Unwelcome Americans : living on the margin in early New England by Herndon, Ruth Wallis instant download

Unwelcome Americans : living on the margin in early New England by Herndon, Ruth Wallis instant download

1 online resource (xi, 243 pages) :, \"Herndon has painstakingly reconstructed the lives of these most obscure early New Englanders ... The resulting study at once opens an important window onto the development of poor-relief policy in America and offers a fascinating account of lives and voices often lost to us.\"--New England Quarterly, Includes bibliographical references ([229]-235) and index, Birth, infancy, and childhood. Phebe Perkins -- Anthony Hathaway -- Kate Jones -- Susannah Guinea -- Jerusha Townsend -- Susannah, James, John, and Isabel Brown. Family life. Clarke, William, and Sanford Pike -- Patience and Abner Butler -- Judah Hazard Wanton -- Mary Cummock Fowler and Mary Fowler Champlin -- Sarah Gardner and her daughters -- Wait Godfrey alias Whitney alias Grafft -- Christopher Stocker and Abigail Harris -- Nathaniel Whitaker -- Robert Fuller's family -- Thomas Field. Work life. Phillis Merritt Wanton -- Mary Carder -- Olive Pero -- Elizabeth and Molly Hodges -- Cato Freeman -- Mark Noble -- Peter Norton -- John Treby -- Nathaniel Bowdish. Reversal of fortune. Patience Havens and her daughters -- Elizabeth Springer -- Primus Thompson -- Benjamin Jones -- Ann West and Peter West -- Esther Heradon -- Margaret Fairchild Bowler -- Benjamin Champney -- Jacob Burke. Old age and death. Daniel Collins -- Obadiah Blanding -- Latham Clarke -- Abigail Hull Carr -- Elizabeth Stonehouse -- Bristol Rhodes. Constructing a transient s life, Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002, digitized 2010, Print version record