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Unwelcome Americans : living on the margin in early New England / Ruth Wallis Herndon.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Herndon, Ruth Wallis.
- Series:
- Early American studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Marginality, Social--New England--History--18th century.
- Marginality, Social.
- Poor laws.
- History.
- Poor.
- Social conditions.
- New England--Social conditions--18th century.
- New England.
- Poor--New England--Biography.
- Poor laws--New England--History--18th century.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 243 pages) : illustrations.
- Other Title:
- Penn Press e-books.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2001]
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Summary:
- "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 Quarterly"
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references ([229]-235) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Herndon, Ruth Wallis. Unwelcome Americans.
- ISBN:
- 9780812202236
- 0812202236
- OCLC:
- 646329034
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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