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... early marriages stemmed from sev- eral causes , not least of which was the ratio of 200 to 600 men to every 100 women . In the expanding population the ratio gradually changed until in 1790 there were slightly more women than men in the ...
... early marriages stemmed from sev- eral causes , not least of which was the ratio of 200 to 600 men to every 100 women . In the expanding population the ratio gradually changed until in 1790 there were slightly more women than men in the ...
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... early and wholesome habits of honest industry , and smoothing the wrinkled front of descreptitude with the smile of competency and protection . " 32 A few years earlier New Hampshire passed an act which empowered the Overseers of the ...
... early and wholesome habits of honest industry , and smoothing the wrinkled front of descreptitude with the smile of competency and protection . " 32 A few years earlier New Hampshire passed an act which empowered the Overseers of the ...
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... Early Settlement of Newton : 1639-1800 . Boston , 1854 . Jackson , John W. , ed . Margaret Morris , Her Journal with Bio- graphical Sketch and Notes . Philadelphia , 1949 . Jacobson , A.C. " Earliest Manhattan Practioners . " Medical ...
... Early Settlement of Newton : 1639-1800 . Boston , 1854 . Jackson , John W. , ed . Margaret Morris , Her Journal with Bio- graphical Sketch and Notes . Philadelphia , 1949 . Jacobson , A.C. " Earliest Manhattan Practioners . " Medical ...
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AH WILDERNESS WE LEARNED THY WAYS | 37 |
FROM SHANTIES TO MANSIONS | 73 |
37 | 105 |
Copyright | |
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