People, politics, and society in colonial western Massachusetts : Old Hampshire county and Massachusetts Bay to the Revolution /: Old Hampshire county and Massachusetts Bay to the Revolution. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Carl I. Hammer.
• Authors: Hammer, Carl I
• Contents: Chapter 1: “The Worshipful Peter Tilton” of Hadley: A Backwoods Puritan Populist Politician and His Books Chapter 2: “Being Old and Dayly Finding the Symptoms of Mortality”: The Troubled Last Years of Hannah Beamon of Deerfield and the Law of 1726 Chapter 3: “He Would Have the Honour of It”: William Huxley’s Madness and Slave Manumission in Eighteenth-Century Suffield, Massachusetts Chapter 4: “Her Natural Temper Disposes Her Much More to Dominion than Subjection”: Abigail Williams, Jonathan Edwards and the Indian Mission at Stockbridge Chapter 5: “To Promote Religion and Learning and Piety”: The Failure of Queens College, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, Revisited Chapter 6: “To be More of a Willow and Less of an Oak”: Charles Phelps, Thomas Hutchinson and the Failure of Israel Williams Chapter 7: “Laggard Revolutionists”?: The Coming of the Revolution to Hampshire County Conclusion: A “Surprisingly Modern” Hampshire County?
• Publisher Details: Lanham : Lexington Books
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 974.402; History: Revolutionary; History: United States / State & Local / New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT); Massachusetts -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781793634337
• Related ISBNs: 9781793634320
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