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Marian Otis: marriage certificate; death certificate

Harrison Gray Otis: marriage certificate; death certificate; The Otis Family in America by William H. Otis, 1924. pp. 270 - 274; Veterans records from the Civil War and the Spanish American war.

Eliza Ann Wetherby: marriage certificate; death certificate;
Civil War Diary: in author's possession; St. Paul's Diary and letter to the Women's Missionary Circle, Santa Barbara, CA: in author's possession; photographs of St. Paul's taken in 1991 by Stephen A. Thal, Kentfield, CA; California, Where Sets the Sun , The Writings of Eliza A. Otis in poetry and prose, Assembled, Arranged and Edited by her husband, The Times Mirror Company, Los Angeles 1905; Memorial Book published for the Ceremonies held at the base of the Noble Monument Reared in Her honor by husband, family and friends, Hollywood Cemetery, May 30, 1910.

Stephen Otis: The Otis Family in America by William H. Otis, 1924: pp. 168, 270 - 274 ; Milestone's, unpublished memoirs of Harrison Gray Otis, author's copy.

Sarah Dyar: History of Washington County, Ohio, 1881, reprinted 1976, pp. 619-620.; A Preliminary Genealogy of the Dyar Family, prepared by Harrison Gray Dyar, Washington, D. C. 1903.; Census records, 1820, 1850,

Charles Thomas Wetherby: Old Records of the Town of Fitchburg, Vol. 2.; History of Marietta and Washington County, Ohio, Martin Andrews, 1902, p.859.

Nancy Hyde: Old Records of the Town of Fitchburg, Vol. 2.

The Otis Family: The Otis Family in America, by William H. Otis, 192: pp. 35 - 56, 70 -73, 85 - 87, 119 - 121, 168. Pension granted to Barnabas on his service in the Revolution, (File No. S/9612); Census records: 1790; 1800; 1810; 1820; 1830; 1840; Vital Records - Norfolk, Litchfield, CT; One Bassett Family in America, Buell Burdette Bassette, 1926 p. 763. Cemetery Inscriptions of Marion County, Ohio, Paul and Barbara Midlam, 1985;

The Dyar Family: A Preliminary Genealogy of the Dyar Family, prepared by Harrison Gray Otis, Washington, D. C., 1903; pp 1-12.; History of Washington County, Ohio, 1881, reprinted 1976, pp. 619-620. Cemetery records of the Rainbow Cemetery; Vital Records of Weymouth, Massachusetts to the year 1850, 1910.; re Lydia Hough: A Report of the Record Commissioners, Boston, 1888: Boston Marriages from 1700 -1809 by Edward W. McGlenen; re Lydia Hough's tombstone: The Genealogical Magazine, July 1905, pp 129-131.
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The Wetherby Family: Early Generations of the Wetherby-Witherby-Wetherbee-Witherbee Family in New England by Winthrop Wetherbee, 1945 Daniel Shed Genealogy, Frank E. Shedd, Boston, 1921; Old Records of the Town of Fitchburg; Vol 2: pp 378-9; Genealogy and History of Watertown; Re: Ephraim and Keziah Wetherby - Lunenberg North Burial Ground list.
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The Chamberlin Family:Old Records of the Town of Fitchburg , Vol. 3. p. 68; Vol. 2; Town History of Swanzey, NH: p. 311.; Vital Records of Walpole, MA; Vital Records of Newton, MA; Vital Records of Cambridge, MA; History of Cambridge, MA, 1630-1877, 1877; death certificate for Elisha Chamberlain (1841)

The Hyde Family: Newton, Massachusetts 1679-1779 a Biographical Directory; Newton Vital Records to 1850 (1905) pp. 96, 199, 395. Winchendon Vital Records to 1850 (1909) pp. 43, 134,200. William Ward Genealogy, Charles Martyn (1925) p.114; History of Newton MA, Francis Jackson, 1854. p. 366.

Appendix: In Small Things Forgotten, The Archeology of Early American Life, James Deetz, Anchor Books, Anchor Press/Doubleday, New York 1977.