Recommended Reading
NOTE: this list includes several well-known people from outside Brookline who were in town in significant, if temporary, ways. Among them were Ellen Craft, Henry "Box" Brown, John Brown and one of his sons.
Some Additional Useful Sources:
Some Additional Useful Sources:
- History of the Town of Brookline, Massachusetts John Gould Curtis
- Brookline Mass: Vital Records to 1850 whose source is chiefly First Parish, Brookline records
- H. Cummings, Walnut Street Cemetery Records, 1922. (http://www.cemetery.highstreethill.org/history.html)
- Muddy River & Brookline Records, 1634-1838 (the record of town meetings)
- MA Tax Valuation List of 1771. A List or Return on Oath of the Names of the Householders in the Town of Brookline, in the County of Suffolk, in the Colony of Massachusetts Bay; and of the Number of the souls in Each Family, Feb 16, 1776 (includes a column for number of "Negroes & Molattoes in each family"),
- Brookline Historical Publication Society and Brookline Historical Society Proceedings