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Bentley, William. The Diary of William Bentley, D.D., Pastor of the East Church, Salem, Massachusetts. Gloucester, MA: P. Smith, 1962.

Felt, Joseph B. (Joseph Barlow). The annals of Salem, from its first settlement. Salem, Mass. : W. & S. B. Ives, 1827.

Foster, Stephen. The Long Argument: English Puritanism and the Shaping of New England Culture, 1570-1700 (Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture). Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press--(Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture), 1996.

Garland, Joseph. Boston's Gold Coast: The North Shore 1890 - 1929. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1981.

Morrison, Dane and Schultz, Nancy Lusignan, ed. Salem: Place, Myth, and Memory. Boston: Northeastern U. Pr., 2004. 348 pp.

Osgood, Charles Stuart and Batchelder, H.M. Historical sketch of Salem, 1626-1879. Salem : Essex Institute, 1879.

Perley, Sidney. The History of Salem, Massachusetts. Salem, MA: S. Perley (In Three Volumes, 1924-1928)

Phillips, James Duncan. Salem and the Indies: the Story of the Great Commercial Era of the City. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1947.

Phillips, James Duncan. Salem in the eighteenth century. Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1937.

Phillips, James Duncan. Salem in the seventeenth century. Boston : New York : Houghton Mifflin Co., c1933.

Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts. Salem, MA: The Essex Institute, 1916

Pynchon, William, 1723-1789. The diary of William Pynchon of Salem : a picture of Salem life, social and political, a century ago / Ed. by Fitch Edward Oliver. Boston ; New York : Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1890.

Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts. Salem, MA: The Essex Institute, 1911-

Story, Joseph. A discourse pronounced at the request of the Essex Historical Society on the 18th of September, 1828 : in commemoration of the first settlement of Salem, in the state of Massachusetts.Boston : Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins, 1828.

Vickers, Daniel. Farmers and Fishermen: Two Centuries of Work in Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630-1850. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994.

Bean, Susan S. Yankee India: American Commercial and Cultural Encounters with India in the Age of Sail, 1784­1860. Salem, MA: Peabody Essex Museum, 2001.

Bradlee, Francis B C., Comp. MarbleheadŒs Foreign Commerce, 1789-1850. Compiled from the Marblehead Custom house Records. Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1929.

Hawes, Dorothy Shurman. To the Farthest Gulf: The Story of the American China Trade. Ipswich, MA: Ipswich Press, 1990.

Heyrman, Christine. Commerce and Culture: The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts, 1690-1750. New York: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1984.

Johnston, Paul Forsythe. New England Fisheries: A Treasure Greater Than Gold : The Russell W. Knight Collection of New England Fishing Scenes. Salem, Massachusetts: Peabody Essex Museum, 1984.

Kimball, John. Disasters Etc.: The Maritime World of Marblehead 1815-1865. Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Peter Randall Pub, 2005.

Morison, Samuel Eliot. The Maritime History of Massachusetts, 1783-1860. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1921, 1941.

National Park Service. Maritime Salem in the Age of Sail. (National Park Service Handbook 126). Produced in cooperation with the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts. Provides an illustrated guide to Salem's historic areas.

Peckham, Courtney Ellis. Essex Shipbuilding (MA) (Images of America). Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2002.

Story, Dana A.. Growing Up in a Shipyard, Reminiscences of a Shipbuilding Life in Essex, Massachusetts. Mystic, Connecticut: Mystic Seaport Museum, Inc., 1991.

Story, Dana Adam. The Shipbuilders of Essex: A Chronicle of Yankee Endeavor. New York: Ten Pound Island Book Company, 1997.

Tamarin, Alfred, and Shirley Glubok. Voyaging to Cathay: Americans in the China Trade. New York: Viking Press, 1976.

Wise, DeWitt D. Now, Then: Baker's Island. Salem, MA: Baker's Island Association, Inc., 1964.

Board of Park Commissioners. The colonial village built at Salem, Massachusetts, to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the arrival of the Winthrop fleet, June 12, 1630. Board of Park Commissioners, city of Salem, Mass. [Salem, 1930]

Bowens, Gloria F. The history of the Woman¹s Friend Society of Salem Massachusetts : 1876 - 2002 Salem, Massachusetts : Woman¹s Friend Society, 2002.

Marshall, Megan. The Peabody sisters : three women who ignited American romanticism. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2005.

Boyer, Paul S. and Nissenbaum, Stephen. Salem Possessed; The Social Origins of Witchcraft. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1974

Boyer, Paul S. and Nissenbaum, Stephen, comps. Salem-Village Witchcraft; a Documentary Record of Local Conflict in Colonial New England. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Pub. Co., 1972

Burr, George Lincoln, ed. Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706. New York: Scribners, 1914

Demos, John. Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982

Drake, Samuel Gardner. The Witchcraft Delusion in New England. W. Elliott Woodward, 1866

Gemmill, William Nelson. The Salem Witch Trials: a Chapter of New England History. Chicago: A. C. McGlurg & Co., 1924

Godbeer, Richard. The Devil's Dominion: Magic and Religion in Early New England. Cambridge University Press, 1992

Gragg, Larry. The Salem Witch Crisis. New York: Praeger, 1992

Hall, David D. Witch Hunting in Seventeenth Century New England: A Documentary History, 1638-1682. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1991

Karlsen, Carol F. The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial America. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., (1987)

Mather, Cotton. Salem Witchcraft: Comprising More Wonders of the Invisible World, Collected by Robert Calef, and Wonders of the Invisible World, by Cotton Mather 1865

Norton, Mary Beth. In the devil's snare : the Salem witchcraft crisis of 1692. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2002.

Stanley, Marion Lena. The Devil in Massachusetts; a Modern Inquiry Into the Salem Witch Trials. New York: A. A. Knopf, 1949

Trask, Richard B. The Devil Hath Been Raised: A Documentary History of the Salem Village Witchcraft Outbreak. Danvers, MA: Danvers Historical Society, 1992

Upham, Charles Wentworth. Salem Witchcraft: With an Account of Salem Village and a History of Opinions on Witchcraft and Kindred Subjects. Reprint New York: Ungar, 1959
(also available from Dover Publications: Mineola, N.Y. : Dover Publications, 2000.)

Upham, Charles Wentworth. Salem witchcraft and Cotton Mather; a reply. Morrisania, N.Y. [ s.n.], 1869.

Yool, George Malcolm. 1692 Witch Hunt: The Layman's Guide to the Salem Witchcraft Trials. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1992

Appleby, Joyce. Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000.

Downs, Jacques M. The Golden Ghetto: The American Commercial Community at Canton and the Shaping of American China Policy, 1784-1844. Bethlehem, PA: Lehigh University Press, 1997.

Elkins, Stanley and Eric McKitrick. The Age of Federalism: The Early American Republic, 1788-1800. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

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