Free Workers in a Plantation Economy: Talbot County, Maryland, 1690-1759 |
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acres addition agricultural appraisers artisans assets blacksmith bound labor Bromwell Bruff building carpenters Charles County Chesapeake Civil Judgments cloth Colonial Colonial America colonists coopers county's court craft craftsmen crops decades decedents economy eighteenth century equipment estate value Goldsborough Guy Williams hired horses household hundred IB&IG included indentured indentured servants Inventories James John Guy John Oldham joiners justices Land Records landowners leather Ledger lived livestock looms Maryland Mean N Mean merchants Michael's mill native-born needed orphans overseers owners ownership Oxford pair percent percentage period Perry Benson Peter's Parish plantation planters population ProvWills purchased Queen Anne's County Rent Roll repairs represented residents Richard Robert Robert Goldsborough sawyers served shillings ship carpenters shoemakers shoes skilled smith society supply tailor Talbot County tanner Taxables Thomas town trade Tuckahoe University Press vestry villages wealth weavers wheelwrights William woodworkers workers