Suffolk County Wills
Suffolk County Wills

Author: The New England Historical and Genealogi

Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 0806310693

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Based on a long series of will abstracts that appeared over a period of 45 years in "The New England Historical and Genealogical Register", this work encompasses what amounts to the first 30 years or so of the Suffolk County, Massachusetts, estate records (1640-1670). Altogether, the series refers to some 12,000 persons with regard to family relationships.

Good Wives
Good Wives

Author: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2010-12-29

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0307772977

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This enthralling work of scholarship strips away abstractions to reveal the hidden--and not always stoic--face of the "goodwives" of colonial America. In these pages we encounter the awesome burdens--and the considerable power--of a New England housewife's domestic life and witness her occasional forays into the world of men. We see her borrowing from her neighbors, loving her husband, raising--and, all too often, mourning--her children, and even attaining fame as a heroine of frontier conflicts or notoriety as a murderess. Painstakingly researched, lively with scandal and homely detail, Good Wives is history at its best.