Updated January 2007
BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS
By Judith Sargent Murray
Murray, Judith Sargent. The Gleaner: A Miscellaneous Production. Boston: I. Thomas and E.T. Andrews, 1798. Reissued Schenectady: Union College Press, 1992.
Stevens, Judith Sargent (later, Murray). Some Deductions from the System Promulgated in the Page of Divine Revelation: Ranged in the Order and Form of a Catechism Intended as an Assistant to the Christian Parent or Teacher. Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and Norwich, Connecticut: published anonymously, 1782; reissued by the Judith Sargent Murray Society.
On Judith Sargent Murray
Branson, Susan. These Fiery Frenchified Dames:Women and Political Culture in Early National Philadelphia. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001.
Dykeman, Therese Boos. American Women Philosophers 1650-1930: Six Exemplary Thinkers. New York: Edwin Mellon Press, 1993.
Emerson, Dorothy May. Standing Before Us: Unitarian Universalist Women and Social Reform, 1776-1936. (Boston: Skinner House Books, 2000).
Gibson, Rev. Gordon J., "The Rediscovery of Judith Sargent Murray,: in Howe, Charles A. Not Hell, But Hope, The John Murray Distinguished Lecture Series, 1987-1991. Lanoka Harbor: Murray Grove Association, 1991.
Kerber, Linda K. Women of the Republic. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988.
Kerber, Linda K. and Dehart, Jane Sherron. Women's America: Refocusing the Past. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Moynihan, Ruth Barnes, Russett, Cynthia, and Crumpacker, Laurie, eds. Second to None: A Documentary History of American Women. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1993.
Harris, Sharon M., ed. Selected Writings of Judith Sargent Murray. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Norton, Mary Beth. Liberty's Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1980.
Rossi, Alice. The Feminist Papers. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1973.
Sargent, Emma Worcester, arr. Epes Sargent of Gloucester and His Descendants. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1923.
Smith, Bonnie Hurd. The Letters I Left Behind: The Judith Sargent Murray Papers, Letter Book 10. Salem: Judith Sargent Murray Society, 2005.
Smith, Bonnie Hurd. From Gloucester to Philadelphia in 1790: Observations, Anecdotes, and Thoughts from the Letters of Judith Sargent Murray. Cambridge: Judith Sargent Murray Society, 1998.
Smith, Caroline Turner. Caroline Augusta Sargent Turner. Chatham: Caroline Turner Smith, 1995.
Early Novels (with references to Judith Sargent Murray)
Sherburne, Henry. The Oriental Philanthropist. Portsmouth: Wm. Treadwell & Co., 1800.
Wood, Sally Sayward Barrell Keating. Julia and the Illuminated Baron. Portsmouth: Oracle Press, 1800.
On John Murray and Universalism
Bisbee, Frederick A. From Good Luck to Gloucester. Boston: The Murray Press, 1920.
Cassara, Ernest, ed. Universalism in America: A Documentary History of a Liberal Faith. Boston: Skinner House, 1971. Cleaveland, John. An Attempt to Nip in the Bud, the unscriptural Doctrine of Universal Salvation, and some other dangerous errors connected with it; which a certain stranger, who calls himself John Murray.... Salem: E. Russell, 1776.
Croswell,
Andrew. Mr. Murray Unmask’d, in which among
other things, is shewn, that his doctrine of universal salvation, is
inimical to vertue, and productive of all manner of wickedness; and
that Christians
of all denominations ought to be on their guard against it.
Boston: J. Kneeland, 1775.
Eddy, Richard. Universalism in Gloucester, Mass. Gloucester: Proctor Brothers, 1892.
Howe, Charles A., ed. Not Hell, But Hope. The John Murray Distinguished Lecture Series, 1987-1991. Lanoka Harbor: Murray Grove Association, 1991.
Howe, Charles A. The Larger Faith: A History of Universalism in America. Boston: Skinner House Books, 1993.
