World of Credit in Colonial Massachusetts
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17th century ledger
17th century New England
American colonial primary source
American history primary source
annotated colonial text
archival discovery history
Barnstable colonial era
barter economy
book for historians
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Charlestown colonial history
colonial accounting records
colonial America book
colonial America ledger
colonial business transactions
colonial credit networks
colonial farming records
colonial household dynamics
colonial ledger
colonial Massachusetts documents
colonial New England
daily life colonial America
domestic labor in 17th century
early American economy
early American rural life
early American studies
early American trade
early American transactions
economic history primary source
economic life in colonial America
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family networks in early America
farming in colonial Massachusetts
gender in colonial economy
historical farming ledger
historical transcription
Indian slavery
malt production colonial America
Massachusetts colonial economy
New England coastal trade
New England farm economy
New England farmer diary
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primary source American history
Puritan
rare historical documents
rural economy
salt trade in New England
timber trade
women in colonial economy
wool industry
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- ISBN 9781625342874
- Weight: 705g
- Dimensions: 177 x 251mm
- Publication Date: 23 Oct 2017
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Occasionally scholars discover lost primary sources that change our understanding of a place or period. James Richards’s day book is such a find. This 325- year- old ledger had been passed down through generations of a New England family and was stored in a pillowcase in a dusty attic when it was handed to the historian James E. Wadsworth.
For years, James Richards, a prosperous and typical colonial farmer, tracked nearly five thousand transactions, involving more than six hundred individuals and stretching from Charlestown to Barnstable. Richards and his neighbors were bound together in a heterogeneous economy, reliant on networks of credit, barter, and sometimes cash. Richards practiced mixed husbandry farming, shipped goods by cart and by sloop, and produced and sold malt, salt, wool, and timber. The day book also reveals significant social details of Richards and his household, including his diverse trading partners, his extensive family connections, an Indian slave girl, and a well- dressed female servant. Available in both print and electronic editions, fully transcribed, annotated, and introduced by the editor, this record of economic life reinforces and challenges our understanding of colonial America.
For years, James Richards, a prosperous and typical colonial farmer, tracked nearly five thousand transactions, involving more than six hundred individuals and stretching from Charlestown to Barnstable. Richards and his neighbors were bound together in a heterogeneous economy, reliant on networks of credit, barter, and sometimes cash. Richards practiced mixed husbandry farming, shipped goods by cart and by sloop, and produced and sold malt, salt, wool, and timber. The day book also reveals significant social details of Richards and his household, including his diverse trading partners, his extensive family connections, an Indian slave girl, and a well- dressed female servant. Available in both print and electronic editions, fully transcribed, annotated, and introduced by the editor, this record of economic life reinforces and challenges our understanding of colonial America.
James E. Wadsworth is a Latin American historian, author of two books on the colonial Inquisition, and most recently editor of Columbus and His First Voyage: A History in Documents.
