The Real Founders of New England, Stories of Their Life Along the Coast, 1602-1628; by Charles Knowles Bolton; Paperback; xvi + 206 pp; Published: 1929, Reprinted: 2004; ISBN: 9780806306148; Item # CF570D

Mr. Bolton shows us that there were planters and settlers, fishermen and traders all along the New England coast years before the landing of the Mayflower. Genealogists will want to pore over Bolton's treatment of the intriguing Popham Colony of 1608 and the valuable appendices to the work, which identify hundreds of lesser-known early New Englanders.