"The Modernization of Mayo Greenleaf Patch: Land Family, and Marginality in New England, 1677-1818."
Description
Patch and his wife Abigail "were among the first New Englanders to abandon farming and take up factory labor. They did so because rural society had no room for them, and their history is a tale of progressive exclusion from an agrarian world governed by family, kinship, and inherited lands." Family eventually relocated from Essex County, Mass., to the cotton mills of Pawtucket, R.I.
