Nantucket Lands and Landowners


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Nantucket lands and landowners


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Speculative Landscapes


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Introduction -- Land, looking, and futurity in the Hudson Valley -- Digging for gold : allegories of speculation on the Illinois frontier -- Picturing land and labor in the Old Northwest and New England -- Perilous prospects : speculation and landscape painting in Florida -- Painting and property on Prout's Neck -- Conclusion.
















Genealogical Encyclopedia of the Colonial Americas


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Covers the period of colonial history from the beginning of European colonization in the Western Hemisphere up to the time of the American Revolution.




New England Court Records


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Section describes examples of searches using computer databases, federal court records, indexes, justice of the peace records, and law library research, including how to search for people of color. The appendices list contact information for state and federal courts and other sources. Rapaport is a former trial lawyer and writes the column "Tales from the Courthouse" for New England Ancestors magazine. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).