Four Generations: Population, Land, and Family in Colonial Andover, Massachusetts [1 ed.] 9780801491344, 0801491347

Table of contents :
Frontmatter
Preface (page vii)
Abbreviations (page xvii)
1 Introduction: Problems, Sources, and Methods (page 1)
PART I The First and Second Generations (page 19)
2 Life and Death in a Wilderness Settlement (page 21)
3 Land for Families: The Formative Decades (page 41)
4 Patriarchalism and the Family (page 72)
PART II The Second and Third Generations (page 101)
5 The Expanding Population in a Farming Community (page 103)
6 Control and Autonomy: Families and the Transmission of Land (page 125)
PART III The Third and Fourth Generations (page 173)
7 Change and Decline: Population and Families in a Provincial Town (page 175)
8 Independence and Dependence in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Families (page 222)
PART IV Conclusion (page 259)
9 Historical Perspectives on the Family (page 261)
Appendix: General Demographic Data (page 293)
Bibliography (page 295)
Index (page 317)

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