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Author Herndon, Ruth Wallis.

Title Unwelcome Americans : living on the margin in early New England / Ruth Wallis Herndon.

Publication Info. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2001]
©2001

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  305.56 H588U    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  305.56 H588U c.2  Check Shelf
Description xi, 243 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series Early American studies
Early American studies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references ([229]-235) and index.
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.
Subject Marginality, Social -- New England -- History -- 18th century.
Poor laws -- New England -- History -- 18th century.
Poor -- New England -- Biography.
New England -- Social conditions -- 18th century.
Local Subject Poor people -- New England -- Biography.
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