Add to ORKGThis paper uses data from a colonial-period maritime household site to expand understanding of the economic and subsistence practices of fisherman-farmer families. The site is the 1777 homestead of Ebenezer Story on the eastern bank of the Thames River in Preston, Connecticut, about 12 miles from Long Island Sound. Like many New England Yankees, Story had a diverse household economy: he practiced subsistence farming, fished and shellfished, and owned a saltworks, boats, and cider mill in common with his family. During the Revolutionary War, Story leased part of his land for the construction of the Continental frigate Confederacy, and he opened a tavern in his home to serve the shipyard workers, two opportunities that proved lucrative. Story...
Seventeenth-century New England\u27s northern frontier has been an important but poorly understood p...
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, is a small seaport with a long history of maritime trade. The Deer Street...
This thesis focuses on the remains of a 17th-century house excavated at Ferryland, Newfoundland (CgA...
Nineteenth-century Native Americans from the northeastern United States became locally famous as mar...
This article presents analysis of faunal remains from the Burch House, an 18th-century house in Port...
The Tyngs were a wealthy family in Dunstable (now Tyngsborough), Massachusetts in the late- 17th and...
Like our colleagues across the Northeast, Delaware archaeologists have been challenged by the state\...
To modern suburbanites, life on a farm may seem hopelessly boring or, alternatively, charming and id...
Farming is typically associated with rural environments. The Dubois Site in Albany, New York, howeve...
Most people have an interest in local history, usually driven by a passion for identifying themselv...
The extent to which prehistoric populations in southern New England relied on anadromous fish for fo...
We use a genealogical data base to question the idea that the frontier was a safety valve for Amer...
Changes in the landscape across the Barrett farmstead in Concord, Massachusetts, are examined and re...
The research upon which this dissertation is based was collected over a four year period. The resear...
This dissertation presents the results of a comparative study of English colonial-period fisheries s...
Seventeenth-century New England\u27s northern frontier has been an important but poorly understood p...
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, is a small seaport with a long history of maritime trade. The Deer Street...
This thesis focuses on the remains of a 17th-century house excavated at Ferryland, Newfoundland (CgA...
Nineteenth-century Native Americans from the northeastern United States became locally famous as mar...
This article presents analysis of faunal remains from the Burch House, an 18th-century house in Port...
The Tyngs were a wealthy family in Dunstable (now Tyngsborough), Massachusetts in the late- 17th and...
Like our colleagues across the Northeast, Delaware archaeologists have been challenged by the state\...
To modern suburbanites, life on a farm may seem hopelessly boring or, alternatively, charming and id...
Farming is typically associated with rural environments. The Dubois Site in Albany, New York, howeve...
Most people have an interest in local history, usually driven by a passion for identifying themselv...
The extent to which prehistoric populations in southern New England relied on anadromous fish for fo...
We use a genealogical data base to question the idea that the frontier was a safety valve for Amer...
Changes in the landscape across the Barrett farmstead in Concord, Massachusetts, are examined and re...
The research upon which this dissertation is based was collected over a four year period. The resear...
This dissertation presents the results of a comparative study of English colonial-period fisheries s...
Seventeenth-century New England\u27s northern frontier has been an important but poorly understood p...
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, is a small seaport with a long history of maritime trade. The Deer Street...
This thesis focuses on the remains of a 17th-century house excavated at Ferryland, Newfoundland (CgA...