A remarkable journey : the Ames family emigration from the County of Somerset, England to the commonwealth of Massachusetts, America, 1643-2013
2014
929.2 A513ta 2014
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Title
A remarkable journey : the Ames family emigration from the County of Somerset, England to the commonwealth of Massachusetts, America, 1643-2013
Variant Title
Ames family emigration from the County of Somerset, England to the commonwealth of Massachusetts, America, 1643-2013
Published
Ilminster, [Eng.]|Cambridge, Mass. Garner Books 2014
Description
ix, 251 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.), ports. (some col.), geneal. tabs., music, plates (somed fold.) ; 28 cm.
Call Number
929.2 A513ta 2014
Note
Plates included in pagination.
Traces the history of the Ames family, their Norman roots, their release from serfdom in 1478, and how two brothers, William and John Ames, living in a remote rural hamlet in England, made the momentous decision to emigrate to the New World in 1635; describes the economic and social conditions of rural people in the 16th and 17th centuries: the epidemics, lack of education, the influence of the local monastery and church at the centre of village life.
"Chapter. 16. The first Ames shovels and the revolutionary war": p. 205-213.
Author's incribed copy.
L2015G23
Traces the history of the Ames family, their Norman roots, their release from serfdom in 1478, and how two brothers, William and John Ames, living in a remote rural hamlet in England, made the momentous decision to emigrate to the New World in 1635; describes the economic and social conditions of rural people in the 16th and 17th centuries: the epidemics, lack of education, the influence of the local monastery and church at the centre of village life.
"Chapter. 16. The first Ames shovels and the revolutionary war": p. 205-213.
Author's incribed copy.
L2015G23
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