DOUGLAS Genealogy: descendants of John Douglas of Middleborough, MA, the first of this branch in America 1890By J. Lufkin Douglas This book provides the Douglas family genealogy, with descendants of John Douglas of Middleborough, Massachusetts, the first of this branch in America. We see a copy of the land deed dated May 7th, 1739, granted to John Douglas, for was about thirty seven acres. (226p., Index, 1890)