The Massachusetts Tax Valuation List of 1771
Author : Bettye Hobbs Pruitt
Publisher : G K Hall
Page : 924 pages
File Size : 17,87 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780816102457
Author : Bettye Hobbs Pruitt
Publisher : G K Hall
Page : 924 pages
File Size : 17,87 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780816102457
Author : Ashfield (Mass.). Tax Assessor's Office
Publisher :
Page : 2 pages
File Size : 50,90 MB
Release : 1771
Category : Ashfield (Mass.)
ISBN :
A list of names of Ashfield, Massachusetts residents with their total tax valuation amounts listed in pounds, shillings, and pence.
Author : Alan Taylor
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 50,80 MB
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807839973
This detailed exploration of the settlement of Maine beginning in the late eighteenth century illuminates the violent, widespread contests along the American frontier that served to define and complete the American Revolution. Taylor shows how Maine's militant settlers organized secret companies to defend their populist understanding of the Revolution.
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Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 17,72 MB
Release : 1978
Category :
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Author : Robert M. Taylor
Publisher : Mercer University Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 38,95 MB
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : 9780865541689
This book discusses the history of genealogy in the United States, and tries to not only bring genealogy into the main stream of historical sources, but also demonstrate the serviceability of genealogy to historians.
Author : Daniel Vickers
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 24,9 MB
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807839957
Daniel Vickers examines the shifting labor strategies used by colonists as New England evolved from a string of frontier settlements to a mature society on the brink of industrialization. Lacking a means to purchase slaves or hire help, seventeenth-century settlers adapted the labor systems of Europe to cope with the shortages of capital and workers they encountered on the edge of the wilderness. As their world developed, changes in labor arrangements paved the way for the economic transformations of the nineteenth century. By reconstructing the work experiences of thousands of farmers and fishermen in eastern Massachusetts, Vickers identifies who worked for whom and under what terms. Seventeenth-century farmers, for example, maintained patriarchal control over their sons largely to assure themselves of a labor force. The first generation of fish merchants relied on a system of clientage that bound poor fishermen to deliver their hauls in exchange for goods. Toward the end of the colonial period, land scarcity forced farmers and fishermen to search for ways to support themselves through wage employment and home manufacture. Out of these adjustments, says Vickers, emerged a labor market sufficient for industrialization.
Author : John L. Brooke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 35,94 MB
Release : 2005-07-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521673396
Presents a synthetic view of the social grounding of republicanism and liberalism in Worchester Country, Massachusetts, from its settlement to the eve of the Civil War.
Author : Mark Williams
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 39,90 MB
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300139225
The colonists who settled the backcountry in eighteenth-century New England were recruited from the social fringe, people who were desperate for land, autonomy, and respectability and who were willing to make a hard living in a rugged environment. Mark Williams’ microhistorical approach gives voice to the settlers, proprietors, and officials of the small colonial settlements that became Granby, Connecticut, and Ashfield, Massachusetts. These people—often disrespectful, disorderly, presumptuous, insistent, and defiant—were drawn to the ideology of the Revolution in the 1760s and 1770s that stressed equality, independence, and property rights. The backcountry settlers pushed the emerging nation’s political culture in a more radical direction than many of their leaders or the Founding Fathers preferred and helped put a democratic imprint on the new nation. This accessibly written book will resonate with all those interested in the social and political relationships of early America.
Author : John A. Schutz
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 16,97 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Legislators
ISBN : 9781555533045
This single volume contains meticulously researched biographies of the men who served as representatives in the General Court from the Charter of 1691 to the end of the American Revolution. Schutz also provides readers with enlightening essays on the history and workings of the Massachusetts General Court, and its influence in shaping the political and cultural milieux of colonial and revolutionary America.
Author : J. Rixey Ruffin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 18,25 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0195326512
William Bentley was pastor of the East Church in Salem Massachusetts from 1783 intil his death in 1819. There, he ministered to the sailors, widows, artisans, and captains of the waterfront. He offered his flock a faith grounded by the dual pillars of a benevolent deity and salvation through moral living.