Miller, Russell E. The Larger Hope: The First Century of the Universalist Church in America, 1770-1870. Boston: Unitarian Universalist Association, 1979.
Murray, John. Letters and Sketches of Sermons. Boston: Munroe and Francis, 1812.
Murray, John. Records of the Life of the Rev. John Murray. Boston: Munroe and Francis, 1816. Reissued many times.
Relly, James. Union: or A Treatise of the Consanguinity and Affinity between Christ and His Church. London, 1759.
Skinner, Clarence R. and Cole, Alfred S. Hell’s Ramparts Fell. Boston: Universalist Publishing House, 1941.
Gloucester History
Babson, John J. History of the Town of Gloucester, Cape Ann. Gloucester: Proctor Brothers, 1860. Reissued Gloucester: Peter Smith, 1972.
Garland, Joseph E. The Fish and the Falcon. Charleston: The History Press, 2006. A reissue of Guns Off Gloucester.
Hurd, Hamilton D. History of Essex County, Massachusetts. Philadelphia: J.W. Lewis & Co., 1888.
Pringle, James R. History of the Town of Gloucester, Cape Ann, Massachusetts. Reissued Gloucester: Gloucester City Archives, 1997 (orig. 1892).
Ray, Mary, comp., Dunlap, Susan V., ed. Gloucester, Massachustts Historical Time-Line, 1000-1999. Gloucester: Gloucester Archives Committee, 2002.
Boston History
Kay, Jane Holtz. Lost Boston. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1980.
Kirker, Harold. The Architecture of Charles Bulfinch. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998.
Ross, Marjorie Drake. The Book of Boston: The Federal Period, 1775 to 1837. New York: Hastings House Publishers, 1961.
Shurtleff, Nathaniel B. A Topographical and Historical Description of Boston. Boston: Alfred Mudge and Son, 1871.
Wentworth, Michael, w. Clark, Elizabeth Lamb. The Boston Library Society, 1794-1994. Boston: The Boston Atheneaum, 1995.
Wright, Conrad Edick, and Viens, Katheryn P., eds. Entrepreneurs: The Boston Business Community, 1700-1850. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1997.
New England History
Perley, Sidney. Historic Storms of New England. Salem: Salem Press Publishing and Printing Company, 1891. Reissued Beverly: Commonwealth Editions, 2001.
Phillips, James Duncan. Salem in the Eighteenth Century. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1937.
Robotti, Frances Diane. Chronicles of Old Salem. New York: Bonanza Books, 1948.
Biographies, Biographical Treatments, and Autobiographies
McCullough, David. John Adams. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001.
Prince, Nancy. A Narrative of the Life and Travels of Mrs. Nancy Prince. Boston: Nancy Prince, 1853.
Rebora, Carrie, Staiti, Paul, Hirshler, Erica E., Stebbins, Theodore E. Jr., Troyen, Carol. John Singleton Copley in America. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1995.
Shipton, Clifford K. Sibley's Harvard Graduates: Biographical Sketches of Those Who Attended Harvard College. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1965-1975.
ARTICLES AND PAMPHLETS
Ball, William T. W. The Old Federal Street Theatre. Boston: The Bostonian Society, vol. 8, 1911.
Barnett, James F. Jr., "Preliminary Report on the Bingaman Cemetery, Adams County, Mississippi." Mississippi Department of Archives and History, 1984, unpublished.
Cushing, John D., "Notes on Disestablishment in Massachusetts, 1780-1833." William and Mary Quarterly, January 1969.
Low, Willa B. Winthrop Sargent, Soldier and Statesman. Gloucester: Sargent-Murray-Gilman-Hough House Associates, 1976.
Nylander, Richard C. The Jonathan Sayward House, York, Maine. Boston: Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, 1979.
Sammarco, Anthony. "At Dorchester Academy, Proper Young Ladies Learned Needlework." Dorchester Community News, 5 November 1993.
NEWSPAPERS AND JOURNALS
Boston Magazine (Boston, Massachusetts); Judith Sargent Murray's poetry appeared in this magazine.
