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.