"Being Old and Dayly Finding the Symptoms of Mortality": The Troubled Last Years of Hannah Beamon of Deerfield and the Law of 1726.
In early 1730 two prominent townsmen of Deerfield, Massachusetts, petitioned John Stoddard, judge of probate in Hampshire County, to provide for the care and maintenance of Hannah Beamon, a widow of Deerfield who had become non compos mentis, since there was no one legally qualified to take charge o...
| Publicado en: | Early American Studies, An Interdisciplinary Journal Vol. 17; no. 2; pp. 151 - 183 |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
Spring2019
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