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Acton, MA:
Acton in History: Complied for the Middlesex County History:
With Maps and Illustrations by Rev. James Fletcher
published by J.W. Lewis & Co., of Philadelphia, 1890
Acton Directory: Embracing also A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE TOWN
W.N.Sharp, Compiler and Publisher, South Acton, Mass. 1883-84
History of the Acton Minutemen and Militia Companies (1754-1925) by Charles R. Husband -
Copyright 2003, Higginson Book Company Salem, Ma.
History of the Town of Acton by Harold R. Phalen - Copyright 1954, Middlesex Printing Inc. Cambridge, MA.
Historical Sketch of the Faulkner House (a running narrative) by Robert Harrington Nylander
Published by the Iron Work Farm in Acton, Inc. 1969
The Hosmer Family in the American Revolution: A Register of Hosmers in
Military Service 1775-1783 by Henry L. Hosmer 1998
Images of America: ACTON by William A. Klauer - Copyright 2001 Arcadia Publishing Charleston S.C.
“Mill Corner” (South Acton Village) An Architectural History based on A walking Tour of Mill Corner by Robert Nylander - Revised and Expanded by Barbara Nylander and Anne McCarthy Forbes 1989. Published by Iron Work Farm in Acton, Inc. Acton, MA.
The Other Robbins Papers: a presentation to the Acton Historical Society concerning the 18th& 19th Century papers donated to the Society by Joyce Robbins. May 1998
By Isabella V. Choate and Elizabeth S. Conant
The Tell-Tale Tomb or the Acton Aspect of the Concord Fight by Frederick Brooks Noyes, Pastor First Congregational Church Leicester, Mass. published by the Author
Three April Days 1689, 1775, 1861 Read before the Worcester Society of Antiquity, April 19, 1881 by Alfred S. Roe published by Press of Clark Jillson 1881
Others:
The Battle Road Expedition to Lexington and Concord by Charles H. Bradford, Originally published by: The Rotary Club of Boston 1975 , Reprinted by Eastern National 1986,2000
Descendants of Jacob Farrar Jr. and Hannah Hayward of Lancaster, Massachusetts to 1825 by Sue Farrar Thorne; copyright 2001, Gateway Press, Inc. Baltimore, Maryland
Muster Rolls of the Participating Companies of American Militia and Minute-Men in the Battle of April 19,1775 mostly from the Archives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, but a few from other sources. complied by Frank Warren Coburn, publisher by Eastern National 2001
Old Houses of Concord by Mary R. Fenn Copyright 1974, Old Concord Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution
Old Burying Grounds of Concord compiled by Marian Wheeler, Copyright 1999 by the Concord Historical Commission, Concord, Mass. Printed by Minute-Man Printing, West Concord, MA.
Revolutionary Boston, Lexington and Concord. The Shot Heard 'Round the World! Third Edition, 2002, Joseph L. Andews, Jr. MD and Contributors. published by Commonwealth Editions, Beverly, MA.
The Story of the Minute Man with Illustrations by Roland Wells Robbins; copyright 1945, published by George R. Barnstead & Sons, Stoneham , MA.
Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the struggle for America's Indendence by Carol Berkin, copyight 2005 published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York
Our Own Snug Fireplace: Images of the New England Home 1760-1860 by Jane C. Nylander, copyright1993, Yale University Press, New Haven and London
