Early American probate inventories - Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife 1987); Benes, Peter; Benes, Jane Montague (Boston : Boston University, 1989)
Introduction: unlocking the semantic and quantitative doors / Peter Benes and Jane Montague Benes -- Matching inventory terms and period furnishings / Robert F. Trent -- The meaning of absence: household inventories in Surry County, Virginia, 1690-1715 / Anna L. Hawley -- Using tax lists to detect biases in probate inventories / Kevin M. Sweeney -- Literacy and reading in eighteenth-century Westborough, Massachusetts / Ross W. Beales, Jr. -- Dress in seventeenth-century Cambridge, Massachusetts: an inventory-based reconstruction / Patricia Trautman -- Women's property and family continuity in eighteenth-century Connecticut / Barbara McLean Ward -- Rhode Island handloom weavers: a probate perspective / Gail Fowler Mohanty -- First-period architecture in Maine and New Hampshire: the evidence of probate inventories / Richard M. Candee -- Delaware's orphans court valuations and the reconstitution of historic landscapes, 1785-1830 / Bernard L. Herman -- Sleeping arrangements in early Massachusetts: the Newbury household of Henry Lunt, hatter / Peter Benes -- The distribution of consumer goods in colonial New England: a subregional approach / Gloria L. Main.
Papers derived from a conference held 11-12 July 1987.
Includes bibliographical references.
BGCFOLIO.
Keywords: Probate law and practice -- United States -- History -- Congresses; Inventories -- United States -- History -- Congresses; United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Congresses