Resources
Cape Ann
Cape Ann Tourist’s Guide by Roger W. Babson and Foster H. Saville (Cape Ann Community League, Inc., 1952-1954)
Dogtown (maps, history and more)
Halibut Point State Park ( Ma Gov Site)
Articles
Babson, Andrew N.C., The Isabel Babson Memorial Library and Midwifery in the Seventeenth Century
Babson, Katherine L. , Jr., Babsons and Universalism
Babson, Katherine L., Jr., Babsons in the Wars
Babson, Katherine L., Jr., Babsons Lost at Sea
Babson, Katherine L., Jr., Babsons with Large Families
Babson, Robert G., History of Beaver Dam and the James Babson Museum
Bittle, Camilla R., The Day the World Changed, Good Housekeeping, December 1980. (C. R. Bittle’s Profile).
Carter, Anne (Jill), A Cape Ann Story, Cape Ann Museum News & Views, April-June, 2012.
Carter, Anne (Jill), My Cape Ann Story
Babson Clan In Reunion At Old Shop, Gloucester Daily Times, 8/25/1958
Cooperage Not Oldest Building, Gloucester Daily Times, 7/12/1990
Historic Site of Babson Family Opens July 17, Gloucester Daily Times, 7/11/1931
Babson Genealogies and Other Books about Babsons
George Walter Chamberlain, The Babson Genealogy 1637-1930 (Wellesley Hills, Mass.: Babson Institute, 1934).
Catherine Finney-MacDougal, The Babson Genealogy, 1637-1977: descendants of Isabel Babson who arrived at Salem, Massachusetts in 1637 (Watertown, Mass.: 1978).
Ann Theopold Chaplin, The Babson Genealogy 1606-1997, Descendants of Thomas and Isabel Babson who first arrived in Salem, Massachusetts in 1637 (Gloucester: Babson Historical Association, 1997).
Alicia Crane Williams, The Babson Genealogy 1606-2017, Descendants of Thomas and Isabel Babson who first arrived in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1637, two volumes (Lowell: Babson Historical Association, 2017).
Robert Babson Alling, comp., Babson and Allied Families in America (Chicago: 1930).
John James Babson, History of the Town of Gloucester, Cape Ann, Including the Town of Rockport (Gloucester: 1860).
Thomas E. Babson, comp., Riverdale Story: a Family Scrap-book of the Forebears and Descendants of Osman and Marcia Babson (Gloucester, Mass.: 1950).
George Jay Babson, comp., A Brief and True Report Concerning the Colonial Babsons, Being an Account of the Family from its Known Beginning to the War of the Revolution (Washington, D.C., 1958).
Roger Babson
The Genealogy Entry for Roger Babson
This is the section of the genealogy on Roger Ward Babson. Roger established the Babson Historical Association.
You can learn more about Roger and other family members in the full two volume Babson Genealogy.
Details of Roger Ward Babson from the Babson College Website
New England Historical Society – Roger and Dogtown