The material covered in this thirty-four volume series includes essentially everything of interest to researchers studying the Mayflower passengers, the first few generations of their progeny, and others who settled in the many towns they established in southeastern Massachusetts. The volumes in this series contain extensive transcriptions of original records, as well as compiled genealogies, and related historical articles. Volume XVI contains: editorial notes on family names: Atwood, Bradford, Chipman, Cooke, Fitch, Hathaway, Hopkins, Latham, Taber, Washburn and Wilcox, the diary of Jabez Fitch Jr., church records for Plymouth, Massachusetts, numerous deeds, grantors and grantees, Barnstable County unrecorded deeds and probate records, numerous wills and inventories, vital records of: Bridgewater, Chatham, Eastham, Middleborough, Orleans, and Plymouth, Massachusetts, vital records of Plymouth Colony, and much more. Indices to subjects, persons and places enhance the text.