A Little Commonwealth: Family Life in Plymouth Colony

xvi, 201 pp. CONTENTS: Introduction: An Historical Survey of Plymouth Colony; Part One. The Physical Setting: Housing, Furnishings, Clothing; Part Two. The Structure of the Household: Membership, Husbands and Wives, Parents and Children, Masters and Servants, Wider Kin Connections; Part Three. Themes of Individual Development: Infancy and Childhood, Coming of Age, Later Years; Conclusion: The Family in Comparative Perspective; Appendix: Demographic Tables; Index.