Coming Over Migration and Communication Between England and New England in the Seventeenth Centry

Name: Coming Over Migration and Communication Between England and New England in the Seventeenth Centry
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ISBN: 9780521338509

ISBN-10: 0521338506

ISBN-13: 9780521338509

Edition: 1987

Authors: David Cressy

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Coming Over discusses the English migration to New England in the seventeenth century and shows the importance of English connections in the lives of American colonists. David Cressy reviews the information available to prospective migrants, the decisions they had to reach and the actions necessary before they could settle in America. English men and women moved to New England with a variety of motives, and in a multitude of circumstances. 'Puritanism', involving religious harassment in England and the desire to follow God's ordinances in America, was only one of many factors impelling people to move. Rather than developing in wilderness isolation, the society and culture of…

Book details

List price: $32.99
Copyright year: 1987
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/30/1987
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 340
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Preface


List of figures and tables


List of abbreviations



'The excellency of the place': English impressions of New England



'A mixed multitude': the peopling of early New England



'Reasons moving this people to transplant themselves': migrant motives and decisions



'Needful provisions': the cost of emigration



'Promiscuous and disorderly departing out of the realm': the control of emigration



'The vast and furious ocean': shipboard socialisation and the Atlantic passage



'Occasions in England': debts, obligations and inheritances across the ocean



'A hankering desire for old England': homesickness, return visits and back migration



'A constant intercourse of letters': the transatlantic flow of information



'Dangerous and unsettled times': English news in New England



'The part of a kinsman': separation, reunion and the wider circle of kin


Epilogue


Bibliography


Index