The Tri-Town Transcript and Pennysaver were digitized as part of a collaborative project with the Boxford Town Library and is available to browse online here:
Boxford Online Newspapers, 1962-2005
The Boxford Historic Document Center also contains the following physical newspaper collections:
Local Newspapers:
Boxford Chronicle, 1986-1988
Chronicle and Transcript, 2017-2021
Town Crossing, 2002-2005 (9 issues)
Tri-town-Transcript, 2003-2018
Village Reporter, 1997-2009
Special Newspaper Issues Covering Storms:
Floods of 1936 and 1938
Blizzards of 1969 and 1978
Floods of 1987 and 1996
Lincoln Assassination and Civil War Aftermath- April 18- June 3, 1865
Boston Post, Volume LXVI- Number 91, April 18, 1865
Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, No.500-Vol. XX, New York, April 29, 1865
The Boston Herald, May 19, 1865
Daily Evening Traveller, Vol. XXI. No. 36, May 15, 1865
Evening Gazette, Vol. LI. No. 17, April 29, 1865
Harper’s Weekly, Vol. IX.-No. 435, April 29, 1865
Harper’s Weekly, Vol. IX.-No. 440, June 3, 1865
Harper’s Weekly, Vol. IX.-No. 437, May 13, 1865
US Bicentennial
The Lawrence Eagle-Tribune, July 3, 1976, Bicentennial “The Heritage of 76”
Beverly Times, July 12, 1976, Tall Ships
Boston Sunday Globe, July 11, 1976, Tall Ships
Boston Sunday Globe, January 16, 1977, New England
Boston Globe, Special Edition- The Birth of Boston, March 30, 1980
Boston Globe, Special Edition Section for Nation’s Bicentennial, September 12, 1976
Boston Globe Magazine, September 18, 1983
Boxford, England visit
Tri Town Transcript
May 5, 1976
Photos- Eileen Johnson, Roger Kingsbury (Boxford, England)
July 28, 1976, Vol. 17, No 30
Photos- Richard Hopping, Mrs. Hopping, Mr. and Mrs. Huffsmith, Peter Race, Gretchen Simpson (Boxford)
Photos- Rita Blewitt, Graham Peachey, Susan Howarth, Mark and Jane Blewitt (England)
August 11, 1976
Photos- Eileen Johnson, Charles Maltby, Ginny Harvey, Rita Blewitt, Peter Blewitt, Peggy Nelson, Camilla Coolidge, David Nelson, Graham Nelson, Olive Tarbet, Edna Swan (England)
Photos- Lista Lincoln, Steve Lincoln, Clark “Bing” Miller, Mr. and Mrs. George Hildebrand, Charles Killam, Joanne Gardner (Boxford)
Times, August 6, 1976
Photos- Lillian Knisely, Charles Maltby, Rachel Schneiderman (Boxford), Dan Marr
Lawrence Eagle Tribune
July 26, 1976
Photos- Olive Tarbet, Cecil Hughes, Roger Kingsbury, Juliana Swan, Lee Ridgeway (England)
Photos- Carlyle Thomas, Charles Killam, Edmund Mead, Dede Timpson, Lilian Knisely, Judy Huffsmith (Boxford)
July 27, 1976
Photos- Cecil Hughes, Samantha Bendall, Neil Blewitt, Graham Baldwin, Shona Bendall (England)
Photos- Charles, Christopher and Patricia Maltby (Boxford)
July 28, 1976
Photos- Olive Tarbet (England), Bernard Schultz (Boxford)
July 29, 1976
Photos- Frizzell Family, Clauson Family (England)
July 30, 1976
Photos- James Kingsbury, Ruth Kingsbury, Nicholas Kingsbury, Robin Jarman, Christine Baldwin, Marian Jarman (England)
August 3, 1976
Photos- Rep. Robert Buell, Benjy, Lista and Stephen Lincoln, Charles and Chris Maltby (Boxford)
Photos- Peter and Rita Blewitt (England)
August 4, 1976
Photos- Winston Rose (Masconomet), Susan Howarth (England)
August 5, 1976
Photos- Bob Kaplan (MIT), Charles Killam, Kara Schneiderman (Boxford)
Photos- Mark Blewitt, Nicholas Kingsbury, Olive Tarbet, Patrick Harris- Deans, Janine Clausen, Jody Picone (England)
August 6, 1976
