The Massachusetts Tax Valuation List of 1771
Title | The Massachusetts Tax Valuation List of 1771 PDF eBook |
Author | Bettye Hobbs Pruitt |
Publisher | G K Hall |
Pages | 924 |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | Reference |
ISBN | 9780816102457 |
A Valuation Table [of Total Taxable Property in Ashfield, Massachusetts, 1771].
Title | A Valuation Table [of Total Taxable Property in Ashfield, Massachusetts, 1771]. PDF eBook |
Author | Ashfield (Mass.). Tax Assessor's Office |
Publisher | |
Pages | 2 |
Release | 1771 |
Genre | Ashfield (Mass.) |
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A list of names of Ashfield, Massachusetts residents with their total tax valuation amounts listed in pounds, shillings, and pence.
Liberty Men and Great Proprietors
Title | Liberty Men and Great Proprietors PDF eBook |
Author | Alan Taylor |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Pages | 398 |
Release | 2014-01-01 |
Genre | 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.
The Massachusetss tax valuation List of 1771
Title | The Massachusetss tax valuation List of 1771 PDF eBook |
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Release | 1978 |
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Generations and Change
Title | Generations and Change PDF eBook |
Author | Robert M. Taylor |
Publisher | Mercer University Press |
Pages | 394 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | 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.
Farmers and Fishermen
Title | Farmers and Fishermen PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Vickers |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Pages | 372 |
Release | 2014-01-01 |
Genre | 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.
The Heart of the Commonwealth
Title | The Heart of the Commonwealth PDF eBook |
Author | John L. Brooke |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 476 |
Release | 2005-07-07 |
Genre | 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.