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The Layered Society: Material Life In Portsmouth, Nh, 1680 To 1740 (New Hampshire), Karen Elizabeth Andresen
The Layered Society: Material Life In Portsmouth, Nh, 1680 To 1740 (New Hampshire), Karen Elizabeth Andresen
Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation evaluates the material life and economic culture of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, from 1680 to 1740 through an analysis of the probate inventories of the estates of 234 males. It also details the methodology used to determine the twin biases of probate records--that people whose estates were probated were generally older and wealthier than people in the overall population.
The inequality of wealth was fairly static. Using model life tables, a commodity price series derived from Portsmouth goods, and weights to account for differences between the ages and economic status' of the probated and total populations, the Gini Index …
The German Soldiers In The American Revolution (Volumes I And Ii, Chapters 1-12), Elliott Wheelock Hoffman
The German Soldiers In The American Revolution (Volumes I And Ii, Chapters 1-12), Elliott Wheelock Hoffman
Doctoral Dissertations
The thirty thousand German soldiers who served with the British Army in the American Revolution enabled the British to attempt to successfully wage war without affecting the stability of British society. The six German states that sent troops to America did so as a result of hundreds of years of normal troop trade. Few Britons questioned the legality of the hiring of foreign troops. Britain could not fight the war without such troops and even the critics of the war acknowledged this truth. The Germans often made up half the forces facing Americans on the battlefield.
This dissertation analyses the …
Criminal Cases At The Essex County, Massachusetts, Court Of General Sessions, 1700 - 1785, Paul Donald Marsella
Criminal Cases At The Essex County, Massachusetts, Court Of General Sessions, 1700 - 1785, Paul Donald Marsella
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This study provides detailed description of criminal cases at the Essex County, Massachusetts Court of General Sessions of the Peace from 1700 to 1785 and analyzes the relationship between crime and social tension in Massachusetts during this period. The Court of General Sessions was the county administrative and criminal court in eighteenth century Massachusetts and its records are extensive. Essex County, moreover, was a socially and economically diverse community, and it is an appropriate representative sample of eighteenth century Massachusetts society.
Sessions Court records yield a tremendous amount of detailed information about criminal activity in eighteenth century Essex County. The …
Order And Disorder In Early Connecticut: New Haven, 1639-1701, Robert West Roetger
Order And Disorder In Early Connecticut: New Haven, 1639-1701, Robert West Roetger
Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation assesses order and disorder in New Haven, Connecticut from its founding in 1639 to the introduction of Justices of the Peace in 1701. It juxtaposes concepts of the well-ordered society as expressed in puritan rhetoric with the reality of behavior as reflected in legal documents to illustrate the pre-eminent role assumed by law in ordering society. What emerges is a picture of society not rigidly caught up in the policies of perfection, but one characterized by responsive lawmaking, equally flexible enforcement, and reliance upon formal legal institutions to resolve private controversies.
The study begins with a portrait of …