ABSTRACT
This four-volume collection of primarily newly transcribed manuscript material brings together sources from both sides of the Atlantic and from a wide variety of regional archives. It is the first collection of its kind, allowing comparisons between the development of the family in England and America during a time of significant change. Volume 1: Many Families The eighteenth-century family group was a varied one. Documents attest to religious and racial diversity, as well as the hardships endured by the poor and working classes, such as widows, orphans and those born outside wedlock. Fictive families are also examined alongside more traditional family units bound by blood or law.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |78 pages
Multiple Families
part |18 pages
Wills, Estate Papers, Licenses
part |35 pages
Letters
part |24 pages
Literature
part |83 pages
Religious Diversity of Families
part |16 pages
Parish and Probate
part |29 pages
Petitions and Letters
part |37 pages
Literature
part |106 pages
Racial Diversity of Families
part |71 pages
American Indians and Atlantic Africans
part |11 pages
Letters and Literature: England
part |22 pages
Letters and Literature: America
part |87 pages
Poor Families
part |56 pages
Civic and Religious Efforts to Alleviate Poverty: Parish Records
part |31 pages
Civic and Religious Eff orts to Alleviate Poverty: Literature
part |104 pages
Fictive Families
part |81 pages
Correspondence, Memoirs and Minutes
part |22 pages
Literature