List of libraries in 18th-century Massachusetts

This is a list of libraries in 18th-century Massachusetts, North America.

It includes subscription, rental, medical, church, and academic libraries.

In general, it excludes book collections of private individuals.

Less money than a man spends on an election, or training day for punch or grog, would entitle him a reader or proprietor.

In rainy weather, in winter, or holidays, in the intervals of rest, or during sickness, books will afford treasures and consolations which blockheads know not of.

Constitution, Newton Library Society, 1799
Advertisement for Osborne's circulating library, Newburyport, 1792
Advertisement for Carlton's circulating library, Salem, 1793
Catalogue, Wareham Social Library, 1798
Rules, Worcester Circulating Library Co., 1793