Proceedings of a conference. Foreword by Whitehill and Sinclair Hitchings followed by eight essays on various aspects of the subject. Well illustrated. Minor rubbing of jacket. xxv, 294 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. 8vo..

Boston Prints and Printmakers, 1670-1775

Arts & Photography

Whitehill, Walter Muir

Hitchings, Sinclair H.

History & Criticism

Colonial Society of Massachusetts

Medicine in Colonial Massachusetts, 1620-1820

History

Cash, Philip

Americas

This is the first comprehensive scholarly guide to colonial Massachusetts law and legal records. The first section consists of a general introduction by the editor, Daniel R. Coquillette, and eleven papers, including contributions by most of the leading scholars in the field. These relate to every major chronological period and include substantial new research as to the eariest practices in New England.Many of these papers illustrate the impact of new methodologies and new attitudes toward the scope of legal history, encompassing not only traditional doctrinal studies, but also the use of logal sources to explore problems of social control and coercion and to describe more accurately the quality of life among all classes in the Bay Colony.

Law in Colonial Massachusetts 1630-1800: A Conference Held 6 and 7 November 1981 by the Colonial Society of Massachusetts

Legal History

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In Debt to Shays: The Bicentennial of an Agrarian Rebellion (Publciations of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Vol 65)

<p>In Debt to Shays takes a fresh perspective on the rebellion by challenging existing understandings of late eighteenth-century America and restoring the rebellion to its historical context</p>

In Debt To Shay's: The Bicentennial of an Agrarian Rebellion (Colonial Society of Massachusetts)

Gross, Robert A.

The Glorious Revolution in Massachusetts: Selected Documents, 1689-1692

Moody, Robert E.

A fascinating, immensely important primary source relating to the Salem witchcraft hysteria all the extant sermons that the pastor of the local church preached before his congregation from his ordination in 1689, through the summer of trials and executions in 1692, and into the aftermath of the controversy, when an angry congregation forced Parris from office. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

The Sermon Notebook of Samuel Parris, 1689-1694 (PUBLICATIONS OF THE COLONIAL SOCIETY OF MASSACHUSETTS)

Charles Morton was transatlantic Puritanism's most famous educator at the time of his arrival in Boston in 1686. His Logick System advocated the vigorous Aristotelian logic popularized by Melanchthon. William Brattle, a generation younger than Morton, was one of Harvard's most beloved tutors. Brattle introduced newly fashionable Cartesian logic into the Harvard curriculum. His Compendium of Logick ultimately superseded the text of his well known colleague and continued to be used at Harvard until the mid-eighteenth century. Although Harvard was a small provincial outpost in the history of logic, its position in America as a bastion of Puritanism makes it an excellent locale for the examination of one idiosyncratic strain of dogmatic, religiously-oriented logical thought. Morton's and Brattle's texts teach us much about the Puritans, especially about the epistemology, psychology, and theology that supported their particular form of religious rationalism.

Aristotelian and Cartesian Logic at Harvard: Charles Morton's Logick System & William Brattle's Compendium of Logick (PUBLICATIONS OF THE COLONIAL SOCIETY OF MASSACHUSETTS)

Literature & Fiction

The Printed Catalogues of the Harvard College Library, 1723-1790 (PUBLICATIONS OF THE COLONIAL SOCIETY OF MASSACHUSETTS)

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

The Eighteenth-Century Records of the Boston Overseers of the Poor constitutes the collection of the earliest and most complete set of records pertaining to poor relief in early America. In a substantial introduction, the editor Eric Nellis describes the process by which the Overseers of the Poor, a board made up of generally wealthy merchants elected by the town meeting, attempted to distinguish between the "deserving" poor, eligible for "outdoor" relief in their homes, and the "undeserving" poor, who were remanded to the rigors of the workhouse. Because each Overseer knew personally the recipients of public charity, researchers will find here a wealth of detail about the nature of poverty and welfare in eighteenth-century America. This selection of records includes admissions records from 1758 to 1800, births and deaths from 1756 to 1771, a census and inventory of the almshouse, as well as fragmentary financial records from the period.

The Eighteenth Century Records of the Boston Overseers of the Poor (Volume 69) (PUBLICATIONS OF THE COLONIAL SOCIETY OF MASSACHUSETTS, 69)

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