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Unwelcome Americans : living on the margin in early New England /

"Herndon has painstakingly reconstructed the lives of these most obscure early New Englanders ... The resulting study at once opens an important window onto the development of poor-relief policy in America and offers a fascinating account of lives and voices often lost to us."--New England...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Herndon, Ruth Wallis
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2001.
Colección:Early American studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Birth, infancy, and childhood. Phebe Perkins
  • Anthony Hathaway
  • Kate Jones
  • Susannah Guinea
  • Jerusha Townsend
  • Susannah, James, John, and Isabel Brown. Family life. Clarke, William, and Sanford Pike
  • Patience and Abner Butler
  • Judah Hazard Wanton
  • Mary Cummock Fowler and Mary Fowler Champlin
  • Sarah Gardner and her daughters
  • Wait Godfrey alias Whitney alias Grafft
  • Christopher Stocker and Abigail Harris
  • Nathaniel Whitaker
  • Robert Fuller's family
  • Thomas Field. Work life. Phillis Merritt Wanton
  • Mary Carder
  • Olive Pero
  • Elizabeth and Molly Hodges
  • Cato Freeman
  • Mark Noble
  • Peter Norton
  • John Treby
  • Nathaniel Bowdish. Reversal of fortune. Patience Havens and her daughters
  • Elizabeth Springer
  • Primus Thompson
  • Benjamin Jones
  • Ann West and Peter West
  • Esther Heradon
  • Margaret Fairchild Bowler
  • Benjamin Champney
  • Jacob Burke. Old age and death. Daniel Collins
  • Obadiah Blanding
  • Latham Clarke
  • Abigail Hull Carr
  • Elizabeth Stonehouse
  • Bristol Rhodes. Constructing a transient s life.