ISBN:
9781000558814
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (547 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.850941
Keywords:
Families-Great Britain-History-18th century
;
Families-United States-History
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
This four-volume collection of primarily newly transcribed manuscript material brings together sources from both sides of the Atlantic and from a wide variety of regional archives. It is the first collection of its kind, allowing comparisons between the development of the family in England and America during a time of significant change.
Abstract:
Cover Page -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents Page -- Dedication Page -- Acknowledgements Page -- General Introduction Page -- Bibliography Page -- Introduction Page -- Editorial Principles Page -- Multiple Families -- Wills, Estate Papers, Licenses -- Wills of Berkeley Seymour and Jane Seymour -- Berkeley Seymour, Will (Written 1744, Proved 1744) -- Jane Seymour, Will (Written 1762, Proved 1770) -- John Romans, Deed (1766) -- Ward Hallowell, Licence [sic] to Change his Name to Ward Nicholas Boylston (1770) -- Jane Parminter, Will (Written 1807, Proved 1812) -- Letters -- John Drayton, Letter to James Glen (1761) -- A. W. Rumney (ed.), From the Old South-Sea House (1914) -- Chesnut and Cox Families, Correspondence (1797, 1800, 1810) -- Lovejoy Family Correspondence (1817-19) -- Literature -- Anna Letitia Barbauld, Hymns in Prose for Children (1781) -- Ann Murry, Mentoria: Or, the Young Ladies Instructor (1780) -- Jane Davis, Letters from a Mother to her Son, on his Going to Sea: And a Letter to Capt. S. ([1799]) -- Religious Diversity of Families -- Parish and Probate -- Church of England, Haselbury-Plucknett, Somerset, Parish Registers -- Recusant Returns, Diocese of York (1767, 1780) -- Petitions and Letters -- William Tennent III, On the Dissenting Petition, House of Assembly, Charleston, South Carolina (1777) -- Zina Baker Huntington Correspondence (1808-13) -- Literature -- Robert Nelson, An Earnest Exhortation to House-Keepers, to Set Up the Worship of God in their Families (1739) -- Anon., A Persuasive to Family Religion (1736) -- Abbé d'Ancourt, 'Of Politeness in Religion, and against Superstition', 'Of Devotion', 'Of Behaviour at Church', The Lady's Preceptor (1743) -- David Muir, An Humble Attempt toward the Revival of Family-Religion among Christians (1749).
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