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Author Vickers, Daniel, 1952-

Title Farmers & fishermen : two centuries of work in Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630-1850 / Daniel Vickers.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, by the University of North Carolina Press, [1994]
©1994

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  F72.E7 V58 1994    Available  ---  Gift of Dr. Brooke B. Hunter
Description xxii, 347 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Part 1. Improving the Lord's garden. Competency -- Commerce -- Contradiction -- Part 2. Farmers, 1630-1700. The rural economy of England -- Settlement -- Laborers, servants, and exchanging works -- Fathers and sons -- Tenancy -- Part 3. Fishermen, 1630-1675. The rise of North Atlantic fisheries -- Launching the fishery in New England -- Merchant patrons -- Fishing clients -- Work -- Society -- Part 4. Fishermen, 1675-1775. Shallops to schooners -- Clientage to free labor -- Seaport fishermen in Marblehead and Salem -- Cottage fishermen on Cape Ann -- Part 5. Farmers, 1700-1775. Markets and production -- Fathers and sons -- Servants and slaves -- Free labor and exchanging works -- By-employments -- Part 6. Fishermen, farmers, and manufactures, 1775-18850. Fishing : Revival -- Diversification -- Going gray in the service of the sea -- Leaving the sea -- Farming : Markets and production -- Relations of production -- The Northey Farm -- Manufacture -- Conclusion -- Appendixes.
Provenance Gift of Dr. Brooke B. Hunter
Subject Essex County (Mass.) -- Social life and customs.
Farm life -- Massachusetts -- Essex County -- History.
Farm life.
Massachusetts -- Essex County.
History.
Fishing -- Massachusetts -- Essex County -- History.
Fishing.
Manners and customs.
Genre/Form History.
Added Author Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.)
Added Title Farmers and fishermen
Other Form: Online version: Vickers, Daniel, 1952- Farmers & fishermen. Chapel Hill : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, by the University of North Carolina Press, ©1994 (OCoLC)621684602
ISBN 0807844586 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0807821489 (alkaline paper)
9780807821480 (alkaline paper)
9780807844588 (paperback ; alkaline paper)