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191 pages : 23 cm "Greenwich in the seventeenth century was a lost world with tythingmen and meeting warners, wild horse hunters, herdsmen, townsmen, pounders and planters. Faced with an ever-changing environment, citizens set many new-world boundaries. Farmers created common fields along the coast and redesigned wilderness. They balanced religious and civic authority, private and common interests and financial inequities across communities. The first comers found it more challenging to please their own than it was to please their God. Their departure from the past fashioned an idealized, yet still imperfect, new society the Puritans proudly called the Greenwich Plantation. Author Missy Wolfe details the strategies and setbacks of creating community in colonial America's First Period" -- Publisher's description Include bibliographical references (pages 175-182) and index Groenvits at first -- A political pawn -- A great massacre -- Colony control -- Local governance begins -- Growing pains -- Creating the town -- Old Greenwich designs Western Greenwich -- Expansion west of the Mianus River -- Byram and Pemberwick -- Seventeenth-century animal management -- Working the waterways --

Author

Wolfe, Missy, author

Publisher

History Press Limited, The

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781467138574

Subjects

History, Humanities

Updated

2026-03-24