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A dictionary of surnames of the first settlers of New England and 3 successive generations prior to 1692.
"The Fine Art Collection of the New England Historic Genealogical Society -- America's founding genealogical institution -- tells the story of the United States. ...this important collection spans almost four centuries of American history."--Inside jacket cover.
As America's first historical society, the Massachusetts Historical Society has collected family materials since 1791, including long-cherished pieces of clothing that were acquired alongside papers such as letters and diaries. Because of the different storage requirements for textiles and manuscripts, these survivors-many of them hundreds of years old-have largely been divorced from their familial ties. Fashioning the New England Family, an initiative encompassing a fall 2018 exhibition and this companion volume, reconnects the textiles with the associated stories carried in the family papers. Generously illustrated with full-color photographs of garments, fabrics, and accessories, including exquisite detail shots, the book creates a lasting overview of the exhibition but also delves into specific topics. The chapters cover a spam of more than three hundred years, tracing the history of New England clothing from the colonial seventeenth century, through the Revolutionary eighteenth century, and into the national nineteenth. In these pages, readers will find a fragment of Mayflower passenger Priscilla Mullins Alden's dress; Governor John Leverett's bloodstained buff coat, which saw battle in the English Civil War; and the luxurious Spitalfields green silk damask wedding dress and shoes that Rebecca Tailer Byles wore at her 1747 wedding in Boston. Across these examples and more, the text traces patterns of global production and local consumption and reuse, demonstrating how New Englanders used costume to establish their situation, especially in terms of class and gender, and also to express their political affiliations. Patriots and loyalists-Hancocks, Adamses, Dawses, and Olivers-make many appearances, as they are so well represented in the society's rich holdings. Manuscripts drawn from the collections-receipts, daybooks, account books, diaries-further amplify the historical insights, even at times making it possible to interpret the way in which a specific garment may have embodied one individual's sense of identity. Distributed for the Massachusetts Historical Society
Beginning in 1924, Proceedings are incorporated into the Apr. number.
"This first volume in the Early Vermont Settlers scholarly prosopography study contains 137 sketches organized by town and presented in alphabetical order by head of household. It provides a better understanding of the outward migration of southern New England along the northern route to the early westward settlements in New York, Ohio, Michigan, and beyond—a path often posing challenges for those researching ancestors in the Old Northwest Territories" -- Publisher's description.