Resources

BIBLIOGRAPHY for Chronology of Rock’s Bridge, etc.

    1. “Haverhill Records to 1850”, Haverhill Public Library
    2. East Parish 4th Congregational Church Records, Haverhill Public Library
    3. Copy of John Ingersoll’s diary entries for Jan. 1, 1814 – June 27, 1815, obtained from Joel Rubinstein.
    4. Gravestones in Greenwood cemetery on E. Broadway (4/2000)
    5. 4th Church Newbury (now 2nd Church of W. Newbury) Records, Haverhill Public Library
    6. Newbury records from Haverhill Public Library
    7. “Old Houses of Rocks Village and Vicinity”, Noyes, 1941, Haverhill Public Library. Not always completely reliable.
    8. Copy of Zebulon Ingersoll’s will, Essex county Probate document dated 4/18/1829, obtained from former owners of our house..
    9. Moody Family Genealogy
    10. The Essex County website: http://www.essexcountyma.org/newbury/cen1790.htm
    11. Two great Haverhill history web sites: http://www.arches.uga.edu/~wprokasy/haverhill/householdhtm and (similar) http://www.ethelind.com/hvgenweb/1725.html These are loaded with early Haverhill primary source data such as census data. Also list of members of the Pennacook transaction.
    12. A map made by the Sweeney’s (former owners of our house) of their land and a chronology of former owners – some of it checks out, some of it doesn’t.
    13. Hand drawn map and:“Plan of the Town Landing at the Rocks as Perambulated by the Selectmen and reported to the town for their Consumption(?)” Copy of original from Haverhill city archives of 1820, obtained from Sweeney’s.
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    15. Clippings file of the Rock’s Bridge, Haverhill Public Library Special Collections.
    16. Merrimack Bridge Book (1795-1842), Haverhill Public Library Special Collections.
    17. Bailey family ancestry, unpublished, written by my parents, Mildred and Albert E. Bailey. For information on Stephen Johnson and the two Eatons.
    18. Rocks Village Planning Study 1981
    19. Rocks Village Historic Commission archives (photo album)
    20. Technical Memorandum Rocks Village Corridor Planning Study (October 1978), Haverhill Public Library Special Collections.
    21. “A Look at The Diaries of John Ingersoll of Rock’s Village, Haverhill, Massachusetts – 8 volumes written from 1804-1814” by Sally Rubenstein for History 372 Fall 2009
    22. (https://www.sec.state.ma.us/mhc/mhcpdf/townreports/Essex/hvr.pdf)
    23. Swett’s Ferry by Ben H. Swett: http://swett-genealogy.com/09Ferry.html
    24. [Joshua Coffin, A Sketch of the History of Newbury, Newburyport, and West Newbury, from 1635 to 1845 (Boston, S. G. Drake, 1845) republished in 1977, p. 193]
    25. Putnam’s Monthly Historical Magazine and Magazine of New England …, Volume 3
    26. The Peaslees and Others of Haverhill and Vicinity by E. A. Kimball, 1899.
    27. The Essex Antiquarian, Volume 9
    29. The Ladd Family: A Genealogical and Biographical Memoir of the Descendants of Daniel Ladd, of Haverhill, Mass., Joseph Ladd, of Portsmouth, R.I., John Ladd, of Burlington, N.J., John Ladd, of Charles City Co., Va
    30. Gleanings from Merrimac Valley, Miss Rebecca I. Davis, 1881
    31. Gleanings from Merrimac Valley, Sheaf 2, Rebecca Ingersoll Davis, 1887.
    32. Chase, George Wingate, History of Haverhill, Massachusetts, From its First Settlement, In 1640 , To Year 1860. Haverhill Public Library Special Collections, originally published by author, Haverhill, MA  1861
    33. ROCK VILLAGE AND ITS PEOPLE by Leonard Woodman Smith, Notes from the Chase Chronicles -October 1918
    34. Rocks Village at Thanksgiving, November 23, 1980, brochure
    35. 1850 census:  http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~machaver/transcribed_1850_hav800899.htm
    36. Haverhill Vital Records to the end of the year 1840 vol 1 births
    37. Post offices in the US July 1 1855
    38. The History of Haverhill, Massachusetts by Benjamin L. Mirick
    39. Ticonderoga Soldier Elijah Estabrooks Journal 1758 – 1760
    40. http://www.angelfire.com/jazz/murch/elijahestabrooks.html
    41. Esterbrook family https://archive.org/stream/cu31924029840885#page/n37/mode/2up/search/parker
    42. House of the Ferret antiques: Abigail Estabrooks, Haverhill, Middlesex, Massachusetts, 1803
    43. McQuesten ancestry:  http://www.gmccuistion.com/william11538/b11538.htm#P11874
    44. 1798 census:  http://haverhill.essexcountyma.net/hhold1798.htm
    45. Municipal Register of Haverhill
    46. Zebulon Ingersoll’s Account book 1793 – 1799 (Peabody Essex Museum)
    47. Vital Records of Amesbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849
    48. The Story of a New England Town; a reconf of the commemoration, July  https://archive.org/stream/storyofnewenglan00have#page/n773/mode/2up
