Our Company Increases Apace: History, Language and Social Identity in Early Colonial Andover, Massachusetts
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Abbot, Elinor
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2007
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SIL International
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Publications in Ethnography 40
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Table of Contents:
List of Figures and Tables
Foreword
Preface
List of Maps
- "Well-Stored" Andover: History and Language, History in Language
- Philip Greven’s Andover
- Sources
- Related Studies
- "From the Native’s Point of View": Emic Social Categories in the New England Colonial Record
- Blood and Country
- Company and Plantation
- The Bay Company and the Bay Colony
- "Our Company Increases Apace": The Planting of Andover
- Bay Colony Expansion
- Planting a Church-Town
- Planning and Recruitment for Andover: The Gathering of the Company
- The Planting of Andover
- Who the Settlers Were: Summary Table
- "Cochichawick Called Andover": From Plantation to Town
- Frontier Andover
- The Plantation
- Features of the Town Center
- Andover in the Regional Setting
- Growth and Fission: North and South Ends Emerge
- Settlement and Dispersal
- What the Tax Lists Show: Summary Table
- "A Motion of Marriage": Marriage and Alliance in Early Andover
- Marriage in Andover
- Marriage and Social Location
- Old and New Social Identities in Andover Marriage Patterns
- Marriage in the Second Generation: Covenanters and non-Covenanters
- Cousin Marriage and British Regional Backgrounds
- "An Axe at Andover": The Course of the Parish Split
- Overview of Events: 1676-1710
- Lines of Division in Andover: 1676-1679
- Arenas of Conflict: 1680-1692
- Blood, Country, and Witchcraft: 1690-1692
- The Town Divides: 1692-1710
- "As Bees When the Hive Is Too Full": The Aftermath of the Parish Split
- Marriage and Social Crisis: Greven Revisited
- Samuel Phillips and the New South Parish
- "The Peace of the Town"
Appendix A
- Town Seals and Anniversary Banners
Appendix B
- Documents: Seating the Meetinghouse
- B.1 The Beverly text: Seating the Meetinghouse
- B.2 The Tewksbury text: Seating the Meetinghouse
Appendix C
- The Reverend Thomas Barnard’s Letter to Governor Dudley (1710)
Appendix D
- Andover Tax Records, 1679-1716
Glossary
Bibliography
- Sources
- References
Name Index
Subject Index
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