Rockland County, New York in the 1790s
Author: Jacquetta M. Haley
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 176
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Author: Jacquetta M. Haley
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 176
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: George Henry Budke
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 327
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Maldwyn Ellis
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2018-10-18
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 1501721275
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe transition from a predominantly self-sufficient economy to one primarily dependent on the market in the first half of the nineteenth century was to effect changes in the United States fully as far-reaching if not as spectacular as those accompanying the industrial revolution. Farming as a way of life was yielding place to the concept of farming as a means of profit. Few farmers in the country felt the impact of these revolutionary forces more directly than those of eastern New York State. Indeed, discontent over these changes contributed to the violent Anti-Rent War (1839–1846) centered in the Catskills. How New York farmers met these challenges is the central theme of Landlords and Farmers in the Hudson-Mohawk Region, 1790–1850. Focusing on twenty-one counties in eastern New York, David Maldwyn Ellis describes the process of settlement, the growth of population, and the characteristics of pioneer agriculture; traces the rapid shifts from grain culture to sheep raising and dairying; and points out the variety of individual and local adjustments caused by differences in soil, topography, accessibility to market, cultural legacies, and individual enterprise. Ellis also contrasts the forces leading to rural decline with the beginnings of scientific husbandry and agricultural education; evaluates the role of roads, canals, and railroads, and outlines the land pattern and the effect of leasehold upon the region's agrarian development. In short, this classic work of American agricultural history and the history of New York State—originally published by Cornell in 1946—chronicles the transformation of the pioneer farmer into the dairyman.
Author: Rockland County (N.Y.). Courts. Surrogate's Court
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Published: 1937
Total Pages: 198
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Bureau of the Census
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Published: 1974
Total Pages: 946
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. National Archives and Records Service
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Published: 1971
Total Pages: 116
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William V. H. Barker
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 394
ISBN-13: 0806310782
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1723 a number of Palatine families were allowed to take up lands in the Mohawk Valley of New York. Those settling in the bounds of the present county of Herkimer were known as the Burnetsfield Patentees, after the name of the grant made by New York Governor William Burnet, and are the subject of this formidable work. This book deals with the families established in the area before the Revolution, and detailed genealogies are given for almost 100 of them.
Author: Ruth L. Woodward
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2014-07-14
Total Pages: 683
ISBN-13: 1400861268
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese volumes, the fourth and fifth, complete the series of biographical sketches of students at Princeton University (the College of New Jersey in colonial times). They cover pivotal years for both the nation and the College. In 1784, the war with England had just ended. Nassau Hall was still in a shambles following its bombardment, and the College was in financial distress. It gradually regained financial and academic strength, and the Class of 1794 graduated in the year of the death of President John Witherspoon, one of the most important early American educators. The introductory essay by John Murrin, editor of the series since 1981, explores the postwar context of the College. The two volumes contain biographies of 354 men who attended with the classes of 1784 through 1794 and two other students whose presence at the College in earlier years has only now been demonstrated. During these years Princeton accounted for about an eighth of all A.B. degrees granted in the United States. It was the young republic's most "national" college, although it had nearly lost its New England constituency and was instead beginning to draw nearly 40 percent of its students from the South. Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author: United States. National Archives and Records Service
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 114
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