Early American probate inventories / editor, Peter Benes ; associate editor, Jane Montague Benes.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Annual proceedings (Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife) ; 1987.Publication details: Boston : Boston University, c1989.Description: 184 p. : ill., mpas, plans ; 23 cmSubject(s): LOC classification:
  • F1 .D82 1987
Contents:
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.
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Books Books Stickley Museum Library (Non-Circulating) Main Reading Room F1 .D82 1987 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available SMCF23010170

Papers derived from a conference held 11-12 July 1987.

Includes bibliographical references.

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.

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