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Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Beginning in 1924, Proceedings are incorporated into the Apr. number.
The New England Historical and Genealogical Register
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Beginning in 1924, Proceedings are incorporated into the Apr. number.
Jonathan Belcher
Author: Michael C. BatinskiPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813194377
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
As early as the eighteenth century, New England's ministers were decrying public morality. Evangelical leaders such as Jonathan Edwards called for rulers to become spiritual as well as political leaders who would renew the people's covenant with God. The prosperous merchant Jonathan Belcher (1682-1757) self-consciously strove to become such a leader, an American Nehemiah. As governor of three royal colonies and early patron of the College of New Jersey (later Princeton University), Belcher became an important but controversial figure in colonial America. In this first biography of the colonial governor, Michael C. Batinski depicts a man unusually riddled with contradictions. While governor of Massachusetts, Belcher deftly maneuvered longstanding rivals toward a political settlement; yet as chief executive of New Hampshire, he plunged into bitter factional disputes that destroyed his administration. The quintessential Puritan, Belcher learned to thrive in London's cosmopolitan world and in the whiggish realm of the marketplace. He was at once the courtier and the country patriot. An insightful blend of social and political history, this biography demands that Belcher be recognized as the embodiment of the Nehemiah, perhaps as important in his own realm as Cotton Mather was in religious circles. Grappling with the contradictions of Belcher's actions, the author explains much about the complexities of the world in which Belcher lived and wielded influence.
The Belcher Family in England and America
Author: William Henry BelcherPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Adam Belcher - born 30 June 1756, died 30 May 1819 - married Elizabeth Bennett (1780); Sarah Bennett (1791).
the new england register
Author: The Sanders Family of New England & Some Connected Lines
Author: Gwen Sanders CravensPublisher:
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Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
James Sanders was born in about 1643-45. He married Sarah Page, daughter of John Page and Mary Marsh, in 1669. They had eight children. He married Hannah Tewksbury in 1687. They had six children. He died in 1721 in Haverhill, Massachusetts. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in England, Wales, Ireland, Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
Catalogue of the Genealogical and Historical Library of the Colonial Dames of the State of New York
Author: National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of New YorkPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Genealogies and Town Histories Containing Genealogies
Author: Goodspeed's Book Shop (Boston, Mass.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
A Genealogical Memoir of the Gilbert Family in Both Old and New England
Author: John Wingate THORNTONPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
The New England Merchants In The Seventeenth Century
Author: Bernard BailynPublisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1447489144
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
In detail Bailyn here presents the struggle of the merchants to achieve full social recognition as their successes in trade and in such industries as fishing and lumbering offered them avenues to power. Surveying the rise of merchant families, he offers a look in depth of the emergence of a new social group whose interests and changing social position powerfully affected the developing character of American society.
Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts
Author: William Richard CutterPublisher:
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Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description