Massachusetts Minority Records online include African American records, Native American Records, and more. This is a preliminary list.
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Massachusetts Minority Records Online at the federal level
US – African American – Discover Freedmen, at FS (searches FS Freedmen’s Bureau records), at FS
US – African American – United States Freedmen’s Bureau Miscellaneous Records,1865-1872, index links to images (misc, court, land, labor, medical, African American) NOT IN DISCOVER FREEDMEN DATABASE SEARCHES, at FS
US – African American – United States Freedmen’s Bureau, Records of Freedmen, 1865-1872, index & images (census, labor, immigration, slavery, birth, death, military, African American) NOT IN DISCOVER FREEDMEN DATABASE SEARCHES, at FS
US – African American – United States Freedmen’s Bureau Miscellaneous Records,1865-1872, index links to images (misc, court, land, labor, medical, African American), at FS
US – African American – United States Freedmen’s Bureau, Records of Freedmen, 1865-1872, index & images (census, labor, immigration, slavery, birth, death, military, African American), at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Claim Records,1865-1872, index & images (marriage, labor, land, court, medical), at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Labor Contracts, Indenture and Apprenticeship Records, 1865-1872, index & images (African American, court, labor, bounty, medical, land, personal information), at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Ration Records,1865-1872, index & images (African American, rations, relief, slavery, slave owners), at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Records of Persons and Articles Hired, 1865-1872, index & images (African American, employment, medical), at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Records of Freedmen’s Complaints, 1865-1872, index & images (African American, legal), at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Records of the Superintendent of Education and of the Division of Education, 1865-1872, index & images (African American, school, legal), at FS
US – African American – United States Freedmen’s Branch Records, 1872-1878, images, at FS
US – African American – US Freedmen’s Bureau Marriage Records, 1846-1867, at Anc$
US – African American – U.S., Freedmen’s Bureau Records of Field Offices, 1863-1878, at Anc$
US – African American – USGenWeb Project: African American Archives, at USGWA
US – African American – Great slave narratives, IA
US – African American – African American genealogy: a bibliography and guide to sources, at FS
US – African American – African American slave narratives Vol I, IA
US – African American – African American slave narratives Vol II, IA
US – African American – African American slave narratives Vol III, IA
US – African American – African, Americans and the Gettysburg campaign, IA
US – African American – Before the Mayflower : a history of the Negro in America, 1619, 1964, IA
US – African American – Black courage 1775, 1783: Documentation of Black participation in the American Revolution, IA
US – African American – Black genesis : a resource book for African, American genealogy, IA
US – African American – Black Indian genealogy research, IA
US – African American – Black slavery emancipation research in the Northern States, FS
US – African American – Compiled military service records of volunteer soldiers who served with the United States Colored Troops : 1st through 5th United States Colored Cavalry, 5th Massachusetts Cavalry (Colored), 6th United States Colored Cavalry : pamphlet describing M1817, IA
US – African American – Compiled military service records of volunteer Union Soldiers who served with the United States Colored Troops, infantry organizations, 14th through 19th, IA
US – African American – Finding a place called home : a guide to African, American genealogy and historical identity, IA
US – African American – Forgotten patriots : African American and American Indian patriots of the Revolutionary War : a guide to service, sources, and studies, DAR
US – African American – Free Negro owners of slaves in the United States in 1830, together with Absentee ownership of slaves in the United States in 1830, GB
US – African American – Generations past : a selected list of sources for Afro, American genealogical research, at FS
US – African American – History of the American negro and his institutions, at FS
US – African American – Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro (Vol. 1. Cases from the courts of England, Virginia, West Virginia, and Kentucky), at FS
US – African American – Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro (Vol. 2. Cases from the courts of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee), at FS
US – African American – Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro (Vol. 3. Cases from the courts of Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana), at FS
US – African American – Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro (Vol. 4. Cases from the Courts of New England, the Middle States, and the District of Columbia), at FS
US – African American – Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro (Vol. 5. Cases from the Courts of States North of the Ohio and west of the Mississippi Rivers, Canada and Jamaica), at FS
US – African American – List of Black servicemen compiled from the War Department collection of Revolutionary War records, at FS
US – African American – List of free black heads of families in the first census of the United States, 1790, at FS
US – African American – Memorials of Lieut. George H. Walcott, late of the 30th U.S. Colored Troops, HT
US – African American – Missing pages in American history : revealing the services of Negroes in the early wars in the United States of America, 1641, 1815, GB
US – African American – Negro population in the United States, 1790, 1915, HT
US – African American – Noted Negro women : their triumphs and activities, at FS
US – African American – Patriots of color: a peculiar beauty and merit : African Americans and Native Americans at Battle Road & Bunker Hill, HT
US – African American – Progress of a race, or, The remarkable advancement of the American Negro : from the bondage of slavery, ignorance, and poverty to the freedom of citizenship, intelligence, affluence, honor and trust, at FS
