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Seeking to integrate recent literature on community life and on the political ethos in colonial New England, Edward M. Cook, Jr., examines elite recruitment and community structure in the four New England colonies between 1700 and 1785. In a massive sample of seventy widely dispersed towns, lists of towns, lists of town and provincial officeholders, biographical data, church records, town meeting records, and tax lists provide a core of material for analysis.

The Fathers of the Towns: Leadership and Community Structure in Eighteenth-Century New England

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    Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
    Publication Date: 27/07/1976
    ISBN13: 9780801821493, 978-0801821493
    ISBN10: 0801821495

    Number of Pages: 296

    Non Fiction , History

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    Seeking to integrate recent literature on community life and on the political ethos in colonial New England, Edward M. Cook, Jr., examines elite recruitment and community structure in the four New England colonies between 1700 and 1785. In a massive sample of seventy widely dispersed towns, lists of towns, lists of town and provincial officeholders, biographical data, church records, town meeting records, and tax lists provide a core of material for analysis.

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