Books+ Search Results
Early American probate inventories
Title
Early American probate inventories / editor, Peter Benes ; associate editor, Jane Montague Benes ; contributing editors, Ross W. Beales, Jr., Kevin M. Sweeney.
Published
Boston, Mass. : Boston University, ©1989.
Physical Description
184 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Notes
The twelveth annual meeting of the Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife was held on July 11 and 12, 1987 in Deerfield, Mass.
Other formats
Online version: Early American probate inventories. Boston, Mass. : Boston University, ©1989
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 25, 2017
Series
Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife annual proceedings ; 1987.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-180).
Contents
Unlocking the semantic and quantitative doors / P. Benes and J.M. Benes
Matching inventory terms and period furnishings / R.F. Trent
The meaning of absence: household inventories in Surry County, Virginia, 1690-1715 / A.L. Hawley
Using tax lists to detect biases in probate inventories / K.M. Sweeney
Literacy and reading in eighteenth-century Westborough, Massachusetts / R.W. Beales, Jr.
Dress in seventeenth-century Cambridge, Massachusetts: an inventory-based reconstruction / P. Trautman
Women's property and family continuity in eighteenth-century Connecticut / B.M. Ward
Rhode Island handloom weavers: a probate perspective / G.F. Mohanty
First-period architecture in Maine and New Hampshire: the evidence of probate inventories / R.M. Candee
Delaware's Orphans Court valuations and the reconstitution of historic landscapes, 1785-1830 / B.L. Herman.
Subjects
Also listed under
Bookmark As
Citation
