Due to Diane Rapaport’s busy schedule and other
professional commitments, we are not posting
further book updates online at this time. Diane continues to
compile updates and corrections,
however, for possible future release. If you have updates or
corrections to contribute, you may
contact her directly at
diane@quillpenpress.com.
Special thanks for permission to reproduce
masthead images above:
Abigail Emmery's 1710 petition for divorce
(SC1 45X, Mass. Archives Collection v.9: p.162); and petition of
Josiah
Butts, Berkshire County, Mass., 1851, for adoption of
orphan child and name change (SC1 Acts 1851 ch. 249).
Courtesy
of the Massachusetts Archives, Boston.
Superior Court of Judicature, Plymouth, Mass,
1718. Courtesy of New England Historic Genealogical Society,
Boston.
Raynham Iron Works. Courtesy of the Old Colony
Historical Society, Taunton, Mass.
Felling. Courtesy of Samuel F. Manning, from
his book, New England Masts and the King’s Broad Arrow.
Gardiner,
Me.: Tilbury House Publishers, 2000.