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

Imprint New York : Norton, 1979.

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 Axe Kansas Collection J Schick  975.518 C424 1979    ---  Lib Use Only
Description viii, 310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Note "Outgrowth of a conference ... held on November 1 and 2, 1974, at College Park and St. Mary's, Maryland."
Originally published: Chapel Hill : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press, ©1979.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Summary Seventeenth-century Chesapeake involved the area of the colonies of Virginia and Maryland.
Subject Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) -- History.
Maryland -- History -- Colonial period, approximately 1600-1775.
Virginia -- History -- Colonial period, approximately 1600-1775.
Social history -- 17th century.
Social history. (OCoLC)fst01122498
Maryland. (OCoLC)fst01204739
United States -- Chesapeake Bay Region. (OCoLC)fst01310475
Virginia. (OCoLC)fst01204597
Chronological Term 1600-1775
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author Tate, Thad W.
Ammerman, David, 1938-
Added Title Essays on Anglo-American society
ISBN 0393009564
9780393009569
0807813605
9780807813607

 
    
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