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Fabend, Firth. "The Yeoman Ideal: A Dutch Family in the Middle Colonies, 1660-1800," New York University, May 1988. Advisor: Patricia U. Bonomi (11,2,16)
An exploration over five generations of a Dutch farming-class family, first in New Netherland and, after the British Conquest, in the Hackensack and lower Hudson valleys. Using public records—church registers, deeds, wills, court, tax, town, and military records—the study reconstitutes the Haring family and examines its structure, values, beliefs, aspirations, expectations, and its history from New Netherland to the new republic. As this family rose and prospered during the colonial period, and as it fell into obscurity after the Revolution, it retained many of its Dutch characteristics. The dissertation considers why, when they had been in America for 200 years, New York and New Jersey Dutch-descended farm families continued to be perceived as Dutch throughout the nineteenth century.
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