Portrait of an Early American Family : : The Shippens of Pennsylvania Across Five Generations / / Randolph Shipley Klein.
An expert rendering of a strong kinship system operating for the benefit, advancement, and protection of its members.
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016] ©1976 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Edition: | Reprint 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Anniversary Collection
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (372 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Illustrations
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- Acknowledgement
- 1. The Family Connection
- II. The First Generation: Uprooting, Transplanting, and Creating
- III. Second Generation: Contraction of the Family
- IV. Third Generation: The Formative Period
- V. The Education and Establishment of the Fourth Generation'- The Primary Branch
- VI. The Establishment of the Fourth Generation: The Secondary Branches
- VII. Interaction as a Family Before the American Revolution
- VIII. The Shippens and the American Revolution to 1781
- IX. The End of an Era
- X. The Shippens in Retrospect
- Notes
- Appendix A. Vital Statistics of Five Generations
- Appendix B. The Shippen Family Kinship Network: A Schematic Presentation
- Bibliography
- Index