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Our Company Increases Apace: History, Language, and Social Identity in Early Colonial Andover, Massachusetts
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by Elinor Abbot
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Cover Type: Paperback with 275 pages
Published by: SIL International May 1, 2007
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 1556711697
ISBN 13 Number: 978-1556711695
Book Dimensions:
8.9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
Weighs: 1 pounds
Product Description
This book is the first book in over thirty-five years on the early history of Andover, Massachusetts, founded in 1646 and one of the oldest towns in New England. It explores in depth the events that led to the town's split in 1710 England. It explores in depth the events that led to the town's split in 1710 into the North and South Parishes. In a departure from previous works on Andover, this study brings anthropological and linguistic perspectives to bear on the records, offering a new interpretation of the town's early history and the settlers' relationships with one another. Abbot follows the colonists from Britain to the Bay Colony through journals, marriage records, court cases, and other documents including the witchcraft trial transcripts of 1692. Combining text and analysis, she notes shifting factions and changing uses of English social identity terms such ascountry, blood, and company.The author argues for a reassessment of the key role of the company in particular, as both a unit of colonization and an enduring basis for social identity in early New England towns.
Richard Godbeer, Professor of History at the University of Miami and author of The Devil's Dominion and Escaping Salem, contributes an illuminating foreword placing the study in the wider context of early New England studies. Godbeer writes, "Abbot's book provides us not only with a refreshing new perspective on the early history of Andover but also with a significant and exciting new window into the minds and lives of early New Englanders."
FEATURES
* 11 maps of England, New England, and Andover
* 7 tables including backgrounds of 37 founding families
* 4 appendices including town seals and tax records
* Glossary of social terms in colony records
* Index of references to early families (162 entries)
* Bibliography of sources and references
Table of Contents
1. Well-Stored Andover: History and Language, History in Language
Philip Greven's Andover
Sources
Related Studies
2. "From the Native's Point of View": Emic Social Categories in the New England Colonial Record
Blood and Country
Company and Plantation
The Bay Company and the Bay Colony
3. "Our Company Increases Apace": The Planting of Andover
Bay Colony Expansion
Planting a Church-Town
Planning and Recruitment for Andover: The Gathering of the Company
The Planting of Andover
Who the Settlers Were: Summary Table
4. "Cochichawick Called Andover": From Plantation to Town
Frontier Andover
The Plantation
Features of the Town Center
Andover in the Regional Setting
Growth and Fission: North and South Ends Emerge
Settlement and Dispersal
What the Tax Lists Show: Summary Table
5. "A Motion of Marriage": Marriage and Alliance in Early Andover
Marriage in Andover
Marriage and Social Location
Old and New Social Identities in Andover Marriage Patterns
Marriage in the Second Generation: Covenanters and non-Covenanters
Cousin Marriage and British Regional Backgrounds
6. "An Axe at Andover": The Course of the Parish Split
Overview of Events: 1676-1710
Lines of Division in Andover: 1676-1679
Arenas of Conflict: 1680-1692
Blood, Country, and Witchcraft: 1690-1692
The Town Divides: 1692-1710
7. "As Bees When the Hive Is Too Full": The Aftermath of the Parish Split
Marriage and Social Crisis: Greven Revisited
Samuel Phillips and the New South Parish
The Peace of the Town
Appendix A: Town Seals and Anniversary Banners
Appendix B: Seating the Meetinghouses: Beverly and Tewksbury
Appendix C: The Reverend Thomas Barnard s Letter to Governor Dudley (1710)
Appendix D: Andover Tax Records, 1679-171
About The Author
Elinor Abbot received the Ph.D. in anthropology from Brandeis University in 1990. She is an Anthropology Consultant with SIL International.
Reader Reviews
The story of the English 'founding' of America has been written any number of times and with any number of points of view. But those all deal with with what we, on this side of the founding, think about them. Using the Etic/Emic distinction proposed by Ken Pike this book puts us into the mindset of the earliest English colonists of what became the United States. Though I have read some interpretations of the Puritan founding and its motivations (Perry Miller) until this book I have found them to be essentially wooden figures with very little life. Using the 'Company' designation and other related 17th c. categories, this book brought them to life for me. Though this is not the main thrust of the book, the author also gives an interesting interpretation of the Salem (and Andover) witch issue. Now a word about style. The book is a published dissertation and as such it reads like a dissertation. That is why I give the book 4 stars instead of 5 But don't let that stop you. This book is an extremely interesting read and, while not free of anthropological 'terms of art' is very accessible to the interested non-specialist. In the interest of full disclosure I should say that I'm a friend of the author's. But I think I've been fair and honest with regard to the book. If I didn't like the book I might not have written a review at all, but I wouldn't have written a good one if the book didn't deserve it. Boy, would I love to visit Andover (and North Andover) now. And to think, before I barely knew they existed.
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