Robert Cole's world : agriculture and society in early Maryland / Lois Green Carr, Russell R. Menard, Lorena S. Walsh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carr, Lois Green, author.

Menard, Russell R., author.

Walsh, Lorena Seebach, 1944- author.

Series:

Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cole family.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 362 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill ; London : Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture, [1991]

Summary:

In 1652 Robert Cole, an English Catholic, moved with his family and servants to St.Mary's County, Maryland.Using this family's story as a case study, the authors of Robert Cole's World provide an intimate portrait of the social and economic life of a middling planter in the seveneenth-century Chesapeake, including work routines and agricultural.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

1 A Context for the Cole Plantation

2 Building a Farm

3 The Agricultural Year

4 Income, Growth, and Living Standards

5 Settlement Patterns, Community Development, and Family Life

6 Toward the "Golden Age

Appendixes

Appendix 1: Transcripts of Robert Cole's Will and the Cole Plantation Account

Appendix 2: People Living at the Cole Plantation, 1662-1673

Appendix 3: Livestock Survival and Meat Consumption

Appendix 4: Biographies of the Cole Family, Their Servants, and Persons Mentioned in Robert Cole's Account and Will

Notes

Index

Untitled.

Notes:

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Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9798890865472

9781469645452

1469645459

OCLC:

1140792308