Author: Lydia Nelson Hastings Buckminster
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Languages : en
Pages : 198
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The Hastings Memorial
Author: Lydia Nelson Hastings Buckminster
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 198
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 198
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The New England Historical and Genealogical Register
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Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Beginning in 1924, Proceedings are incorporated into the Apr. number.
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Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Beginning in 1924, Proceedings are incorporated into the Apr. number.
The New England Historical & Genealogical Register and Antiquarian Journal
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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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A Handbook of American Genealogy: Being a Catalogue of Family Histories and Publications Containing Genealogical Information, Chronologically Arranged. F.P.
Author: William Henry WHITMORE
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Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Languages : en
Pages : 296
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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.
American and English genealogies in the Library of Congress. Preliminary catalogue. Compiled under the direction of the chief of the catalogue division
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 824
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 824
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American and English Genealogies in the Library of Congress
Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 824
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 824
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American and English genealogies in the Library of Congress
Author: M.A. Gilkey
Publisher: Dalcassian Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1342
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Publisher: Dalcassian Publishing Company
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1342
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The American Genealogist
Author: William Henry Whitmore
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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Genealogies in the Library of Congress
Author: Marion J. Kaminkow
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 9780806316642
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 926
Book Description
Vol 1 905p Vol 2 961p.
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 9780806316642
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 926
Book Description
Vol 1 905p Vol 2 961p.