The brittle thread of life : backcountry people make a place for themselves in early America / Mark Williams

Object Details

Contents

Prologue : nothing for history to say? -- A place called Sammon Brooke -- On penalty of loosing our freeholds -- Zeal for the support of the darling liberty -- In our corporate capacity -- Settled our land according to your command -- We ought to obey God rather than man -- We do not want any goviner but the goviner of the univarse -- As they shall judge necessary -- Epilogue : a hazardous state and condition

Data Source

Smithsonian Libraries

Date

2009

C2009

Author

Williams, Mark 1948-

Type

Books

Physical description

xi, 265 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm

Place

Connecticut

Granby (Town)

Massachusetts

Ashfield (Town)

Asfield (Town)

Granby (Conn. : Town)

Ashfield (Mass. : Town)

Topic

Land settlement--History

Social classes--History

Rural poor--Social conditions

Country life

History

Record ID

siris_sil_928277

Usage

CC0