Photos- Clark Miller, Charles Maltby, Christopher Maltby, Lista Lincoln, Benjy Lincoln, Mr and Mrs. Robert Cole, Charles Knisley (Boxford), Olive Tarbet, Roger Kingsbury (England), Dora Sore, Merton Barrows, Rosetta Hillier
The Haverhill Mass Gazette
December 10, 1975
Photos- Lillian Knisley, Dorothy Truman (Boxford)
Boston Sunday Globe
August 1, 1976
Photos- Christopher Kingsbury, Ruth Kingsbury, James Kingsbury, Nicholas Kingsbury, Juliana Swan (England), Eve Coniff, Chandra Coniff (Boxford)
Salem Mass Evening Newspaper
July 31, 1976
Photos- Charles Killam, Richard Hoppins, Mrs. James Coniff, Chandra Coniff, Mrs. LeRoy Curtis, Lillian Knisely, Carlyle Thomas (Boxford)
Miscellaneous or single-issue papers (oversize):
Essex County Observer, June 20, 1968
Boxford Historical Society Strawberry Festival, Byron Smith, Mrs. Robert Cathcart, Mrs. Robert Dow, Mr. and Mrs. Loren Wood, Mrs. Thomas Greenman, Mrs. Alfred Lausten, Mrs. Robert Manning, Marjorie Walsh, Mrs. John Becker, Mrs. Daniel Wright, Rande Melon, Connie Smith, Carol Smith, Mrs. Willian C. Abbot Jr., Mrs. Webster B. Brockelman Jr., Mrs. William Walsh, Mr. and Mrs. Harland Calkins, Mrs. Winthrop P. Haynes, Mr. and Mrs. Craig Falk, Holyoke-French House
New Teachers hired, Marilyn Guptil, Kenneth Keating
Patricia Emerson, Lori Emerson, Stephanie Srybny, 4-H
Howard M. Jones obituary
Douglas A. Warren, Police Chief “Lock Your Car” campaign
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Austin announce birth of son, David Charles
Boston Globe 1936 Flood Souvenir
Lawrence Eagle Tribune, Special Pictorial Flood Supplement, March 28, 1936
Salem Evening News, May 20, 1937
Salem Evening News, May 24, 1935
Salem Evening News, August 30, 1902
The Boston Herald, December 10, 1925
Georgetown Advocate, July 5, 1890, Vol. 16, No. 42
Georgetown Advocate, September 1, 1888, Vol. 14, No. 50
Rufus W. Emerson 54th Birthday celebration gathering at 106 Main St.
John Spofford family reunion, 220th anniversary gathering, Rebecca E. Pearl, Alden H. Spofford, Mr and Mrs. Sam’l Killam, Thos. L. Spofford, Mrs. Jas. Sawyer, B.S. Barnes and wife, H. M. Spofford and wife, Fannie E. Killam
Georgetown Advocate, June 16, 1888, Vol. 14, No. 39
Fire on Bald Hill
Georgetown Advocate, June 25, 1887, Vol. 13, No. 40
Boxford Base Ball team, Conant, Kaler, S. Bremner, Knowlton, Stevens, Parkhurst, F. Bremner, Woods
Gertie French
Spofford Family picnic
Boston Cultivator, May 14, 1842, Volume 9, No. 20
Boston Cultivator, May 28, 1842, Volume 4, No. 22
Boston Cultivator, June 4, 1842, Volume 4, No. 23
Boston Cultivator, June 11, 1842, Vol. 4, No. 24
Boston Cultivator, June 18, 1842, Vol. 4, No. 25
Boston Cultivator, January 14, 1843, Vol. 5, No. 2
Boston Cultivator, July 8, 1843, Vol.5, No. 27
Boston Cultivator, July 29, 1843, Vol.5, No. 30
Boston Cultivator, October 28, 1843, Vol. 5, No. 43
Boston Cultivator, August 24, 1844, Vol. 6, No. 34
Boston Cultivator, September 7, 1844, Vol. 6, No. 36
Boston Cultivator, November 2, 1844, Vol. 6, No.44
Boston Cultivator, November 9, 1844, Vol. 6, No. 45
Boston Cultivator, November 30, 1844, Vol. 6, No. 48
Boston Cultivator, February 15, 1845, (Vol. missing) No. 7
Lawrence Daily Eagle, Lawrence, Massachusetts Centennial Edition, June 13, 1953, Vol. 169, No. 141
The Lawrence Daily Eagle, February 1, 1890, Vol. 44, No. 28
Lawrence Telegram, August 30, 1918, (3 O’Clock edition)
Lawrence Telegram, September 3, 1918
Funeral of Mrs. Grace P. W. Foster (Grace P. Webster) in West Boxford- George Pearl Webster, Charles M. Lewis, Ernest L.
