Features of this eBook

The page images are published on the CDs in high-quality facsimiles, which required more data storage than is available on a single CD-ROM, so the book is published in several formats: either as a 2-disc set containing the entire book, or as five "regional" single discs, which contain chapters of from four to ten towns along with material common to all the discs. See the list below of what is on each disc.

Since the book's type was hand-set, and is consequently somewhat uneven, optical character recognition (OCR) could not be used to convert the text to electronic form, so to facilitate locating information we indexed every occurance of peoples' names with hyperlinks to their location in the text. In the section about the Massachusetts Bay Colony, place names were also indexed. Peoples' names were entered in a database, which is included on each CD and in this website, to make it easy to locate the chapter in which they are mentioned. The database has the added benefit of indicating which of the geographically divided CDs the chapter is on.

Disc Contents