US – African American – Recollections of a colored troop, LOC
US – African American – Record of the services of the seventh regiment U.S. colored troups, at FS
US – African American – Reminiscences of my life in camp with the 33rd United States Colored Troops, late 1st S.C. Volunteers, GB
US – African American – Report to the Freedmen’s Inquiry Commission, 1864 : the refugees from slavery in Canada West, HT
US – African American – Services of colored Americans in the wars of 1776 and 1812, at FS
US – African American – Slavery in the courtroom: an annotated bibliography of American cases, HT
US – African American – The colored patriots of the American Revolution, GB
US – African American – The colored patriots of the American Revolution, with sketches of several distinguished colored persons : to which is added a brief survey of the condition and prospects of colored Americans, GB
US – African American – The Forty, Third Regiment United States Colored Troops, Gutenberg
US – African American – The National cyclopedia of the colored race, GB
US – African American – The negro as a soldier in the war of the rebellion, LOC
US – African American – The Negro soldier : a select compilation, at FS
US – African American – The underground rail road : a record of facts, authentic narratives, letters, &c. narrating the hardships hair, breadth escapes and death struggles of the slaves in their efforts for freedom, as related by themselves and others, or witnessed by the author, HathiTrust
US – African American – The Underground railroad from slavery to freedom, Gutenberg
US – African American – Two colored women with the American Expeditionary Forces, at FS
US – African American – Who’s who in colored America : an illustrated biographical directory of nolable living persons of African descent in the United States, at FS
US – German American – United States Germans to America Index, 1850-1897, index, at FS
US – Italian American – United States Italians to America Index, 1855-1900, index, at FS
US – Japanese American – United States, War Relocation Authority Centers, final accountability rosters, 1942-1946, index & images, at FS
US – Native American – United States, Native American Birth and Death Records, 1885-1940, index, at FS
US – Native American – United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940, index, at FS
US – Native American – United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Enrollment Records, 1908-1910, index, at FS
US – Native American – United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Indian Reservation Rolls, 1848-1970, index, at FS
Massachusetts Minority Records Online at the state level
Massachusetts – African American – Massachusetts: People of Color in the State Census, 1855-1865, at AA$
Massachusetts – African American – Massachusetts Obits, at AG
Massachusetts – African American – The narrative of Bethany Veney, a slave woman, at IA
Massachusetts – African American – The trial and execution, for petit treason, of Mark and Phillis : slaves of Capt. John Codman, who murdered their master at Charlestown, Mass., in 1755 ; for which the man was hanged and gibbeted, and the woman was burned to death ; including, also, some, at FS
Massachusetts – Minorities – Compiled military service records of volunteer Union soldiers who served with the United States colored troops : 1st through 5th United States Colored Cavalry, 5th Massachusetts Cavalry (Colored), 6th United States Colored Cavalry; NARA, RG 94, M1817
Massachusetts – Minorities – The pre-Revolutionary Irish in Massachusetts, 1620-1775
Massachusetts – Native American – Vocabulary of the Massachusetts (or Natick) Indian language, at FS
Massachusetts – Native American – Nonantum and Natick, at FS
Massachusetts – Native American – Report to the Governor and Council concerning the Indians of the Commonwealth under the act of April 6, 1859, at FS
Massachusetts – Native American – The significance of John Eliot’s Natick and the name Merrimac, at FS
Massachusetts Minority Records online at the city level
Andover – Slavery & Bondage – Andover, Massachusetts marriage records 1839-1900 ; Deaths 1801-1904 ; Massachusetts slave records, at FS
Andover – Slavery & Bondage – Vital records from Methuen, Andover, Rowley, Boxford and Groveland, Massachusetts and slave records from Massachusetts, at FS
Boxford – Slavery & Bondage – Boxford and Newbury Massachusetts vital records with genealogical notes on families from Vermont, New Hampshire and Massachusetts; slave records from Massachusetts, at FS
Boxford – Slavery & Bondage – Vital records from Methuen, Andover, Rowley, Boxford and Groveland, Massachusetts and slave records from Massachusettsv
Bradford – Slavery & Bondage – Bradford, Massachusetts birth records, 1843-1896 and Haverhill, Massachusetts marriage records, 1844-1883; slave records from Massachusetts, at FS
Bradford – Slavery & Bondage – Vital records from Bradford and Newbury, Massachusetts and various other towns; slave records from Massachusetts, at FS
Georgetown – Slavery & Bondage – Groveland and Georgetown, Massachusetts vital records; Groveland family vital records; slave records from Massachusetts, at FS
Groveland – Slavery & Bondage – Groveland and Georgetown, Massachusetts vital records; Groveland family vital records; slave records from Massachusetts, at FS
Groveland – Slavery & Bondage – Vital records from Methuen, Andover, Rowley, Boxford and Groveland, Massachusetts and slave records from Massachusetts, at FS
Haverhill – Slavery & Bondage – Bradford, Massachusetts birth records, 1843-1896 and Haverhill, Massachusetts marriage records, 1844-1883; slave records from Massachusetts, at FS
Marlborough – Native Races – Indian Deed Records, at FS
Methuen – Slavery & Bondage – Vital records from Methuen, Andover, Rowley, Boxford and Groveland, Massachusetts and slave records from Massachusetts, at FS
Newbury – Slavery & Bondage – Boxford and Newbury Massachusetts vital records with genealogical notes on families from Vermont, New Hampshire and Massachusetts; slave records from Massachusetts, at FS
Newbury – Slavery & Bondage – Vital records from Bradford and Newbury, Massachusetts and various other towns; slave records from Massachusetts, at FS
Rowley – Slavery & Bondage – Vital records from Methuen, Andover, Rowley, Boxford and Groveland, Massachusetts and slave records from Massachusetts, at FS
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