Early American Probate Inventories (The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife: Annual Proceedings 1987)
Benes, Peter (editor)
Published by The Trustees of Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, 1989
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Off-white & illus. wraps, 184 pp., BW illus. A collection of 12 papers that were presented at this conference. Papers are: Introduction: Unlocking the Semantic and Quantitative Doors / Peter Benes and Jane Montague Benes ; Matching Inventory Terms and Period Furnishings / Robert F. Trent ; The Meaning of Absence: Household Inventories in Surry County, Virginia, 1690-1715 / Anna L. Hawley ; Using Tax Lists to Detect Biases in Probate Inventories / Kevin M. Sweeney ; Literacy and Reading in Eighteenth-Century Westborough, Massachusetts / Ross W. Beales, Jr. ; Dress in Seventeenth-Century Cambridge, Massachusetts: An Inventory-Based Reconstruction / Patricia Trautman ; Women's Property and Family Continuity in Eighteenth-Century Connecticut / Barbara McLean Ward ; Rhode Island Handloom Weavers: A Probate Perspective / Gail Fowler Mohanty ; First-Period Architecture in Maine and New Hampshire: The Evidence of Probate Inventories / Richard M. Candee ; Delware's Orphans Court Valuations and the Reconstitution of Historic Landscapes, 1785-1830 ; Sleeping Arrangements in Early Massachusetts: The Newbury Household of Henry Lunt, Hatter / Peter Benes ; The Distribution of Consumer Goods in Colonial New England: A Subregional Approach / Gloria L. Main. Uncommon. VG- (Slight aging or soiling of covers; interior is nice.). Seller Inventory # 151977
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Title: Early American Probate Inventories (The ...
Publisher: The Trustees of Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
Publication Date: 1989
Binding: Softcover
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