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Yankee Destinies: The Lives of Ordinary NineteenthCentury Bostonians,Used
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This book reconstructs important milestones in the lives of 2,808 white, nativeborn men who resided in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1860 or 1870. Selected systematically from the census for those two years, these men represent two crosssections of those viewed by contemporaries as "typical" Bostonians.Using a broad array of sourcesmanuscript census returns; tax assessments; city directories; birth, marriage, and death records for more than twenty states; cemetery records; newspapers; and family genealogiesPeter Knights traced these men not only back to their origins in hundreds of small New England towns but also (for those who left) onward from Boston. He determined changes in their occupations and wealth and after they arrived in Boston, the fates of their marriages, their production of children, andin all but seventy casestheir deaths and the causes thereof. The result is a comprehensive quantitative study of important aspects of the lives of what are probably the largest sample population groups for any North American community.
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