From Ancestry.com Wiki This entry was originally written by
Alice Eichholz, Ph.D., CG, for Red Book: American State, County,
and Town Sources. Both immigration and naturalization records
abound for Massachusetts since Boston was a major port of entry
for hundreds of millions of people seeking refuge, food, land,
and religious and political freedom from points across the
Atlantic. Smaller ports existed in other towns both north and
south of Boston’s wharfs. The seventeenth- and nineteenth-
century records are well organized, but few of the eighteenth-
century records are as easily accessed. Early Immigration. While
literally hundreds of published lists exist, the most definitive
resource to use for those known lists for the 1620–1700 period
is Filby and Meyer’s Passenger and Immigration Lists Index,
which is also available in online subscription databases for
volumes published to 2003 (see page 17). However, the researcher
must refer to the primary source after using the index, since
the index is derived from ot