Our Company Increases Apace: History, Language and Social Identity in Early Colonial Andover, Massachusetts

List of Figures and Tables

Foreword

Preface

List of Maps

1. "Well-Stored" Andover: History and Language, History in Language
   • Philip Greven’s Andover
   • Sources
   • Related Studies
2. "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
3. "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
4. "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
5. "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
6. "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
7. "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