04622nam 2200721 450 991079693420332120200520144314.0979-88-908869-6-51-4696-0003-X1-4696-1577-0(CKB)3710000000371162(EBL)4322212(SSID)ssj0001599806(PQKBManifestationID)16306350(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001599806(PQKBWorkID)14892783(PQKB)10317759(OCoLC)551524683(MdBmJHUP)muse48558(Au-PeEL)EBL4322212(CaPaEBR)ebr11149917(CaONFJC)MIL929618(OCoLC)935259686(MiAaPQ)EBC4322212(EXLCZ)99371000000037116219910305h19911991 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrProfits in the wilderness entrepreneurship and the founding of New England towns in the seventeenth century /John Frederick MartinChapel Hill :Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press,[1991]©19911 online resource (380 p.)Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, VirginiaDescription based upon print version of record.0-8078-2001-6 0-8078-4346-6 Includes bibliographical references (pages [335]-349) and index.Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; PART I: ENTREPRENEURSHIP; Chapter 1 Entrepreneurship and Town-Founding; I. Varieties of Town Promoters; II. Profits; III. Land Policies of the General Courts; Chapter 2 The Leading Entrepreneurs; I. The Connecticut Valley and Connecticut Colony; II. Rhode Island; III. Plymouth Colony; IV. The Nipmuck and the Merrimack; V. Maine and New Hampshire; Chapter 3 Commerce and Culture; I. Frontier Expansion and Puritanism; II. Land as a Commodity; PART II: TOWNS; Chapter 4 The Creation of Land Corporations in TownsI. English CorporationsII. Town Covenants; III. The Separation of Church and Corporation; Chapter 5 The Use of Shares; I. Dividing Land; II. Financing Town Affairs; III. Voting; Chapter 6 The Exclusiveness of Land Corporations; I. Limiting the Membership of Corporations; II. The Nonproprietors of New England Towns; III. Towns Launched by Other Towns; Chapter 7 The Communal Ideal; I. The Landholding Community; II. The Social Community; Chapter 8 The Ambiguous Character of Town Institutions; I. Towns as Private Enterprises; II. The Clash of Public and Private Interpretations of TownsPART III: TOWNS TRANSFORMEDChapter 9 The Separation of Proprietorships from Towns; I. The Land Policy of Sir Edmund Andros; II. The Reaction of the Towns; Chapter 10 The Emergence of Public Institutions; Conclusion: The New England Town Reconsidered; APPENDIXES; PART I; 1. Real Estate of Town Promoters; 2. Timing of Church Formations; PART II; A Note on Sources and the Sample; 3. The Town Sample; 4. Covenants Creating Land, Corporations; 5. Reduction of Admissions to Land Corporations; 6. Town Residents without Land Shares; 7. Nonresident Owners of Land Shares; 8. Land Division9. Tax Assessment of Shares10. Franchise Restrictions; 11. Town Voting by Shares; 12. Town Land Fights; 13. Expansion of Land Corporations; Bibliography of Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; MAP: New England Towns in the Seventeenth CenturyPublished for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, VirginiaCapitalismNew EnglandHistory17th centuryEntrepreneurshipNew EnglandHistory17th centuryCities and townsNew EnglandHistory17th centuryNew EnglandEconomic conditionsNew EnglandPolitics and governmentTo 1775CapitalismHistoryEntrepreneurshipHistoryCities and townsHistory330.974/02Martin John Frederick484860Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.),MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910796934203321Profits in the wilderness3777405UNINA