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Author Greven, Philip J.

Title Four generations: population, land, and family in colonial Andover, Massachusetts / [by] Philip J. Greven, Jr.

Publication Info. Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1970.

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 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  974.45 G86    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Basement Materials  306.8    Check Shelf
Description xvi, 329 pages : illustrations, folded map. ; 23 cm
Bibliography Bibliography: pages [295]-315.
Contents Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction : Problems, sources, and methods -- pt. 1. The first and second generations -- 2. Life and death in a wilderness settlement -- 3. Land for families : the formative decades -- 4. Patriarchalism and the family -- pt. 2. The second and third generations -- 5. The expanding population in a farming community -- 6. Control and autonomy : families and the transmission of land -- pt. 3. The third and fourth generations -- 7. Change and decline : population and families in a provincial town -- 8. Independence and dependence in mid-eighteenth-century families -- pt. 4. Conclusion -- 9. Historical perspectives on the family -- Appendix : General demographic data -- Bibliography -- Index.
Subject Andover (Mass.) -- Social life and customs.
Demography -- Massachusetts.
Family Characteristics -- Massachusetts.
Father-Child Relations -- Massachusetts.
ISBN 0801405394
9780801405396
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