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Hanging Ruth Blay : an eighteenth-century New Hampshire tragedy / Carolyn Marvin.

Title
Hanging Ruth Blay : an eighteenth-century New Hampshire tragedy / Carolyn Marvin.
Author
Marvin, Carolyn.
Publication
Charleston, SC : History Press, 2010.

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Description
125 p. : ill., map; 23 cm.
Subject
  • Blay, Ruth, 1737-1768
  • 1600-1799
  • Infanticide > New Hampshire > Case studies
  • Trials (Infanticide) > New Hampshire > Case studies
  • Unmarried mothers > New Hampshire > Social conditions > 18th century > Case studies
  • New Hampshire > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Genre/Form
  • Case studies
  • History
  • Études de cas.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (P. [121]-125).
Contents
Introduction: the end -- The beginning -- Testing the faith -- The great awakening -- Home and family -- Semptress and teacher -- A fall from grace -- South Hampton summer -- Portsmouth: summer of 1768 -- Politics and penal codes -- King v. Blay -- Hope and despair -- The Clough connection -- Epilogue -- Ruth's story as retold through time.
ISBN
  • 9781596298279
  • 1596298278
LCCN
^^2010017201
OCLC
610019346
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library