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The Chesapeake in the seventeenth century : essays on Anglo-American society / edited by Thad W. Tate and David L. Ammerman.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Norton, 1979.Description: viii, 310 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0393009564
  • 9780393009569
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • F187.C5 C46 1979
Contents:
The seventeenth-century Chesapeake and its modern historians / Thad W. Tate -- Servant emigration to the Chesapeake in the seventeenth century / James Horn -- Environment, disease, and mortality in early Virginia / Carville V. Earle -- "Till death us do part" : marriage and family in seventeenth-century Maryland / Lorena S. Walsh -- "Now-wives and sons-in-law" : parental death in a seventeenth-century Virginia county / Darrett B. and Anita H. Rutman -- "In dispers'd country plantations" : settlement patterns in seventeenth-century Surry County, Virginia / Kevin P. Kelly -- Immigration and opportunity : the freedman in early colonial Maryland / Lois Green Carr and Russell R. Menard -- Political stability and the emergence of a native elite in Maryland / David W. Jordan -- English-born and Creole elites in turn-of-the-century Virginia / Carole Shammas.
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Books (30-Day Checkout) Books (30-Day Checkout) Nash Library General Stacks F187.C5C46 1979 1 Available 33710001253421

"Outgrowth of a conference ... held on November 1 and 2, 1974, at College Park and St. Mary's, Maryland."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The seventeenth-century Chesapeake and its modern historians / Thad W. Tate -- Servant emigration to the Chesapeake in the seventeenth century / James Horn -- Environment, disease, and mortality in early Virginia / Carville V. Earle -- "Till death us do part" : marriage and family in seventeenth-century Maryland / Lorena S. Walsh -- "Now-wives and sons-in-law" : parental death in a seventeenth-century Virginia county / Darrett B. and Anita H. Rutman -- "In dispers'd country plantations" : settlement patterns in seventeenth-century Surry County, Virginia / Kevin P. Kelly -- Immigration and opportunity : the freedman in early colonial Maryland / Lois Green Carr and Russell R. Menard -- Political stability and the emergence of a native elite in Maryland / David W. Jordan -- English-born and Creole elites in turn-of-the-century Virginia / Carole Shammas.