George Francis Dow
George Francis Dow (January 7, 1868 - June 5, 1936) was an American antiquarian for the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, active in Massachusetts.[1]
Dow was born in Carroll, New Hampshire, and joined the American Antiquarian Society in 1910. The Parson Capen House (Topsfield, Massachusetts) was restored under his direction in 1913.[2]
Selected works
- Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, ed. George Francis Dow, 1911-1975.
- The Pirates of the New England Coast 1630-1730, 1923 (Co-authored with John Henry Edmonds).
- Domestic life in New England in the seventeenth century; a discourse, 1925.
- Whale ships and whaling; a pictorial history of whaling during three centuries, with an account of the whale fishery in colonial New England, 1925.
- Arts & Crafts in New England, 1704-1775, 1927.
- Slave Ships and Slaving, 1927.
- Every Day Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1935.
- History of Topsfield, Massachusetts, 1940.
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January 7, 1868 |
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June 5, 1936 |
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