| Title | The Chesapeake in the seventeenth century : essays on Anglo-American society / edited by Thad W. Tate and David L. Ammerman.
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| Published | Chapel Hill : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press, c1979.
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| Description | viii, 310 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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| ISBN | 0-8078-1360-5 |
| General Note | "Outgrowth of a conference ... held on November 1 and 2, 1974, at College Park and St. Mary's, Maryland."
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| Bib. Note | Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Formatted Note | Contents: The seventeenth-century Chesapeake and its modern historians / Thad W. Tate -- Servant emigration to the Chesapeake in the seventeenth century / James Horn -- Environment, disease, and mortality in early Virginia / Carville V. Earle -- "Till death us do part" : marriage and family in seventeenth-century Maryland / Lorena S. Walsh -- "Now-wives and sons-in-law" : parental death in a seventeenth-century Virginia county / Darrett B. and Anita H. Rutman -- "In dispers'd country plantations" : settlement patterns in seventeenth-century Surry County, Virginia / Kevin P. Kelly -- Immigration and opportunity : the freedman in early colonial Maryland / Lois Green Carr and Russell R. Menard -- Political stability and the emergence of a native elite in Maryland / David W. Jordan -- English-born and Creole elites in turn-of-the-century Virginia / Carole Shammas.
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| Subjects | Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) -- History.
Maryland -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Social history -- 17th century.
Virginia -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
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| Other Authors | Tate, Thad W.
Ammerman, David, 1938-
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| Organizations | Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.)
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| LC Card Number | 78-31720//r973 |
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| | WRHS Research Library: F 13 X C524 C6
mq24960: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 17884] |
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