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Goodwin, Lorinda B.R. "'A Stately Roof to Shelter Them': An Historical Archaeological Investigation of the Turner Family of Eighteenth-Century Salem, Massachusetts," Department of American Civilization, University of Pennsylvania, April 1993. Advisor: Robert L. Schuyler (Historical Archaeology, 2, 10)
This dissertation represents the first archaeological investigation of the Turner house in Salem, Massachusetts, popularly known as the “House of the Seven Gables.” The site was occupied by English settlers as early as 350 years ago, and was used by Native American people for some time before that. The house that is presently standing was built by Captain John Turner, a merchant in the intercoastal and West Indian trade. Three successive generations of Turner families lived in the house through 1782, leaving an intriguing legacy of artifacts and documentary data. Through the employment of a chronological narrative approach, this study suggests a method for merging the archaeological information with the documentary evidence to reconstruct an interpretation of life on the site, allowing the seamless incorporation of other research that has focused on the site.
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