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Title	'Up through the hawse hole' : the social origins and lives of salem shipmates, 1640 to 1720
Author	Walsh, Vince (Vincent Joseph), 1948-
Description	Thesis (M.A.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1996. History
Date	1995
Pagination	212 leaves
Subject	Ship captains--Massachusetts--Salem; Salem (Mass.)--Social conditions
Degree	M.A.
Degree Grantor	Memorial University of Newfoundland. Dept. of History
Discipline	History
Language	Eng
Spatial Coverage	United States--Massachusetts--Salem
Temporal Coverage	1640-1720 17th Century 18th Century
Notes	Bibliography: leaves 181-189.
Abstract	This thesis argues that the early colonial shipmasters of Salem lived different social lives from what much of the literature has described for the master mariner under sail. Generally, they had urban rather than rural roots and came from all levels and occupations of Salem society. The relationship between shipmaster and mariner was defined by one of paternal and fraternal bonds and cut along vertical lines of community rather than along horizontal lines of class. Neither the shipmaster nor the mariner of Salem belonged to the ranks of the dispossessed, as some maritime historians have suggested, but were connected to the town socially and culturally through ties of blood and marriage. Finally, some assumptions regarding marriage patterns in Massachusetts need to be revised regarding the maritime community of Salem. Remarriage was much more common than has been previously suggested. To obtain economic support for themselves and their children, widows remarried frequently if they were of child bearing age, or they were often heavily dependent upon their adult children if older.
Type	Text
Resource Type	Electronic thesis or dissertation
Format	Image/jpeg; Application/pdf
Source	Paper copy kept in the Centre for Newfoundland Studies, Memorial University Libraries
Local Identifier	a1137966
Rights	The author retains copyright ownership and moral rights in this thesis. Neither the thesis nor substantial extracts from it may be printed or otherwise reproduced without the author's permission.
Collection	Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Scanning Status	Completed
PDF File	(0.50 MB) -- http://collections.mun.ca/PDFs/theses/vincejwalsh.pdf
CONTENTdm file name	16103.cpd