Toby Ditz explores the relationship among inheritance, kinship,
and the commercialization of agriculture. Comparing four upland
communities with a Connecticut River Valley town, she finds that
inheritance practices in the late colonial era heavily favored some
male heirs and created shared rights in property. These customs
continued into the early nineteenth century in the upland, but in
the commercialized river-valley town practices became more
egalitarian and individualized.
Originally published in 1986.
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