Author: Benjamin Lynde
Publisher:
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Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Author: Benjamin Lynde
Publisher:
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Category : Judges
Languages : en
Pages : 251

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Author: Benjamin Lynde
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN: 9781230170909
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 edition. Excerpt: ...about 5 p. M. where with Judge Saltonstall lodged. 14/A. Tuesday. We paid Cushing about 10" apiece, thence to Cushing's of Hingham, where breakfasted, 3"; thence to Sylvester's, hay and cyder, i," thence by 2 o'clock to the Court dinner. Deacon Alden drowned by a boat's oversetting, tho' four others that were in the boat were spared by the canoe. i$th. Wednesday. Fair but cool morning; chocolate breakfast and eggs; supped with Sewall and Walley. 16th. Thursday. Fair and cool morning. A French master of a sloop, last from Stacia, by his story contradicts the newspapers of Admiral Vernon's destroying the 15 French men-of-war at Port St. Lewis, but he has contradicted his own story himself, and so not to be credited. 17th. Fryday. Fair and warm morning. Capt. Ruggles gone yesterday for a Letter of Marque to go from Plymouth with a sloop in pursuit of this suspicious sloop of the said Frenchman. Oyster supper with all the Court. igth. Lord's Day. Mr. Clap preached all day, and at night at the young men's meeting; I contributed 7? 6? I supped at Mr. Leonard's. 20th. Monday. Cloudy morning after last night's small rain, but in afternoon, cold, with N. W. wind all day. Tewksbury's account of their seeing Admiral Vernon's Fleet. 2%d. Thursday. General Fast; contributed about 5? Br. dined and supped at Mr. Thomas'. 24M. Fryday. AE yesterday, cold and cloudy; N. E wind and storm, and this night, rain which continues this morning and still 26tA. Lords Day. Mr. Leonard; contributed, 5? 27/A. Monday. For Barnstable Court; lodged at Sheriff Russell's. 28th. Tuesday. Opened Court. 29///. Wednesday. Mr. Timo. Ruggles blooded my Rosy who has the scratches. $0th. Thursday. Raw foul weather, and has been this two or three days. May 1st....

Author: Benjamin Lynde
Publisher: Sagwan Press
ISBN: 9781297911774
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author: William Matthews
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 404

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Author: John Adams
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1424

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Author: Jeroen Dewulf
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496808827
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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The Pinkster King and the King of Kongo presents the history of the nation's forgotten Dutch slave community and free Dutch-speaking African Americans from seventeenth-century New Amsterdam to nineteenth-century New York and New Jersey. It also develops a provocative new interpretation of one of America's most intriguing black folkloric traditions, Pinkster. Jeroen Dewulf rejects the usual interpretation of this celebration of a "slave king" as a form of carnival. Instead, he shows that it is a ritual rooted in mutual-aid and slave brotherhood traditions. By placing these traditions in an Atlantic context, Dewulf identifies striking parallels to royal election rituals in slave communities elsewhere in the Americas, and he traces these rituals to the ancient Kingdom of Kongo and the impact of Portuguese culture in West-Central Africa. Dewulf's focus on the social capital of slaves follows the mutual aid to seventeenth-century Manhattan. He suggests a much stronger impact of Manhattan's first slave community on the development of African American identity in New York and New Jersey than hitherto assumed. While the earliest works on slave culture in a North American context concentrated on an assumed process of assimilation according to European standards, later studies pointed out the need to look for indigenous African continuities. The Pinkster King and the King of Kongo suggests the necessity for an increased focus on the substantial contact that many Africans had with European--primarily Portuguese--cultures before they were shipped as slaves to the Americas. The book has already garnered honors as the winner of the Richard O. Collins Award in African Studies, the New Netherland Institute Hendricks Award, and the Clague and Carol Van Slyke Prize.

Author: Samuel Adams
Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 480

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Author: Martha J. McNamara
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801873959
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 222

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During the formative years of the American republic, lawyers and architects, both eager to secure public affirmation of their professional status, worked together to create specialized, purpose-built courthouses to replace the informal judicial settings in which trials took place during the colonial era. In From Tavern to Courthouse, Martha J. McNamara addresses this fundamental redefinition of civic space in Massachusetts. Professional collaboration, she argues, benefitted both lawyers and architects, as it reinforced their desire to be perceived as trained specialists solely concerned with promoting the public good. These courthouses, now reserved exclusively for legal proceedings and occupying specialized locations in the town plans represented a new vision for the design, organization, and function of civic space. McNamara shows how courthouse spaces were refined to reflect the increasingly professionalized judicial system and particularly to accommodate the rapidly growing participation of lawyers in legal proceedings. In following this evolution of judicial space from taverns and town houses to monumental courthouse complexes, she discusses the construction of Boston's first civic building, the 1658 Town House, and its significance for colonial law and commerce; the rise of professionally trained lawyers through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; and changes in judicial rituals at the turn of the century and development of specialized judicial landscapes. A case study of three courthouses built in Essex County between 1785 and 1805, delineates these changes as they unfold in one county over a thirty year period. Concise and clearly written, From Tavern to Courthouse reveals the processes by which architects and lawyers crafted new judicial spaces to provide a specialized, exclusive venue in which lawyers could articulate their professional status.

Author: David Hackett Fischer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982145110
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 960

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In this sweeping, foundational work, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David Hackett Fischer draws on extensive research to show how enslaved Africans and their descendants enlarged American ideas of freedom in varying ways in different regions of the early United States. African Founders explores the little-known history of how enslaved people from different regions of Africa interacted with colonists of European origins to create new regional cultures in the colonial United States. The Africans brought with them linguistic skills, novel techniques of animal husbandry and farming, and generations-old ethical principles, among other attributes. This startling history reveals how much our country was shaped by these African influences in its early years, producing a new, distinctly American culture. Drawing on decades of research, some of it in western Africa, Fischer recreates the diverse regional life that shaped the early American republic. He shows that there were varieties of slavery in America and varieties of new American culture, from Puritan New England to Dutch New York, Quaker Pennsylvania, cavalier Virginia, coastal Carolina, and Louisiana and Texas. This landmark work of history will transform our understanding of America’s origins.