Covers the manufacture of iron, the life of ironworkers, and the use of iron implements in colonial times and includes a variety of related activities and a mystery story.
Photocopy. Ann Arbor, Mi. : University Microfilms, 1984. 21 cm.
Contents
1. Beginnings of Community development -- 2. Problems and prospects of family reconstitution and cohort analysis -- 3. Marital patterns and family structure in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania before 1741 -- 4. Duration of marriages, fertility , and family sizes: Couples married before 1741 -- 5. Mortality in early eighteenth century Lancaster County, Pennsylvania -- 6. Marriage and family in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1741-1770 -- 7. Marital relations, fertility, and family sizes: Couples married, 1741-1770 -- 8. Mortality in the middle decades of the eighteenth century: Lancaster County, 1741-1770 -- 9. Nuptiality in the social context of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1771-1880 -- 10. Marriage, remarriage, and marital fertility in Lancaster County, 1771-1800 -- 1. Mortality in the Revolutionary era, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1771-1800 -- 12. Revolutionary transition in eighteenth century Lancaster County, Pennsylvania -- Appendix A: Aggregative analysis of Lancaster Pennsylvania Church records.
