In English ways : the movement of societies and the transferal of English local law and custom to Massachusetts Bay in the seventeenth century /
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Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Va., by the University of North Carolina Press,
c1981
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Chapter 1. Introduction: People, Land, and custom
- Diversity in Old and New England
- Religious Diversity and Regional Influences
- Other English Regional Factors
- Chapter 2. "Those Drowsy Corners of the North"
- Agricultural Structure
- The Land System
- Leadership Patterns
- Government
- Chapter 3. A Tale of Two Towns
- Agricultural Structure
- The Land System
- Leadership Patterns
- Government
- Chapter 4. "A Mixt Multitude"
- Agricultural Structure
- The Land System
- Chapter 5. "Men of Good Ranke and Quality"
- The Land System
- Leadership Patterns and Local Government
- Part II. Chapter 6. The Migration of Societies
- Rowley
- Hingham
- Newbury
- Ipswich and Watertown
- Chapter 7. A Contrapuntal life
- Chapter 8. Epilogue: An Eighteenth-Century Perspective
- Appendixes I. English Origins of the Original Landholders of Rowley, Massachusetts
- 2. English Origins of Pre-1640 Hingham, Massachusetts, Settlers
- 3· English Origins of the Ninety-One Original Proprietors of Newbury, Massachusetts
- 4. English Origins of Ipswich, Massachusetts, Commoners
- 5. English Origins of the Grantees of the First Division of Land, Watertown, Massachusetts