Bibliography

A Bibliography of Yarmouth History

The books marked with an asterisk are currently available through the Historical Society of Old Yarmouth. Some of the older books may be available at your local library or via inter-library loan service. Parnassus Book Service in Yarmouth Port often has many of the old and out-of-print titles listed below. Located on Route 6A in Yarmouth Port, they can be contacted at: 508-362-6420.

Baker, Florence. 1941. Yesterday’s Tide. Clinton, MA: Colonial Press.

Barber, Laurence. 1988. When South Yarmouth was a Quaker Village. Yarmouth Port, MA: The Historical Society of Old Yarmouth.

Barber, Laurence. 1998. West Yarmouth, A Village Ignored. Yarmouth Port, MA: The Historical Society of Old Yarmouth.*

Bray, Ella W. 1978. All Around the Common. Yarmouth Port, MA: The Historical Society of Old Yarmouth.*

Bray, Mary Matthews. 1920. A Sea Trip in Clipper Ship Days. Boston, MA: Richard Badger, Gorham Press.

D’Amico, Zabelle. 1997. The Breeds and the Caretakers of their Englewood Legacy. Yarmouth Port, MA: The Historical Society of Old Yarmouth.*

Deyo, Simeon L. 1890. History of Barnstable County Massachusetts. New York: H. W. Blake & Co.

Dodge, John W. 1873. A History of the First Congregational Church Yarmouth, MA. Yarmouth Port, MA: Register Press.

Freeman, Frederick. 1860. The History of Cape Cod in Two Volumes. Boston: Geo. C. Rand & Avery.

Frothingham, Ted. 1972. With a Grain of Salt. Yarmouth Port, MA: Register Press.

Gamble, Adam, editor. 1997 reprint. The 1880 Atlas of Barnstable County.

Gregory, Priscilla D. and Judy Thomas, ed. 1989. Yarmouth: Old Homes and Gathering Places. South Yarmouth, MA: Yarmouth Historical Commission.*

Kittredge, Henry C. 1935. Shipmasters of Cape Cod. Reprint, 1998. Hyannis, MA: Parnassus Imprints.

Mahoney, Haynes. 1986. Yarmouth’s Proud Packets. Yarmouth Port, MA: The Historical Society of Old Yarmouth.*

Milliken, Margaret. 1990. The Gnome that lived in Yarmouth. Yarmouth Port, MA: The Historical Society of Old Yarmouth.

Otis, Amos. 1888. Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families. 2 vol. Barnstable: Patriot Press.

Quinn, William P. 1993. The Saltworks of Historic Cape Cod. Orleans, MA: Parnassus Imprints.

Reid, Nancy Thacher. 1996. Dennis, Cape Cod from Firstcomers to Newcomers, 1639 - 1993. Dennis, MA: Dennis Historical Society.

Sherman, Robert M. and Ruth Wilder Sherman. 1975. Vital Records of Yarmouth, MA to the year 1850. Providence: Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Rhode Island.

Siebens, Caroline R. 1963. Riding Around with Father; Camp Meeting; Going Cranberrying. Yarmouth Port, MA: The Historical Society of Old Yarmouth.*

Swift, F. Charles. 1975 reprint. History of Old Yarmouth; comprising the present Towns of Yarmouth and Dennis From the Settlement to the Division in 1794: With the History of Both Towns to 1876. Yarmouth Port, MA: The Historical Society of Old Yarmouth.

Three Centuries of the Cape Cod County Barnstable, Massachusetts, 1685 to 1985. 1985. Published by Barnstable County.

Vuilleumier, Marion. 1989. Yarmouth Massachusetts: A History 1639 - 1989. Yarmouth Port, MA: The Historical Society of Old Yarmouth.*

Yarmouth Camp Meeting: Its History and Its Leaders. 1910.