    49. John Johnson history (https://secure.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=136051987)
    50. The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 8, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of
    51. Boston and Eastern Mass, Volume 4 edited by William Richard Cutter.
    52. Municipal History of Essex County in Massachusetts, Volume 2 edited by Benjamin F. Arrington
    53. Historic Homes and Places and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs …, Volume 4, edited by William Richard Cutter.
    54. “Joseph Rochement and Sally de Poyen of Rocks Village,” The Essex Genealogist, Vol. 34, No. 3, August 2014, pp. 165-170
    55. Antique Houses of Gloucester by Prudence Pain Fish 2007, History Press
    56.  Joseph Burrill Account Book
    57. Massachusetts Horn Smiths: A century of Combmaking 1775 – 1875
    58. Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of …, Volume 3
    59. Descendants from Richard Ingersoll
    60. History of the Nineteenth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, 1861-1865
    61. Lineage Book – National Society of the Daughters of the American …, Volume 11
    62. Genealogical and Personal Memoirs: Relating to the Families of Boston and …by William Richard Cutter
    63. Buttonwoods Leaflet, Winter 2001, Haverhill Historical Society.
    64. The Haverhill Book Full Text.
    65. Historical Notes Concerning the Moody Family, compiled by Herbert A. Moody, 1947
    66. The Family Tree, Seven Hundred Years of Moody Ancestors by Alice Moody Chapin
    67. Biographical sketches of the Moody family: embracing notices of ten ministers and several laymen from 1633 to 1842
    68. History of Newburyport by John J. Currier, 1635 – 1902
    69. Historical Sketch of Shipbuilding on the Merrimack River, John James Currier
    70. Whittier-Land by Samuel Thomas Pickard, 1904
    71. Haverhill Gazette: January 5, 1828
    72. Harper’s Magazine, Volume 66
    73. The Letters of John Greenleaf Whittier: 1828-1845
    74. Henry Ford Buys a Piece of Whittierland During 1928 City Visit, Feb 14, 2016 (WAVE wavelengths By David Goudsward
    75. Rocks Bridge and Approaches by R. R. Evans, Historic American Engineering Record, National Park Service, Department of the Interior
    76. Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts Volume 1 by William Richard Cutter 1908
    77. Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts volume 2;  by Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, b. 1848, joint ed Published 1910
    78. Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts; volume 3by Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, b. 1848, joint ed
    79. Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of the …, Volume 4 edited by William Richard Cutter, William Frederick Adams
    80. Our Family Genealogy Pages: CorlissOrday: http://www.familyrecord.net/getperson.php?personID=I5766&tree=CorlissOrdway
    81. Memorial of the Morses
    82. Genealogy of the Descendant of early settlers (morse family page 896)
    83. Our Family Tree  (Chase)
    84. Chase-L Archives
    85. Descendants of Anthony Morse
    86. Chase Family
    87. One of a Thousand: A Series of Biographical Sketches of One Thousand … edited by John Clark Rand
    88. Whittier Newsletter, Fall 2001, Number 33
    89. The Forgotten Salmon of the Merrimack, by By Lawrence Stolte, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
    90. The Manufacture of Shoes and Hats–Improvements. Chapter 28
    91. Bailey family genealogy, unpublished, about 1975, Mildred P. and Albert E. Bailey.
    92. https://archive.org/stream/haverhillmassach00pric#page/524/mode/2up/search/rocks Haverhill and Groveland 1902 directory
    93. https://archive.org/stream/carrfamilyrecord00carr/carrfamilyrecord00carr_djvu.txt. “The Carr Family Records Embracing…”
    94. ‘Supernaturalism of New England’, John Greenleaf Whittier, originally published 1847.
    95. Collection of ancestry data compiled by Donald Sutherland received from his son Robert Sutherland in 2020.