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Cultivating a past : essays on the history of Hadley, Massachusetts /

In 1659, a group of Puritan dissenters made their way north from Hartford and Wethersfield, Connecticut, to a crook in the Connecticut River that cut through some of the most fertile land in New England. Three hundred and fifty years later, a group of distinguished scholars mark the founding of that...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Miller, Marla R. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2009]
Colección:JSTOR EBA.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction: Pastkeeping in Another Small Place / Marla R. Miller
  • 1. Quanquan's Mortgage of 1663 / Alice Nash
  • 2. Before Hadley: Archaeology and Native History, 10,000 Be to 1700 AD / Siobhan M. Hart, Elizabeth S. Chilton and Christopher Donta
  • 3. The Fortification of Hadley in the Seventeenth Century / J. Edward Hood and Rita Reinke
  • 4. Web ofSecrecy: Goffe, Whalley, and the Legend of Hadley / Douglas C. Wilson
  • 5. The "Goffe Bible": Succor for the Regicides? / Martin Antonetti
  • 6. "There shall be a wonder in Hadley!": Mary Webster's "Hideous Witchcraft" / Bridget M. Marshall and Brian W. Ogilvie
  • 7. Hannah Barnard's Cupboard: Female Property and Identity in Eighteenth-Century New England / Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
  • 8. The Sober People of Hadley: Sumptuary Legislation and Clothing in Hadley Men's Probate Inventories, 1663-1731 / Lynne Z. Bassett
  • 9. "We owe something more than prayers": Elizabeth Porter Phelps's Gift of Church Silver and Her Quest for Christian Fellowship / Karen Parsons
  • 10. Commerce and Community: A Case Study of the Rural Broommaking Business in Antebellum Massachusetts / Gregory H. Nobles
  • 11. In Defense of Fighting Joe / Stephen W. Sears
  • 12. Poles and Puritans / Peter Hardin
  • 13. America's Blind Naturalist: Clarence Hawkes and the World He Lived In / James A. Freeman
  • 14. "Like one of the trees": Roger Sessions and Hadley / Andrea Olmstead
  • 15. Preserving Mt. Holyoke / Ethan Carr.