Smith, Mrs. Sidney C. Rea, Mrs. Edward Disbrow, Harry L. Cole, Simeon Pearl, Mrs. Ernest L. Souther (Mary C. Foster)
Trumpet and Universalist Magazine, July 21, 1832, Vol. 5, No. 4 new series, Vol.14, No. 680
Trumpet and Universalist Magazine, August 3, 1839, (Old series Vol. 21, whole No. 1047), Vol. 12, No. 7
Trumpet and Universalist Magazine, April 13, 1861, Vol. 33, No. 46
Trumpet and Universalist Magazine, November 9, 1833, No 20 new series
Pictorial Alexander’s Messenger, April 14, 1847
Pictorial Alexander’s Messenger, May 5, 1847
Pictorial Alexander’s Messenger, June 2, 1847
Reproductions of Front Pages of Newspapers- History’s Greatest Headlines 1865-1963
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, May 25, 1883, Vol. 44, No 144
The Boston Post, June 1, 1894
Boston Evening Transcript, June 27, 1925
Book Section-A Literary Pilgrimage Along the North Shore
Essex County Mercury, August 26, 1885, Vol. 46, No. 34
History of the church in West Boxford by Rev. Calvin E. Park
Rev. Parsons, Rev. Samuel Phillips, Daniel Wood, Cornelius Brown, Stephen Runnels, Luke Hovey, Joseph Hovey, Caleb Brown, Jonathan Cole, John Hovey, Zebediah Foster, John Kimball, Nathan Kimball, Rev. John Cushing, Hon. Caleb Cushing, Rev. Moses Hale, John F. Kimball Esq., S. Rowe, Rev. Peter Eaton, Rev. Adams, Rev. Charles M. Pierce, Rev. James McLean, Rev. Charles L. Hubbard, Captain John Tyler
Georgetown Advocate, April 23, 1881, Vol. 7, No 28
Deacon Samuel Bixby died April 21, 1881, in his home
Steven S. Adams, son of Issac Adams
The Productions of Boxford by Sidney Perley
Rev. Oliver Peabody, Rev. John Rogers, Rev. Moses Hale, Rev. James Scales, Rev. Stephen Peabody, Rev. David Jewett, Rev. Humphrey C. Perley, Rev. Peter S. Eaton, Rev. Albert B. Peabody, Rev. Samuel H. Emery, Rev. Benjamin Chadwick, Rev. John H. Eaton
A New Ice Man, S.A. Bixby
The Topsfield Townsman, January 12, 1895, Vol. 1, No. 1
Marriage performed in Boxford by Rev. W. S. Coggin
The Topsfield Townsman, March 2, 1895, Vol. 1, No. 8
The Topsfield Townsman, March 23, 1895, Vol. 1, No. 11
The Topsfield Townsman, March 30, 1895, Vol. 1, No. 12
The Topsfield Townsman, June 1, 1895, Vol. 1, No. 21
The Topsfield Townsman, June 2 (misprint- June 7th), 1895, Vol. 1, No. 22
Mary Sawyer, Young Ladies’ Mission circle
The Topsfield Townsman, June 15, 1895, Vol. 1, No. 23
The Topsfield Townsman, June 22, 1895, Vol. 1, No. 24
The Sunday Herald, May 20, 1888
Additional miscellaneous or single-issue papers:
Macy, Rowland H. and his stores, 1923
Joseph Kittredge nomination, Essex North District, 1831
Youth’s Companion, 1835
The Weekly Messenger (Groveland and West Newbury), 1891
Andover Townsman, March 20, 1896
Boston Sunday Herald, July 29 and August 5, 1888 (incomplete)
Boston Daily Globe, April 19, 1897 (pp. 5-8)
Boston Evening Transcript, October 28, 1922 (“The Boston that Burned” 1872)
Boston Globe, 1978 (“Boston’s 10 Most Exclusive Suburbs”)
East Anglican Daily Times and Suffolk Free Press (Boxford, England), 1976
Illustrated War News, May 1898 (Cuba history)
The Christian Science Monitor, November 25, 1908 (facsimile)
Fitchburg Sentinel, May 17, 1889
Lawrence Eagle-Tribune, September 25, 1990 (100 years edition, 1890-1990)
Lawrence Daily Eagle, December 18, 1937 (radio section)
Lawrence Eagle-Tribune, April 11, 1988 (Pulitzer prize)
Daily Evening Item (Lynn, MA), November 7, 1888
Salem Evening News, March 12, 1957 (leather industry)
Boxford Historical Society Newspapers on Deposit at the Document Center:
Box N1
Folder 1 – Front page news, 1936-1945
Flood, Boston Post, March 21, 1936
