Bullard Family Papers
A descriptive catalog of the Bullard manuscript collection at the
Old Sturbridge Village Research Library


Processed by Daphne T. Stevens
 

351 pp., 8.5 X 5.5 in., indexed, cloth.  ISBN 0-9612610-5-6. $65

    
An important resource for historians interested in 18th and 19th century rural life, and
for libraries. Includes descriptions of the principal persons whose records these are, and
genealogical outlines of the relationships among them.

 
 
The Bullard Colonial Farm Library

Catalogued by Florence and Alvan Bullard, newspapers by Martha DeWolf
 

151 pp, 8.5 X 5.5 in., cloth. ISBN 0-9612610-8-0. $55

    
This is an interpreted catalog of the books, journals, magazines, and newspapers that accumulated
in the homestead of a reasonably educated, pious New England farming family over two centuries
(1700-1900) and several generations. It constitutes an accurate record of the printed word that
inspired, instructed, and entertained such a family.

 
 
Recollections and Reminiscences
of the last generation to grow up at the Bullard Colonial Farm

Enlarged, indexed, and annotated by John M. Kingsbury
 

199 pp, 8.5 X 5.5 in., cloth. ISBN 0-961260-9-9. $35

    
Captivating well illustrated essays and background information on New England farm life in the
middle and late 1800s, from both male and female points of view, published originally in 1927 - 1932
as a legacy for future generations of the Bullard Family; now indexed and thoroughly annotated for the
general reader.

 
 
The Bullards of the Bullard Colonial Farm
Volume 1: The Ancestry of Titus and
Esther Whiting Bullard


By John M. Kingsbury
 

364 pp, 8.5 X 5.5 in., cloth ISBN 978-0-9722854-2-1. $36

     Some genealogies read like telephone directories. This is a different kind of genealogy. Although it
contains the vital statistics and demographic details of a scholarly genealogy, it also includes
biographical information and background essays on many of the entries which bring them alive in
historical context. Bullard ancestors were occasionally involved in major historic actions, but often
participated in the ordinary events of their times. They attended public schools, served in militia and
local government, founded churches, farmed the land, and built mills and roads. The Bullard ancestral
record expresses the reality of colonial American history through the lives and experiences of ordinary
people, not just leaders or public figures.

     The library of the New England Historic Genealogical Society in Boston has awarded
The Ancestry of Titus and Esther Whiting Bullard their top, five-gold-star rating.

 
 
The Bullards of the Bullard Colonial Farm
Volume 2: The Descendants of Titus and
Esther Whiting Bullard


By John M. Kingsbury
 

240 pp, 8.5 X 5.5 in., cloth ISBN 978-0-9722854-3-1. $36

     The main purpose of this Bullard genealogy is to gather up and present the family record in
accurate, orderly, and readable fashion. Such a record emphasizes the vital statistics, with limited
additional description of some notable lives and fortunes.

     Titus and Esther Whiting Bullard had five children, three girls and two boys. The lives and fortunes
of these children and all of their descendants are followed down to the year of publication. All five
children were brought up at the Bullard Farm in the days when it was a working farm, the primary
source of the family income and the largest single source of the food they ate until they left home. One
of the two sons stayed on the farm and made his lifetime living from it. The other son went to work in
Boston, married well, and by the end of his life was a very wealthy man. Of the three daughters, one
married a man who in time was counted among the wealthiest citizens of Boston. Another daughter
married his brother but this line ended abruptly in repeated tragedy. The third daughter married a
Holliston farmer. Their only child married an Englishman who was deeply involved in creating the vast
copper and nitrate mines and fortunes of Chile and Peru. These outcomes from a single, simple,
farming family are remarkable.

 
 
           
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