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Boston City Directory, 1789
A center of early United States history and freedom, Boston, Massachusetts was also an important commercial port and home of hundreds of both small and large businesses. This database is a transcription of the 1789 Boston City Directory, the first one created for the city. It contains the names, occupations, and street addresses of nearly 1,500 businessmen, statesmen, and common laborers living within the city limits. It includes notable Americans such as John Hancock, Paul Revere, Samuel Adams, and Charles Bullfinch. Anyone looking to trace his or her ancestors to this important port city in Boston soon after the American Revolution will find this data useful and fascinating.

Boston City Directory, 1805
In the early 1800's, Boston, Massachusetts, was one of America's busiest and most vibrant commercial ports. It attracted visitors and brought in goods from other ports along the Atlantic coast as well as Europe and Asia. A center of banking, shipping, and manufacturing, many of America's first large businesses called Boston home. This directory of over 4,600 Boston inhabitants reveals a wide range of people and occupations, including bankers, attorneys, fruit vendors, soap boilers, shoe makers, innkeepers, sea captains, and grocery merchants. Copied directly from the 1805 Boston City Directory, this database includes first name, last name, occupation, and street address of many of Boston's residents and businesses. From the street addresses researchers can compare information in this database with census information of the same time period. Though this directory lists few women, many fathers and sons are listed together. This is especially evident when they shared both a business and an address. This database can be a valuable resource for researchers interested in learning more about their ancestors who, in 1805, lived in Boston, Massachusetts.

Suffolk County, Boston City Massachusetts 1810 City Directory
In the early 1800s, Boston, Massachusetts, was one of America's busiest and most vibrant commercial ports. It attracted visitors and brought in goods from other ports along the Atlantic coast as well as Europe and Asia. A center of banking, shipping, and manufacturing, many of America's first large businesses called Boston their home. This directory of Boston inhabitants reveals a wide range of people and occupations, including bankers, attorneys, fruit vendors, soap boilers, shoe makers, innkeepers, sea captains, and grocery merchants. Copied directly from the 1810 Boston City Directory, this database includes first name, last name, occupation, and street address of many of Boston's residents and businesses. From the street addresses researchers can compare information in this database with census information of the same time period. Though this directory lists few women, many fathers and sons are listed together. This is especially evident when they shared both a business and an address. This database can be a valuable resource for researchers interested in learning more about their ancestors who, in 1810, lived in Boston, Massachusetts.

Boston City Directory, 1890
One of the oldest and most important cities in English North America, Boston was home to over 200,000 people in 1890. This database is a directory of city residents in that year. In addition to providing the resident's name, it provides their address and occupational information. It includes the names of over 195,000 people, mostly heads of households. For the researcher of ancestors from eastern Massachusetts this can be an extremely valuable collection.

Boston, Massachusetts, 1913 Harvard University Alumni Directory
In 1905, at a meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs, it was decided that a directory be created which would contain the names of all living men who had at any time been registered in Harvard University. This database, which contains over 35,000 names, was based on the second edition of the Alumni Directory, which was corrected to 15 September 1913. The researcher will find that each record in this database contains the full name of the former student, as well as their residence as of the printing of the original directory. The occupational field for each man is also included. Most of the fifty states and numerous foreign countries are represented. The names of nearly 300 instructors were included as well.