Flood, Boston Post, March 20, 1936
President Roosevelt death, Boston Post, April 13, 1945
German surrender, Haverhill Gazette, May 7, 1945
Victory Edition, Haverhill Gazette, May 8, 1945
Folder 2 – Front page news, 1954-1955
Hurricane, Haverhill Gazette, September 1, 1954
Hurricane, Boston Post, September 1, 1954
Hurricane, Boston Globe, September 6, 1954
Hurricane, Boston Globe, September 12, 1954
Hurricane, Boston Globe, September 13, 1954
Hurricane, Boston Globe Pictorial Magazine, September 19, 1954
Storm, Boston Globe, August 20, 1955
Storm, Boston Globe, August 21, 1955
Box N2
Folder 3 – Front page news, 1963-1965
Kennedy assassination, Lawrence Eagle-Tribune, November 23, 1963
Rena R. Paquette death, Manchester Union Leader, February 5, 1964
Rena R. Paquette death, New Hampshire Sunday News, February 9, 1964
Lyndon B. Johnson election, Boston Globe, November 4, 1964
Selma, Alabama demonstrations, Boston Globe, March 15, 1965
Voting rights bill, Boston Globe, March 17, 1965
1960s protests, St. Petersburg Times, October 26, 1965
Northeast power outage, Boston Herald, November 10, 1965
Northeast power outage, Boston Globe, November 10, 1965
Folder 4 – Front page news, 1966 and 1968
Sales tax bill, Boston Herald, February 18, 1966
Sales tax bill, Boston Herald, February 19, 1966
Power plant in Bow, The Concord Daily Monitor, February 23, 1966
Vietnam, Boston Herald, April 25, 1966
Vietnam, Boston Herald, April 27, 1966
Birth control bill, Boston Herald, April 26, 1966
Civil rights bill – housing, Boston Herald, April 29, 1966
Martin Luther King assassination, Boston Globe, April 5, 1968
McCarthy, Boston Globe, August 26, 1968
Ted Kennedy, Boston Globe, August 27, 1968
Box N3
Folder 5 – Front page news, 1968
Hubert Humphrey, Boston Globe, August 28, 1968
Hubert Humphrey, Boston Globe, August 29, 1968
Humphrey and Muskie, Boston Globe, August 30, 1968
“LBJ fears invasion of Romania”, Boston Globe, August 31, 1968
Box N4
Folder 6 – Front page news, 1969-1970
“Man Walks on Moon,” Boston Globe, July 20, 1969
“Apollo Ready To Head Homeward to World-Wide Sigh of Relief,” Boston Globe, July 22, 1969
“Moon Explorers Return,” Boston Globe, July 24, 1969
Vietnam Moratorium Day, Boston Globe, October 15, 1969
Moratorium Day – call for peace in Vietnam, Boston Globe, October 16, 1969
American Airlines “Z-LODA” system, The Florida Times-Union and Jacksonville Journal, June 14, 1970
BHS Newspaper Collection (Oversize)
Harper’s Weekly, November 13, 1886
American Christian Review, August 24, 1880
The Well-Spring, Boston
April 26, 1861
July 5, 1861 (lists donation from Boxford First Congregational Church)
Journal Missions and Youth’s Dayspring, Boston, October, 1859
Massachusetts Ploughman, Boston, July 14, 1849 (belonged to William Cleaveland)
Essex County Mercury, Danvers Beverly and Marblehead Courier, July 29, 1857
Stephen Reynolds death notice
Essex County Mercury Supplement, Salem, MA, November 5, 1884
Essex County Mercury and Weekly Salem Gazette, December 24, 1884
Andrew Frame’s “Warren Lot” purchased by S. McLaughlin, built house there
Match Factory
J. B. Thomas
Daniel Andrew’s Widow
Mrs. William Goodwin
Natural History Society
Essex County Mercury and Weekly Salem Gazette, April 19, 1876
Town meeting RE: filling in valley in front of Holyoke-French house and new railroad
through West Boxford
Rev. James McLean
West Parish Parsonage construction (167 Washington Street)
Mining (William K. Cole, Robert B. Anderson, Nathan K. Fowler, Daniel F. Harriman)
Essex County Mercury and Weekly Salem Gazette, November 15, 1876
