Author: Middlesex County (Mass.). Registry of Deeds
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Category : Deeds
Languages : en
Pages : 102
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Abstracts of Early Woburn Deeds Recorded at Middlesex County Registry, 1649-1700
Author: Middlesex County (Mass.). Registry of Deeds
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Category : Deeds
Languages : en
Pages : 102
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Category : Deeds
Languages : en
Pages : 102
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The New England Historical and Genealogical Register
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Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 646
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Beginning in 1924, Proceedings are incorporated into the Apr. no.
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Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 646
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Beginning in 1924, Proceedings are incorporated into the Apr. no.
Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society
Author: Massachusetts Historical Society
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Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 670
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Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 670
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A Guide to Massachusetts Local History
Author: Charles Allcott Flagg
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Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Author List of the New Hampshire State Library
Author: New Hampshire State Library
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 832
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 832
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The New England Bibliopolist, Or Notices of Books on American History, Biography, Genealogy, Etc
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Category : Local history
Languages : en
Pages : 464
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Category : Local history
Languages : en
Pages : 464
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Plugging Into Your Past
Author: Rick Crume
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Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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Shows how to find family genealogy online and includes a description of many different genealogical Web sites and strategies for searching them.
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Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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Shows how to find family genealogy online and includes a description of many different genealogical Web sites and strategies for searching them.
Under Household Government
Author: M. Michelle Jarrett Morris
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674071417
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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Seventeenth-century New Englanders were not as busy policing their neighbors’ behavior as Nathaniel Hawthorne or many historians of early America would have us believe. Keeping their own households in line occupied too much of their time. Under Household Government reveals the extent to which family members took on the role of watchdog in matters of sexual indiscretion. In a society where one’s sister’s husband’s brother’s wife was referred to as “sister,” kinship networks could be immense. When out-of-wedlock pregnancies, paternity suits, and infidelity resulted in legal cases, courtrooms became battlegrounds for warring clans. Families flooded the courts with testimony, sometimes resorting to slander and jury-tampering to defend their kin. Even slaves merited defense as household members—and as valuable property. Servants, on the other hand, could expect to be cast out and left to fend for themselves. As she elaborates the ways family policing undermined the administration of justice, M. Michelle Jarrett Morris shows how ordinary colonists understood sexual, marital, and familial relationships. Long-buried tales are resurrected here, such as that of Thomas Wilkinson’s (unsuccessful) attempt to exchange cheese for sex with Mary Toothaker, and the discovery of a headless baby along the shore of Boston’s Mill Pond. The Puritans that we meet in Morris’s account are not the cardboard caricatures of myth, but are rendered with both skill and sensitivity. Their stories of love, sex, and betrayal allow us to understand anew the depth and complexity of family life in early New England.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674071417
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Seventeenth-century New Englanders were not as busy policing their neighbors’ behavior as Nathaniel Hawthorne or many historians of early America would have us believe. Keeping their own households in line occupied too much of their time. Under Household Government reveals the extent to which family members took on the role of watchdog in matters of sexual indiscretion. In a society where one’s sister’s husband’s brother’s wife was referred to as “sister,” kinship networks could be immense. When out-of-wedlock pregnancies, paternity suits, and infidelity resulted in legal cases, courtrooms became battlegrounds for warring clans. Families flooded the courts with testimony, sometimes resorting to slander and jury-tampering to defend their kin. Even slaves merited defense as household members—and as valuable property. Servants, on the other hand, could expect to be cast out and left to fend for themselves. As she elaborates the ways family policing undermined the administration of justice, M. Michelle Jarrett Morris shows how ordinary colonists understood sexual, marital, and familial relationships. Long-buried tales are resurrected here, such as that of Thomas Wilkinson’s (unsuccessful) attempt to exchange cheese for sex with Mary Toothaker, and the discovery of a headless baby along the shore of Boston’s Mill Pond. The Puritans that we meet in Morris’s account are not the cardboard caricatures of myth, but are rendered with both skill and sensitivity. Their stories of love, sex, and betrayal allow us to understand anew the depth and complexity of family life in early New England.
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Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 984
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A record of literary properties sold at auction in the United States.
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Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 984
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A record of literary properties sold at auction in the United States.
The Tatler; or, Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq
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Languages : en
Pages : 670
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Pages : 670
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