930, Goole Drive or archive.org,

225th: Neilson, Capt. Larz, Wilmington's 225th Anniversary, 1955. archive.org

250th: Passmore, Adele C, 250th Anniversary, Wilmington 1730-1980, archive.org, hard-copy available for review at Wilmington Public Library. 

275th: Chalifour, Paul F, Wilmington: A Celebration of our Times, 2005.  Google Drive, hard-copy available for review at Wilmington Public Library.


Brown, Abram English, Beside Old Hearthstones: Footprints of the Patriots, 1897.

Curley, Frank, The Minute Men, 1775-1975, 1977 (excerpt of Wilmington chapter), Google Drive

Dillaway, Alice Hathaway, Harnden Tavern Tales, 1975. archive.org

Drake, Samuel Adams, History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts: Containing Carefully Prepared Histories of Every City and Town in the County, Volume 2, 1880 (by Lemuel C Eames)

Hayward, John, The New England Gazetteer, Containing Descriptions of All the States, Counties and Towns in New England, 1829.

Hurd, Duane Hamilton, History of Middlesex County, With Biographies of Prominent Men, Volume 3, 1890. (Chapter LXIV, page 859, by William T Davis)

MHC Reconnaissance Survey Town Report: Wilmington, 1981.  State archives. (Many errors evident)

Morrill, Rev. Isaac, Sermon Preached at Lexington, 19 April 1780.  (reprinted within Morrill Kindred in America)

Nason, Elias and Varney, George Jones, A Gazetteer of the State of Massachusetts, with Numerous Illustrations, 1890. Google Books 

Sewall, Samuel, The History of Woburn, Middlesex County, Mass. from the grant of its territory to Charlestown, in 1640, to the year 1680,  1868.

Simmons, Arthur A, "History, Yearbook, and Church Directory of the Congregational Church in Wilmington, " 1921. ancestry.com

Historical Books, Non-Fiction

Wilmington-related

Buzzell, Phillip B, Stratton Pond and Other Verses,  1971.

Clarke, Mary Stetson, The Old Middlesex Canal, 1974.

Connors, Tracy D, Baited Trap, 2007.

Dias, Bill, On Thin Ice, 2000. amazon.com

Knapp, Marian Leah, Prohibition Wine, 2021.

Tomlan, Michael A, Tinged with Gold: Hop Culture in the United States, 2013. (12-14, 169, 

Wilmington Town Handbook, 1996, accessible at Wilmington Public Library.


General History

Nicholson, Meredith, A Fifth Reader, 1919.


Town Proceedings

Wilmington's First Book of Town Records 1730-1783, transcribed by Arthur T. Bond.

Historical Fiction

Dias, Bill, On Thin Ice, 2000. amazon.com

Tillman, David, Dad's Old Pants, 2005.

Ryan, Mark, The Secret Piano, 2017.

Maps/Locations

State Maps


Town Maps


Aerial Imagery


Historic Homes


Property Valuations


Historical Surveys


Olde Burying Grounds


Ownership Records, Recorded Deeds, and Plot Plans


Walking Tours


Wildwood Cemetery

Picture Books

Chalifour, Paul L, Images of America: Wilmington, 1998. For sale at Wilmington Town Museum at the Harnden Tavern.   

O'Reilly, Gerry, Wilmington: A Retrospective, full scanned copy at archive.org

O'Reilly, Gerry, Entering Silver Lake: Taking a Walk and Looking Back, 2004. archive.org

O'Reilly, Gerry, Silver Lake-Wilmington: Collected Memories, full scanned copy at archive.org

O'Reilly, Gerry, Silver Lake Revisited: A Pictorial, archive.org

O'Reilly, Gerry, Icehouse Burning: The end of the Ice Cutting on Silver Lake, .pdf at a Google Site

O'Reilly, Gerry, Wilmington Old Sports: 1930s to 1960s, .pdf at a Google Site

O'Reilly, Gerry, Wilmington Old Sports: Part Two 1940s to 1970s, .pdf at a  Google Site

O'Reilly, Gerry, Flowing Down the Shawsheen Stream, .pdf at a Google Site

O'Reilly, Gerry, Opening of the New Wilmington High School, 9 Sep 1950, .pdf at a Google Site

O'Reilly, Gerry, Yesterday When We Were Young, WHS Class of '50 and '51, .pdf at a Google Site

Passmore, Adele C, Selected 18th Century Sites in Wilmington, MA, scanned at archive.org

St. Thomas Associates, St. Thomas of Villanova, 1971, accessible at the Town Museum.

Swain, Mary Gowing, Wilmington scrapbook: compiled from newspaper clippings, 1880-1958, bound 1995, scanned at archive.org

Searchable and Static Research Websites

Genealogy

FamilySearch.org, a crowd-sourced, collaborative genealogy tool for building up the master pedigree for the entire human family

Relative Finder: https://relativefinder.org/#/two-deceased, a tool for computing the relationship between two deceased persons



Searchable: 

Massachusetts Historical Commission, Massachusetts Cultural Resource Information System (MACRIS) [Historic homes/buildings database in Massachusetts]

Wilmington Memorial Library, Local History Reference Page [Annual reports, photo collections, scanned historical documents, many cited topically on this page]

Archive.org, a place to search for reference material, archived web pages and archived documents (WML contributions).


Static:

Gerry O'Reilly's:  https://sites.google.com/view/goscratchpad/home

LDSGenealogy Index: https://ldsgenealogy.com/MA/Wilmington.htm