In English ways : the movement of societies and the transferal of English local law and custom to Massachusetts Bay in the seventeenth century / David Grayson Allen
1981, 1st edition. Chapel Hill : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by The University of North Carolina Press. Former library copy. Very good cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Item #429830
ISBN: 0807814482
Physical description: xxi, 312 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. Series: Institute of Early American History And Culture Ser. Contents: Part I. Chapter 1. Introduction: People, Land, and custom -- Diversity in Old and New England -- Religious Diversity and Regional Influences -- Other English Regional Factors -- Chapter 2. "Those Drowsy Corners of the North" -- Agricultural Structure -- The Land System -- Leadership Patterns -- Government -- Chapter 3. A Tale of Two Towns -- Agricultural Structure -- The Land System -- Leadership Patterns -- Government -- Chapter 4. "A Mixt Multitude" -- Agricultural Structure -- The Land System -- Chapter 5. "Men of Good Ranke and Quality" -- The Land System -- Leadership Patterns and Local Government -- Part II. Chapter 6. The Migration of Societies -- Rowley -- Hingham -- Newbury -- Ipswich and Watertown -- Chapter 7. A Contrapuntal life -- Chapter 8. Epilogue: An Eighteenth-Century Perspective -- Appendixes I. English Origins of the Original Landholders of Rowley, Massachusetts -- 2. English Origins of Pre-1640 Hingham, Massachusetts, Settlers -- 3· English Origins of the Ninety-One Original Proprietors of Newbury, Massachusetts -- 4. English Origins of Ipswich, Massachusetts, Commoners -- 5. English Origins of the Grantees of the First Division of Land, Watertown, Massachusetts. Subjects: 1600-1775. Cities and towns Massachusetts History 17th century. Cities and towns England History 17th century. Social history 17th century. Massachusetts History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
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