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The yeoman ideal : a Dutch family in the Middle Colonies, 1660-1800

In the decade after the British Conquest of New Netherland, thirteen families, most of Dutch background, cooperatively purchased a tract of land on the west side of the Hudson River, established a cohesive church-oriented community, set about advancing their economic and political opportunities in British America, and in general began living out what later came to be thought of as the "yeoman ideal"--Jefferson's vision of America as a nation of independent, virtuous, and politically aware farmers.

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  • "In the decade after the British Conquest of New Netherland, thirteen families, most of Dutch background, cooperatively purchased a tract of land on the west side of the Hudson River, established a cohesive church-oriented community, set about advancing their economic and political opportunities in British America, and in general began living out what later came to be thought of as the "yeoman ideal"--Jefferson's vision of America as a nation of independent, virtuous, and politically aware farmers."@en
  • "Answers are forthcoming by reconstituting this specific Dutch-descended family through the public record and examining the totality of its experience in America--from New Netherland to the new republic."@en
  • "This study investigates one of these families--the Haring family--from its New Netherland beginnings to its reasons for leaving British New York to its demographic characteristics and its goals, values, ideals, and strategies for betterment. The political and religious orientation of the family (Leislerian and Pietist), its material culture, its agricultural methods, the farm economy, and its inheritance patterns over five generations receive major attention. Also considered in depth are the schism in the Dutch Reformed Church over "home rule" and the New Light Revival and the schism's foreshadowing of issues increasingly prominent as the Revolution approached--particularly as they relate to the Leislerian and Pietist backgrounds of the settler generation."@en
  • "From church records, land, tax, court, town, military and probate records in public archives a fascinating portrait emerges of this colonial farming-class family. But it is a picture that is in some respects puzzling, for it also raises a number of questions: Why did the Dutch farming families in New York and New Jersey retain their Dutchness over so many generations? What could "Dutchness," in fact, have been after 200 years in America? Was it a defense against the process of change from an agricultural to a commercial society? Did the "Dutch" farmer nostalgically reinvent in the nineteenth century a remembered golden age? Or did the Dutch have reason to be ambivalent about America and about becoming American?"@en

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  • "History"@en
  • "Dissertations, Academic"@en

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  • "The yeoman ideal : a Dutch family in the Middle Colonies, 1660-1800"@en
  • "The yeoman ideal: A Dutch family in the Middle Colonies, 1660-1800"@en
  • "The Yeoman ideal : a Dutch family in the Middle Colonies, 1660-1800"@en
  • "The yeoman ideal a Dutch family in the middle colonies, 1660-1800"@en
  • "The yeoman ideal : a Dutch family in the Middle Colonies, 1660-1800"

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