The Years of the Life of Samuel Lane, 1718-1806: A New Hampshire Man and His WorldUPNE, 2000 - 236 Seiten Samuel Lane, whose life in and around the town of Stratham, New Hampshire, spanned much of the 18th century, was truly a "Renaissance man." Civic, business, and personal concerns fill the pages of the diary he kept for over 60 years. The worries, dilemmas, and day-to-day work Lane detailed provide a compelling view of life in colonial New Hampshire. Together with his business records and family papers, Lane's diaries form an important part of the New Hampshire Historical Society's collections. Basing his narrative on careful study of this rich documentary legacy, historian Jerald E. Brown explores the life, career, and motivations of one man and his family. In a preliminary essay, editor Donna-Belle Garvin introduces Lane's world to the reader. The many illustrations of leatherworking, farming, surveying, buildings, bridges, crops, animals, and gravestones draw readers into the complex world and work that shaped Lane and his family. This fascinating tale is the most complete account now available of the life of a colonial New England artisan and tradesman. |
Inhalt
Mastering a Trade I | 1 |
Shaping Community | 45 |
Contents With Exeter People into the woods | 81 |
Exchanging Commodities | 105 |
Building Continuity | 139 |
Afterword Settling in the World | 197 |
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acres Andrew Wiggin apprentice April began Boston bought Bow Proprietors Building Continuity butter cattle Clark colonial committee Concord corn Court Courtesy New Hampshire cows daughters Day Book daybook deeds Diary Division of Records eighteenth century England Exeter farm farmers father flax Hamp Hampshire Division Hampshire Gazette Hampshire Historical Society Hampshire's Hampton Hampton Falls hides hired horse Ibid Jabez Lane John Joseph Joseph Mason Joshua Lane Journal June labor land Lane Family Papers Lane household Lane Papers Lane's Laurel Thatcher Ulrich leather Leavitt Management and Archives marriage Martha Ballard Mary Mason Massachusetts Mastering a Trade meetinghouse merchants neighbors Newmarket NHSA Paine Wingate pair pews Piscataqua Plan plow Portsmouth pounds production Provincial purchased Records Management River Rockingham County Sam Lane Samuel Lane Samuel noted settle Shaping Community shoemaking shoes sold sons Stratham Town Records Suncook surveying surveyor tanner tanning tanyard textiles townships verry Wiggin William
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A Primary Source History of the Colony of New Hampshire Fletcher Haulley Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2005 |