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Founded in 1892, the Colonial Society of Massachusetts is a non-profit educational foundation designed to promote the study of Massachusetts history from earliest settlement through the first decades of the nineteenth century.

The chief business of the Colonial Society is to publish documents related to the early history of Massachusetts. All eighty-eight volumes of the Society’s publications are freely available to the public either for download or consultation through this website. (See Publications for a complete list.)

Volume 88, the latest publication of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, edited by Brock Jobe and Gerald Ward, is now available online. (See Publications page.) Hardback versions of the book are most readily available through Amazon.

Forthcoming Publications

The Insurgent Delegate: Selected Letters and other Writings of George Thatcher

edited by William diGiacomantonio

The Records of Kings Chapel

edited by James Bell and James Mooney

The Correspondence of Thomas Hutchinson, Vol. 2, 1767-1769

edited by John W. Tyler and Elizabeth Dubrulle

The Memoirs of Josiah Cotton & Allied Documents

edited by Douglas Winiarski

The Papers of Francis Bernard, Vol. 6

edited by Colin Nicolson

The Diary of William Bentley, Vol. 1

edited by Thomas Knoles

Next Meeting

18 April 2019 Stated Meeting at 3pm, "Faith and Futility in Josiah Cotton's New England, 1700-1760," Douglas Winiarski, Professor of Religious Studies and American Studies, University of Richmond. His recent book Darkness Falls on the Land of Light: Experiencing Religious Awakenings in Eighteenth Century New England received the Bancroft Prize. Free and open to the public.

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