New England's generation
Subtitle: the great migration and the formation of society and culture in the seventeenth century
By: Virginia DeJohn Anderson.
Edition: 1st paperback ed.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Cambridge [England]; New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 232
Subjects: Immigrants -- New England -- History -- 17th century; Puritans -- New England -- History -- 17th century; New England -- Civilization -- 17th century; England -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 17th century; New England -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 17th century
Notes: Based on a collective biography of nearly 700 participants in the Great Migration.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Decision; title: Passage; title: Transplantation; title: Competency; title: Legacy; title: Appendix.; title: Distribution of ages of New England emigrants; title: Age structure of the emigrant population and England's population in 1636; title: Sex ratio for New England emigrants; title: The structure of household groups among New England emigrants; title: Distribution of households in England and New England; title: Occupational distribution of adult male emigrants; title: Timing of ship departures for New England; title: Ages at death of adult emigrants to New England; title: Relation of age at migration to age at death; title: Completed family sizes of men who emigrated as household heads