The Dennis Historical Society and the Howes Family Association are pleased to announce the limited edition of the NEW

Howes Genealogy
1637-2004
by Robert A. Howes, Lt Col. US Army (Ret)

670+ pages, 8 1/2 x 11, hard cover, bound in Royal Blue Buckram leatherette with gold embossing & sealed in plastic

First Howes Genealogy to be published in 114 years - since the 1892 book by Joshua Crowell Howes.

The Howes Genealogy, the culmination of over forty years effort by the author, is a crucial and significant milestone achievement and completely documents the family throughout the United States and elsewhere.

This fully indexed Howes Genealogy contains thirteen generations of the Descendants of Thomas and Mary (Burr) Howes of Yarmouth, MA as well as partial genealogies of other Howes families in America. It is complete with important photographs, notable appendices and other material of substantial interest.

This volume is available now and can be ordered only from the Dennis Historical Society.

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Dennis Source Records
Volume 1:
Church Records

Transcriptions of the Town of Dennis, Massachusetts
compiled by Burton Nathaniel Derick

704 pages, 8 1/2 x 11, hardcover, blue cloth with gold embossing

This marvelous volume is an absolute must have for genealogists, historians and anyone whose ancestry originated in Dennis or who has an interest in early Cape Cod History. It is the perfect companion piece to the new Howes Genealogy.

Historian Derick points out that these church records contain valuable genealogical information not found anywhere else except in the early church vital records for all families with Cape Cod heritage. This book also provides an extensive and fascinating insight into the lives and customs of these early Cape Cod inhabitants.

This volume contains five sections, each separately indexed and featuring a separate church. These are: Records of the 2d. Church in Yarmouth, The East Precinct, now Dennis (1727-1807); The diaries of Rev. Nathan Stone (1737-1804); Records of the South Dennis Congregational Church; Records of the Reorganized Latter Day Saints Church of Dennis Port (1866–1911); and the West Harwich Baptist Church Records (1773–1950).

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Privateers, Pirates and Beyond:
Memoirs of Lucy Lord Howes Hooper

Transcribed by her Great Granddaughter

Gerry Watters

377 pages, hardcover, light blue cloth with gold embossing

This fascinating true story is an exact word-by-word transcription of a diary kept from 1862 through 1909. It begins when Lucy, a young woman from Dennis, Massachusetts, accompanies her merchant sea captain husband Benjamin Perkins Howes aboard the clipper ship Southern Cross. Journal entries include dramatic descriptions of the ship’s capture by privateers. One subsequent voyage involves an encounter with Chinese pirates en route from Hong Kong to Japan, culminating in frightful tragedy.

This life chronicle provides a significant insight into everyday living in 19th Century New England and is interwoven with a woman’s personal opinions and philosophies on religion and a variety of other subjects. Lucy’s story demonstrates the great courage and determination of a remarkable woman.

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