Boston Weekly Magazine (Boston, Massachusetts); Judith Sargent Murray's poetry appeared in this magazine.
Columbian Centinel (Boston, Massachusetts)
Federal Orrery (Boston, Massachusetts); Judith Sargent Murray's 1794 column for this newspaper titled "The Reaper" was reissued by the Judith Sargent Murray Society.
Gentleman and Lady's Town and Country Magazine (Boston, Massachusetts); Judith Sargent Murray's 1784 essay titled "Desultory Thoughts upon the Utility of Encouraging a Degree of Self-complacency, Especially in Female Bosoms" was reissued by the Judith Sargent Murray Society in their monograph Forming a New Era in Female History.
Massachusetts Magazine (Boston, Massachusetts); Judith Sargent Murray's 1790 essays titled "On the Equality of the Sexes" and "On the Domestic Education of Children" were reissued by the Judith Sargent Murray Society in their monograph Forming a New Era in Female History. Judith published many of her "Gleaner" essays that appeared in this magazine from 1792-4 in her 1798 book The Gleaner. This book was reissued by Union College Press.
Massachusetts Mercury/The Mercury (Boston, Massachusetts)
Mississippi Gazette (Natchez, Mississippi)
Monthly Anthology (Boston, Massachusetts)
MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS
Judith Sargent Murray Papers, Mississippi Department of Archives and History
Winthrop Sargent Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society
LEGAL DOCUMENTS
Estate of Judith Sargent Murray, Adams County Register of Probate
Estate of John Stevens Jr., Essex County Register of Probate
Estate of William Stevens, Essex County Register of Probate
McCarl, Mary Rhinelander. Gloucester Slaves in Church Records, Sorted by Alphabetized Owner's Name. Unpublished manuscript. Available at the Cape Ann Historical Association.
Pruitt, Bettye Hobbs, ed. The Massachusetts Tax Valuation List of 1771. Boston: G.K. Hall & Co., 1978.
REFERENCE AND GENEALOGICAL RESOURCES
Atkinson, New Hampshire Historical Society files.
Billerica, Massachusetts Historical Society files.
Boston Directory (1796, 1798, 1800).
Boston, Massachusetts Vital Records.
Bostonian Society files.
Cambridge, Massachusetts Historical Commission files.
Cambridge, Massachusetts Vital Records.
Cape Ann Historical Association files.
Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Scribner, 1932.
Exeter, New Hampshire Vital Records.
Gloucester, Massachusetts Vital Records.
Hampstead, New Hampshire Public Library files.
Harvard University Archives files.
Historic New England, Inc. files (formerly SPNEA)
Historical Society of Pennsylvania files.
Kunitz, Stanley J., ed. and Haycraft, Howard. American Authors, 1600–1900. New York: H.W. Wilson, 1938.
Newbury, Massachusetts Vital Records.
Newburyport, Massachusetts Vital Records.
Newton, Massachusetts Historical Society files.
Philadelphia Directory (1791, 1798).
Maine Historical Society files (Portland).
Portsmouth Athenaeum files.
Portsmouth, New Hampshire Vital Records.
Ray, Mary, comp., Dunlap, Susan V., ed. Gloucester, Massachustts Historical Time-Line, 1000-1999. Gloucester: Gloucester Archives Committee, 2002.
Quartermaster Museum files.
Salem Maritime National Historic Site files.
Salem, Massachusetts Vital Records.
Saltonstall, Richard M. Ancestry and Descendants of Sir Richard Saltonstall. Cambridge: The Riverside Press, 1897.
Sargent, Emma Worcester, arr. Epes Sargent of Gloucester and His Descendants. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1923.
Thatcher, James, M.D. American Medical Biography or Memoirs of Eminent Physicians who have Flourished in America. Boston: Richardson & Lord and Cottons & Barnard, 1828.
Watertown, Massachusetts Vital Records.
Watertown, Massachusetts Public Library files.