Key to Abbreviations

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M&JCH — Search for the Passengers of the Mary & John 1630 , Volume 1 through present (Toledo, Ohio, 1985+)

MA Arch — " Massachusetts Archives", being bound volumes of loose papers at the Commonwealth Archives of Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts

MA Civil List — William H. Whitmore, The Massachusetts Civil List for the Colonial and Provincial Periods, 1630-1774 (Albany 1870; rpt. Baltimore 1969)

Macdonough-Hackstaff — Rodney MacDonough, The MacDonough-Hackstaff Ancestry (Boston 1901)

Magna Chart Sureties — Frederick Lewis Weis, The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215, The Barons Named in the Magna Charta, 1215 and Some of Their Descendants Who Settled in America During the Early Colonial Years , 4th ed. (Baltimore 1991)

Magnalia — Cotton Mather, Magnalia Christi Americana ..., 2 volumes (Hartford 1855)

Maine PR — John Eldridge Frost, Maine Probate Abstracts , 2 volumes (Camden, Maine, 1991)

Maine Wills — William M. Sargent, Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (Portland 1887; rpt. Baltimore 1972)

Malden Hist — Deloraine Pendre Corey, The History of Malden, Massachusetts, 1633-1785 (Malden 1899)

Mansfield VR — Susan W. Dimock, Births, Baptisms, Marriages and Deaths From the Records of the Town and Churches in Mansfield, Connecticut, 1703-1850 (New York 1898)

ManVR — Vital Records of Manchester, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (Salem 1903)

Manwaring — A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records, Volume One, Hartford Probate District, 1635-1700 , Charles William Manwaring, comp. (Hartford 1904)

Marblehead — Thomas E. Gray, The Founding of Marblehead (Baltimore 1984)

Marsh Gen — Dwight Whitney Marsh, Marsh Genealogy. Giving Several Thousand Descendants of John Marsh of Hartford, Ct., 1636-1895 (Amherst, Massachusetts, 1895)

MarVR — Vital Records of Marshfield, Massachusetts, to the year 1850 , Robert M. Sherman and Ruth Wilder Sherman, eds. (n.p. 1970)

Martha‘s Vineyard Hist — Charles Edward Banks, The History of Martha‘s Vineyard, Dukes County, Massachusetts in Three Volumes (Edgartown 1966)

Mason — John Mason, "Brief History of the Pequot War," in Charles Orr, History of the Pequot War (Cleveland 1897), pp. 1-46

MBCR — Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England , 1628–1686, Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, ed., 5 volumes in 6 (Boston 1853–1854)

McArthur-Barnes — Selim Walker McArthur, McArthur-Barnes Ancestral Lines , Donald Lines Jacobus, ed. (Portland, Maine, 1964)

McCormick-Hamilton — Elizabeth Day McCormick and Robert Hall McCormick III, patrons, McCormick Hamilton, Lord-Day Ancestral Lines (privately printed, 1957)

MCF — Middlesex County Court Files, deposited at the Commonwealth Archives of Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts

MCR — Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Court Record Books (microfilm)

MD — Mayflower Descendant , Volume 1 through present (1899-1937, 1985+)

Medfield Hist — William S. Tilden, ed., History of the Town of Medfield, Massachusetts . 1650-1886 (Boston 1887)

MF — Mayflower Families (the "silver" books)

MFIP — Mayflower Families in Progress (the "pink" books)

MHGR — Maine Historical & Genealogical Recorder

MHSC — Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society , Volume 1 through present (1792+). This serial is divided into a number of series, so the citations will sometimes be in three parts, designating series, volume and page.

MHSP — Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society , Volume 1 through present (1791+). This serial is divided into a number of series, so the citations will sometimes be in three parts, designating series, volume and page.

MidChR — Middletown, Connecticut, Church Records

Middleboro Hist — Thomas Weston, History of the Town of Middleboro, Massachusetts (Cambridge 1906)

MiddleVR — Middleborough, Massachusetts Vital Records , Barbara Lambert Merrick and Alicia Crane Williams, eds., 2 vols. (Boston 1986, 1990)

MidLR — Middletown, Connecticut, Deeds

MidVR — Middletown, Connecticut, Vital Records

MidVR Barbour — Middletown, Connecticut, Vital Records, Barbour transcript

Milford LR — Milford, Connecticut, Land Records

Milford VR Barbour — Milford, Connecticut, Vital Records, Barbour transcript

Miner Anc — Lillian Lounsberry (Miner) Selleck (and Donald Lines Jacobus), One Branch of the Miner Family ... and Fifty Other Allied Families of Connecticut and Long Island (New Haven 1928)

Minor Diary — The Diary of Thomas Minor, Stonington, Connecticut . 1653 to 1684 (n.p. 1899; rpt. n.p. 1993 [with the diary of Manasseh Minor, 1696 to 1720])

Minot Gen — Joseph Grafton Minot, A Genealogical Record of the Minot Family ... (Boston 1897)

MLR — Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Deeds

Monnette — Orra Eugene Monnette, First Settlers of Ye Plantations of Piscataway and Woodbridge, Olde East New Jersey, 1664-1714 , parts 1-7 (Los Angeles 1930- 1935)

Moore Anc — L. Effingham deForest and Anne Lawrence deForest, Moore and Allied Families: The Ancestry of William Henry Moore (New York 1938)

Morison — Samuel Eliot Morison, The Founding of Harvard College (Cambridge 1935) [especially for Appendix B, "English University Men Who Emigrated to New England Before 1646," pp. 359-410]

Morton — Nathaniel Morton, The New-England‘s Memorial ... (Plymouth 1826)

Mourt — A Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth. Mourt‘s Relation. A Relation or Journal of the English Plantations Settled at Plymouth in New England, by Certain English Adventurers Both Merchants and Others , Dwight B. Heath, ed. (New York 1963)

Mower Anc — Lyman Mower, The Ancestry of Calvin Robinson Mower (1840-1927) (Durham, New Hampshire, 2004)

MPCR — Province and Court Records of Maine , 6 volumes (Portland 1928-1975; volumes 1-3 rpt. Newburyport, Massachusetts, 1991)

MQ — Mayflower Quarterly , Volume 1 to present (1935+)

Mulford Anc — Charles H. Cory, Jr., Lineal Ancestors of Susan (Kitchell) Mulford, Mother of Mrs. Susan (Mulford) Cory , 4 vols. (n.p. 1937)

Munsey-Hopkins — D.O.S. Lowell, A Munsey-Hopkins Genealogy ... (Boston 1920)