Local History eBooks

Public Domain E-Book Collections

• The Internet Archive, https://archive.org
• Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la
• Hathi Trust Digital Library, https://www.hathitrust.org

Acton Memorial Library colllection on the Internet Archive

• https://archive.org/details/actonmemoriallibrary

Acton Town Histories

• 1835. Adams, Josiah. An Address Delivered at Acton, July 31, 1835, being the First Centennial Anniversary of the Organization of that Town.  (Internet Archive)
• 1835. Shattuck, Lemuel. A history of the Town of Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts: from its earliest settlement to 1832; and of the adjoining towns, Bedford, Acton, Lincoln, and Carlisle. (Internet Archive).  See “History of Acton” on pages 274-293.
• 1890. Fletcher, James. Acton in history: compiled for the Middlesex County history.  (Internet Archive)
• 1954. Phalen, Harold R.  History of the town of Acton. (Internet Archive).

Acton Vital Records

• Vital Records of Acton, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850.  (Internet Archive)

Acton Family Histories

• Blanchard family. Hudson, Alfred Sereno. Commemorative of Calvin and Luther Blanchard  (1899).  (Internet Archive)
• Davis family.   Davis, Horace. Dolor Davis: a sketch of his life with a record of his earlier descendants  (1881).  (Internet Archive)
• Hayward family. Adams, William Frederick.  James Hayward, born April 4, 1750, killed in the Battle of Lexington April 19, 1775, with genealogical notes relating to the Haywards  (1911).   (Internet Archive)
• Hosmer family.  Hosmer, George L. Hosmer genealogy; descendants of James Hosmer who emigrated to America in 1635 and settled in Concord, Mass. (1928).  (Hathi Trust)
• White, Mark, family.  White, Thomas, Ancestral Chronological Records of the William White family, from 1607-8 to 1895 (1895). (Internet Archive)
• Potter, Charles Edward. Genealogies of some old families of Concord, Mass. and their descendants in part to the present generation (Internet Archive)