Who We Are

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-seven 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, just appeared this past winter and for the moment exists only in hardback form. It is most readily available through Amazon.com.

Forthcoming Publications

The Papers of Francis Bernard, Vol. 6

edited by Colin Nicolson

The Memoirs of Josiah Cotton and Allied Documents

edited by Douglas L. Winiarski

The Diary of William Bentley

edited by Thomas Knoles

The Letter and Account Books of John Hull

edited by David Hancock and Mark Peterson

The Select Correspondence of George Thatcher

edited by William Di Giacomantonio

The Records of King’s Chapel

edited by James Bell and James Mooney

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