The brittle thread of life
Subtitle: backcountry people make a place for themselves in early America
By: Mark Williams.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9780300139228
Subjects: Land settlement -- Connecticut -- Granby (Town) -- History; Social classes -- Connecticut -- Granby (Town) -- History; Rural poor -- Connecticut -- Granby (Town) -- Social conditions; Country life -- Connecticut -- Granby (Town); Land settlement -- Massachusetts -- Ashfield (Town) -- History; Social classes -- Massachusetts -- Ashfield (Town) -- History; Rural poor -- Massachusetts -- Asfield (Town) -- Social conditions; Country life -- Massachusetts -- Ashfield (Town); Granby (Conn. : Town) -- History; Ashfield (Mass. : Town) -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue : nothing for history to say?; title: A place called Salmon Brooke; title: On penalty of loosing our freeholds; title: Zeal for the support of the darling liberty; title: In our corporate capacity; title: Settled our land according to your command; title: We ought to obey God rather than man; title: We do not want any goviner but the goviner of the univarse; title: As they shall judge necessary; title: Epilogue : a hazardous state and condition.