03 August 2019

Using the Essex Institute Historical Collections

Essex Institute, Salem, Mass., circa 1910s
The Essex Institute of Salem, Massachusetts, was formed in 1848 by the merger of the Essex Historical Society and the Essex County Natural History Society. This literary, historical, and scientific society had a deep interest in Essex county, 

In 1992, the Essex Institute merged with the Peabody Museum to become the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM).

One hundred years of the Essex Institute Historical Collections (EIHC) is available online through the Internet Archive. The journals contain family genealogies, histories, probate records, and other miscellaneous records of interest to genealogists.

Indices

Essex Institute Historical Collections. Index for vols. 1-22 for 1859-1885

Essex Institute Historical Collections. Index for vols. 23-43 for 1886-1907

 Essex Institute Historical Collections Index for vols. 44-67 for 1908-1931

Essex Institute Historical Collections. Index for vols. 68-85 for 1931-1949

also Essex Institute Historical Collections Index for vols. 1-40 for 1859-1904


Vol. 1 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1859)

Vol. 2 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1860)

Vol. 3 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1861)

Vol. 4 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1862)

Vol. 5 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1863)

Vol. 6 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1864)

Vol. 7 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1865)

Vol. 8 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1866)

Vol. 9 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1869)

Vol. 10 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1870)

Vol. 11 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1871)

Vol. 12 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1874)

Vol. 13 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1875)

Vol. 14 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1877)

Vol. 15 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1878)

Vol. 16 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1879)

Vol. 17 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1880)

Vol. 18 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1881)

Vol. 19 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1882)

Vol. 20 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1883)

Vol. 21 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1884)

Vol. 22 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1886)

 Vol. 23 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1887)

Vol. 24 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1888)

Vol. 25 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1889)

Vol. 26 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1890)

Vol. 27 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1891)

Vol. 28 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1892)

Vol. 29 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1893)

Vol. 30 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1894)

Vol. 31 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1895)

Vol. 32 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1896)

Vol. 33 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1897)

Vol. 34 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1898)

Vol. 35 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1899)

Vol. 36 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1900)

Vol. 37 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1901)

Vol. 38 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1902)

Vol. 39 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1903)

Vol. 40 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1904)

Vol. 41 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1905)

Vol. 42 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1906)

Vol. 43 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1907)

Vol. 44 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1908)

Vol. 45 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1909)

Vol. 46 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1910)

Vol. 47 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1911)

Vol. 48 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1912)

Vol. 49 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1913)

Vol. 50 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1914)

Vol. 51 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1915)

Vol. 52 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1916)

Vol. 53 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1917)

Vol. 54 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1918)

Vol. 55 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1919)

Vol. 56 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1920)

Vol. 57 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1921)

Vol. 58 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1922)

Vol. 59 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1923)
Vol. 60 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1924)

Vol. 61 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1925)

Vol. 62 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1926)

Vol. 63 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1927)

Vol. 64 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1928)

Vol. 65 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1929)

Vol. 66 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1930)

Vol. 67 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1931)

Vol. 68 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1932)

Vol. 69 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1933)

Vol. 70 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1934)

Vol. 71 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1935)

Vol. 72 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1936)

Vol. 73 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1937)

Vol. 74 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1938)

Vol. 75 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1939)

Vol. 76 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1940)

Vol. 77 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1941)

Vol. 78 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1942)

Vol. 79 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1943)

Vol. 80 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1944)

Vol. 81 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1945)

Vol. 82 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1946)

Vol. 83 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1947)

Vol. 84 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1948)

Vol. 85 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1949)

Vol. 86 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1950)

Vol. 87 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1951)

Vol. 88 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1952)

Vol. 89 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1953)

Vol. 90 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1954)

Vol. 91 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1955)

Vol. 92 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1956)

Vol. 93 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1957): Samuel McIntire Bicentennial (April-July)

Vol. 94 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1958)

Vol. 95 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1959)

Vol. 96 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1960)

Vol. 97 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1961)

Vol. 98 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1962)

Vol. 99 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1963)

Links to Vols. 100-129 Essex Institute Historical Collections (1964-1993) Hathi Trust

Other Publications

Proceedings of the Essex Institute

 Bulletin of the Essex Institute: Communications

 Annual report of the Essex Institute

See more 

Digital Public Library of America

HathiTrust



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6 comments:

  1. Ivy MacMahon04 February, 2019 12:11

    I am looking for an offprint from Essex Institute Historical Collections. Volume 115 No. 3 July 1979
    Title: New Bedford Lawyers of the Past

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  2. Robin M05 February, 2019 12:59

    Ivy, contact your local library first, especially if your library is part of a network of libraries who borrow books, etc., from each other. Ask if you get order copies of the article through them. If not, the Essex Institute is now part of the Peabody Essex Museum. You can contact PEM's Phillips Library at research@pem.org for copies (or any library with a genealogy/history interest). https://www.pem.org/visit/library

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  3. Louise01 August, 2019 16:15

    Thank you so much for making so much great research accessible. Just wanted to let you know that some of the EIHC is missing. What is labeled as Vol XXI-XXIII actually contains a repeat of Vol XXI and part of Volume XXII. Pages 170-301 of Vol XXII are missing and all of Vol XXIII is missing. Unfortunately, it was something in Vol XXIII I was trying to see.

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    1. Robin M01 August, 2019 19:53

      Louise, thanks for letting me know! Try this for XXIII: https://books.google.com/books?id=6PwWAAAAIAAJ&

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  4. JIm15 March, 2020 13:57

    Robin, I hope you get this, I was at PEM just before it closed in late 1990s. I was able to look at the original documents from Essex Quarterly courts after the published books, 1690's I think. I was surprised to see documents that were unimportant to publish but great for family historians. I wanted to go back but then they closed. Do you know current location and status of Essex quarterly courts? Your Phillips library timeline is great but stops in 2018. Thanks. Jim

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    1. Robin M15 March, 2020 19:00

      Jim,
      I wrote about Massachusetts Bay court records with links (see post: http://genealogyink.blogspot.com/2020/01/massachusetts-bay-court-records.html). Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts, from 1636 to 1686 are available online. You'll also find sections of the records in various publications like Essex Antiquarian and New England Historical and Genealogical Register. When the Peabody Essex Museum closed the Phillips Library for renovations and later removal of entire collection to Rowley, Massachusetts, the state stopped using PEM as a repository for Essex county court records. These records are now at the Massachusetts Archives at Columbia Point, as part of the Judicial records section. You will need special permission to view the original documents. However, thanks to FamilySearch, the court records are online. (They are not database searchable yet.)
      Essex Quarterly Court and other courts, links to book versions: http://genealogyink.blogspot.com/2020/01/massachusetts-bay-court-records.html
      Essex county, Massachusetts Bay record images: https://www.familysearch.org/records/images/search-results?place=395425
      Suffolk County (Mass.) court files, 1629-1797: https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/240378?availability=Family%20History%20Library (click on camera icon on right to view digital versions)
      Massachusetts court records: https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/results?count=20&query=%2Bsubject_id%3A451484

      Massachusetts Archives: https://www.sec.state.ma.us/arc/arcidx.htm
      Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives: https://www.mass.gov/info-details/learn-about-the-court-archives
      PEM's Phillips Library https://www.pem.org/visit/library

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