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Domesticating the West
In 1881 Thomas and Elizabeth Tannatt said a final good-bye to Massachusetts and the eastern seaboard and set out in search not of land but of opportunities for social and political advancement. Facing severe limitations to their goals in the depressed and disheveled postwar East, the Tannatts went west to Walla Walla, Washington Territory, to pursue their dreams of influence and status. ΓΈ Domesticating the West examines the motivations of late-nineteenth-century middle-class migrants who moved west to build communities and establish themselves as leaders. The West offered new opportunities for solidly middle-class eastern families who endured hardship, uncertainty, and displacement during t...
The Threads of The Scarlet Letter
The Threads of The Scarlet Letter offers new discoveries regarding the origins of Hawthorne's masterpiece, as well as critical interpretations based on these discoveries. Relying on a blend of close reading, biographical analysis, and archival research, this book demonstrates anew the power of traditional scholarship. The Threads of The Scarlet Letter illuminates Hawthorne's transformation of Poe's celebrated tale The Tell-Tale Heart and Lowell's long-neglected poem A Legend of Brittany and, identifying the hitherto-unknown author of the seminal narrative The Salem Belle, investigates Hawthorne's brilliant borrowing from that novel as well. The present volume argues that Hawthorne repeatedly...
Genealogies in the Library of Congress
Vol 1 905p Vol 2 961p.
Four Generations of the Descendants of Daniel Pierce
Daniel Pierce (b.ca.1611) emigrated in 1634 from England to Watertown, Massachusetts, moving to Newbury in 1638. He married twice, once in England, and once in Newbury, and died after 1654. Descendants and relatives listed lived chiefly in Newbury, with some living elsewhere in Massachusetts, and others living in Maine and elsewhere.
Tappan-Toppan Genealogy
Robert Topham lived in Linton, Yorkshire, England and made his will in 1550. His descendant, Abraham Toppan, lived in Yarmouth, county of Norfolk and came to Massachusetts in 1637 and settled in Newbury. He married Susanna Taylor (1607-1689). Descendants lived in Massachusetts, New Jersey, Indiana, Ohio, New Hampshire, and elsewhere.
Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Vols. 4-17 were done by Clifford Kenyon Shipton.
