LEADER 04622nam 2200721 450 001 9910796934203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a979-88-908869-6-5 010 $a1-4696-0003-X 010 $a1-4696-1577-0 035 $a(CKB)3710000000371162 035 $a(EBL)4322212 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001599806 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16306350 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001599806 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14892783 035 $a(PQKB)10317759 035 $a(OCoLC)551524683 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse48558 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4322212 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11149917 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL929618 035 $a(OCoLC)935259686 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4322212 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000371162 100 $a19910305h19911991 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aProfits in the wilderness $eentrepreneurship and the founding of New England towns in the seventeenth century /$fJohn Frederick Martin 210 1$aChapel Hill :$cPublished for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press,$d[1991] 210 4$dİ1991 215 $a1 online resource (380 p.) 225 1 $aPublished for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8078-2001-6 311 $a0-8078-4346-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [335]-349) and index. 327 $aCover; 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 Towns 327 $aI. 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 Towns 327 $aPART 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 Division 327 $a9. Tax Assessment of Shares10. Franchise Restrictions; 11. Town Voting by Shares; 12. Town Land Fights; 13. Expansion of Land Corporations; Bibliography of Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; MAP: New England Towns in the Seventeenth Century 410 0$aPublished for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia 606 $aCapitalism$zNew England$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aEntrepreneurship$zNew England$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aCities and towns$zNew England$xHistory$y17th century 607 $aNew England$xEconomic conditions 607 $aNew England$xPolitics and government$yTo 1775 615 0$aCapitalism$xHistory 615 0$aEntrepreneurship$xHistory 615 0$aCities and towns$xHistory 676 $a330.974/02 700 $aMartin$b John Frederick$0484860 712 02$aInstitute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.), 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910796934203321 996 $aProfits in the wilderness$93777405 997 $aUNINA