| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 265 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Prologue : nothing for history to say? -- A place called Sammon Brooke -- On penalty of loosing our freeholds -- Zeal for the support of the darling liberty -- In our corporate capacity -- Settled our land according to your command -- We ought to obey God rather than man -- We do not want any goviner but the goviner of the univarse -- As they shall judge necessary -- Epilogue : a hazardous state and condition |
| Summary |
The colonists who settled the backcountry in eighteenth-century New England were recruited from the social fringe, people who were desperate for land, autonomy, and respectability and who were willing to make a hard living in a rugged environment. Mark Williams' microhistorical approach gives voice to the settlers, proprietors, and officials of the small colonial settlements that became Granby, Connecticut, and Ashfield, Massachusetts. These people-often disrespectful, disorderly, presumptuous, insistent, and defiant-were drawn to the ideology of the Revolution in the 1760s and 1770s that stressed equality, independence, and property rights. The backcountry settlers pushed the emerging nation's political culture in a more radical direction than many of their leaders or the Founding Fathers preferred and helped put a democratic imprint on the new nation. This accessibly written book will resonate with all those interested in the social and political relationships of early America |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Land settlement -- Connecticut -- Granby (Town) -- History
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Social classes -- Connecticut -- Granby (Town) -- History
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Rural poor -- Connecticut -- Granby (Town) -- Social conditions
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Country life -- Connecticut -- Granby (Town)
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Land settlement -- Massachusetts -- Ashfield (Town) -- History
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Social classes -- Massachusetts -- Ashfield (Town) -- History
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Rural poor -- Massachusetts -- Ashfield (Town) -- Social conditions
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Country life -- Massachusetts -- Ashfield (Town)
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Country life
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Land settlement
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Rural poor -- Social conditions
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Social classes
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| SUBJECT |
Granby (Conn. : Town) -- History
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Ashfield (Mass. : Town) -- History
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| Subject |
Connecticut -- Granby (Town)
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Massachusetts -- Ashfield (Town)
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Neuengland
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2009005784 |
| ISBN |
1282352024 |
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9781282352025 |
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0300139225 |
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9780300139228 |
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9780300156423 |
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0300156421 |
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9786612352027 |
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6612352027 |
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