Property and Kinship: Inheritance in Early Connecticut, 1750-1820 (Princeton Legacy Library) - Hardcover

Ditz, Toby L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0691047359 ISBN 13: 9780691047355

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1986

Synopsis

Toby Ditz explores the relationship among inheritance, kinship, and the commercialization of agriculture. Comparing four upland communities with a Connecticut River Valley town, she finds that inheritance practices in the late colonial era heavily favored some male heirs and created shared rights in property. These customs continued into the early nineteenth century in the upland, but in the commercialized river-valley town practices became more egalitarian and individualized.

Originally published in 1986.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0691047359
• ISBN 13: 9780691047355
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 245