2024-03-28T13:35:20Z
https://nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp/oai
oai:nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp:02000154
2023-01-16T05:14:33Z
326:521:2089:1621385347297
A Note on the New Historical Documents of a Local Worthy, John Choate in Early National Massachusetts (Part 1)
建国期マサチューセッツの地方名士ジョン・チョートに関する新史料についての一考察(その1)
和田, 光弘
WADA, Mitsuhiro
建国期アメリカ
イプスウィッチ
ジョン・チョート
寡婦産ビジネス
大塩性湿地帯
Early National America
Ipswich (Massachusetts)
John Choate
dower business
salt marsh hay
This article’s main contribution is bringing to light some never-before-seen documents written at the end of the 18th century and now owned by the author privately. The newly found manuscript documents designated as “An Account of Things Sold by Public vendue and the Names of the Several Persons who bought the Goods belonging to the Estate of John Choate Esqr late deceased” pertain to John Choate (1737–1791), who was a local worthy in Ipswich, Massachusetts, and yet an obscure individual from historical perspective. The documents, therefore, have never been filed as a part of the Choate Family Papers in the Phillips Library at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts though they have a lot of information concerning a “common” people’s micro world connected with a macro market. At first, in this article, we investigate and reveal the life events of John Choate himself and his children as accurately as possible, utilizing existing vital documents, a family history book, tomb description, etc. Then, we decipher the handwriting with full of abbreviations on several pages of the manuscript documents and produce the printed text of some part of the manuscript with their photos. By analyzing his consumption goods and production goods listed in the text, we unravel the world of John Choate including possible locations of some 20 heaps of salt hay and English hay in his farm situated in the Great Salt Marsh, and the realities of what a character of the family book calls the “dower business” of his second wife.
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departmental bulletin paper
名古屋大学人文学研究科
2021-03-31
application/pdf
名古屋大学人文学研究論集
4
325
347
2433-233X
https://nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp/record/2000154/files/jouhunu_4_325.pdf
jpn