Fires at outbuildings on Benjamin S. Barnes property (20 Kelsey Road)
Essex County Mercury and Weekly Salem Gazette, November 27, 1878
Elzira Towne death notice (November 24, aged 66 years, 11 months)
Essex County Mercury and Weekly Salem Gazette, July 2, 1879
June 22 birth of son to Mr. and Mrs. Asa P. Howe
Fourth of July celebrations
Boston and Maine Railroad
Essex County Mercury and Weekly Salem Gazette, November 26, 1879
Presentations at Boxford church (Baldwin Place Little Wanderers’ Home)
Proposed new mill at Kimball & Sawyer Box Mill site
Essex County Mercury and Weekly Salem Gazette, September 1, 1880
Dedication of Boxford Public Library (Bacon Library) in East Boxford
Essex County Mercury and Weekly Salem Gazette, August 18, 1886
August 18, West Boxford, death of Sada Warren, 13 mos., daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Warren Pitts
Young People’s Society of Christian Endeavor excursion
West Parish church meeting
Professor James H. Howe performed at concert in Topsfield
Essex County Mercury and Weekly Salem Gazette, October 12, 1887
Diphtheria in West Boxford
Death of Clinton Barker of North Andover
G. Winfield Todd leaves Boxford to return to Texas
Essex County Mercury and Weekly Salem Gazette, August 11, 1886
Elisha Peabody building moved to Tapleyville, Danvers
Essex County Mercury and Weekly Salem Gazette, August 29, 1888
Miscellany – Rev. Hubbard and problems at First Church
Essex County Mercury and Weekly Salem Gazette, August 8, 1888
August 5, death of Elizabeth Whittier (Pearl)
Thomas Sawyer lawn party
Construction of Hotel Placidia (John Hale Esq. and son Clarence Hale)
Bath house on Fish Brook
Essex County Mercury and Weekly Salem Gazette, November 7, 1888
No Boxford news
Essex County Mercury and Weekly Salem Gazette, December 26, 1888
Rev. William P. Alcott’s Herbarium – donated to the Syrian Protestant College at Beirut
and the Girls’ School at Scutari, and Tokyo, Japan
Concert for Senior Citizens held by Mattie Twitchell and Bessie Cleaveland
Professor James H. Howe dean of music at De Pauw University
West Boxford Grange
West Boxford home improvements: James H. Webster (Brown-Pearl-Webster house), John K. Pearl (old house at 145 Lakeshore Road), George B. Austin (715 Main Street), Jonathan J. Porter (performed labor at 80 years old), Alonzo J. Henley (189 Washington Street), Edward E. Pearl (553 Main Street)
George A Harriman’s new carriage painting business
William E. Perley butchering business
Essex County Mercury and Weekly Salem Gazette, April 10, 1889
Muddy roads
Road commissioner appointments
Pine trees, logging, saw mills, Match Factory
Prohibition amendment
West Boxford Grange
West Parish (Second Church) meeting
George L. Lowrey carriage accident
Albert J. Morris adds bay window to house (180 Washington Street)
Francis P. Jacques move to Andover
Essex County Mercury and Weekly Salem Gazette, June 5, 1889
Memorial Day exercises
Poets of Essex County published by Sidney Perley
Essex County Mercury and Weekly Salem Gazette, May 4, 1892
Arbor Day tree planting at Town Hall
West Boxford farmers
Andy Howe moved to Wakefield
Essex County Mercury and Weekly Salem Gazette, March 27, 1889
Mrs. Ancil Dorman bequest to church
Dog attacking hens
Sammy Gurley
Woods fire
John Gould guilty of illegal sale of cider
Barker Free School building almost completed
Mr. Sargent (teacher) on visit to Worcester
Rev. and Mrs. Hubbard
Clara Ladd died
West Boxford Grange
Federal Gazette and Daily Advertiser, Boston, February 17, 1798
Supplement to “The Young Ladies’ Journal” November, 1886
Tri-Town Transcript, July 28, 1976
Boxford England Visit