Donations of Books and Other Artifacts

A major genealogical resource for Pioneers is the Lamson Library of the Piscataqua Pioneers—also known as the Lamson Papers—a collection primarily related to the history of New Hampshire, Maine, and Massachusetts including many biographies and genealogies of specific families.

Individuals are encouraged to contribute published and unpublished genealogies and community histories within the Piscataqua region by emailing curator@piscataquapioneers.org.

There are member-donated publications of interest to Piscataqua area researchers which include many town histories, many surname books, a complete set of the New Hampshire State Papers, an alphabetical listing of Flagg's Maine Revolutionary War Pensioners living in Maine and many other books too numerous to list here. Each book has a Piscataqua Pioneers Lamson Collection Bookplate.

Shadow Echo Me—the Life and Times of Captain Thomas Wiggin 1601-1666, The Making of American Values, was recently donated, as was the seven volumes of The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England 1634-35 Volumes I_VII by Robert Charles Anderson:  Great Migration Study Project New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 2003. This is an excellent resource for all genealogists and if you have not been to the Dimond Library at UNH in Durham, New Hampshire, this might be an incentive to go.

Cash donations to the Pioneers can be made by visiting: https://piscataquapioneers.org/donations-dues.html