The brittle thread of life : backcountry people make a place for themselves in early America /
Williams, Mark,1948-
New Haven : Yale University Press,
c2009.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue : nothing for history to say? -- A place called Sammon Brooke -- On penalty of loosing our freeholds -- Zeal for the support of the darling liberty -- In our corporate capacity -- Settled our land according to your command -- We ought to obey God rather than man -- We do not want any goviner but the goviner of the univarse -- As they shall judge necessary -- Epilogue : a hazardous state and condition.
Land settlement
Social classes
Rural poor
Country life
Land settlement
Social classes
Rural poor
Country life