This paper is based on a court case of and Indian woman in Massachusetts in the 17th century. She was accused of killing her newborn. This needs to have a clear stand or thesis and be very well written. The paper MUST CONTAIN FOOTNOTES and a BIBLIOGRAPHY. Needs 5 primary and 5 secondary sources specified in the bibliography that must be used and sited through out the paper. YOU MAY ALSO HAVE A 5 HOUR EXTENSION ON THIS PROJECT…
Here are a bunch of Primary sources that can be used….I need five at least. I also need 5 secondary sources that must be sited with the appropriate footnotes on each page. The paper needs to be 8-10 pages long with out the footnotes. Grammar, style and punctuation must be clear and clean. Thank you
A Few Primary Sources

 

Noble, John, ed. Records of the Court of Assistants of the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay, 1630-1692. Boston: County of Suffolk, 1901.

 

Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts. Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1914. [Also available online: http://etext.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/Essex/]

 

Records of the Suffolk County Court, 1671-1680. Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, vols. 29-30. Boston: The Society, 1933.

 

Shurtleff, Nathaniel B., ed. Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England. 6 vols. Boston: William White, 1854.

 

Whitmore, William H., ed., The Colonial Laws of Massachusetts Reprinted from the Edition of 1600, With the Supplements to 1672. Littleton, Colorado: Fred B. Rothman & Co.

 

HBLL Subject Guide for History: http://guides.lib.byu.edu/content.php?pid=67188

This guide contains links to searchable primary source databases and secondary source indexes.

 

 

Massachusetts Legal System

Treatment of racial minorities

 

Bragdon, Kathleen Joan. “Crime and Punishment among the Indians of Massachusetts, 1675-1750.” Ethnohistory 28:1 (Winter 1981): 23-32.

 

Dayton, Cornelia Hughes. Women Before the Bar: Gender, Law, and Society in Connecticut, 1639-1789. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995.

 

Haskins, George Lee. Law and Authority in Early Massachusetts: A Study in Tradition and Design. New York: Macmillan, 1960.

 

Hoffer, Peter Charles. Law and People in Colonial America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.

 

Kawashima, Yasuhide. Puritan Justice and the Indian: White Man’s Law in Massachusetts, 1630-1763. Wesleyan University Press, 1986.

 

Plane, Ann Marie. “Liberator or Oppressor? Law, Colonialism, and New England’s Indigenous Peoples.” Connecticut History 2004 43 (2): 163-170.

 

Powers, Edwin. Crime and Punishment in Early Massachusetts, 1620-1692. Boston: Beacon Press, 1966.

 

 

 

Indian/English Relations

Communication

 

Bragdon, Kathleen Joan. Native People of Southern New England, 1500-1650. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996.

 

Cook, Sherburne F. “Interracial Warfare and Population Decline Among the New England Indians.” Ethnohistory 20 (Winter 1973): 21.

 

Kupperman, Karen Ordahl. Indians & English: Facing Off in Early America. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000.

 

Lauber, Almon W. Indian Slavery in Colonial Times Within the Present Limits of the United States. Columbia University Press, 1913.

 

Plane, Anne Marie. “The Examination of Sarah Ahhaton: The Politics of ‘Adultery’ in an Indian Town of Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts.” In Algonkians of New England: Past and Present, The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife Annual Proceedings, 29 and 30 June 1991. Boston: Trustees of Boston University, 1993.

 

Pulsipher, Jenny Hale. “’Our Sages are Sageles’: A Letter on Massachusetts Indian Policy after King Philip’s War.” William and Mary Quarterly 53:2 (April 2001): 431-448.

 

Salisbury, Neal. Manitou and Providence: Indians, Europeans, and the Making of New England, 1500-1643. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.

 

Salisbury, Neal. “Social Relationships on a Moving Frontier: Natives and Settlers in Southern New England, 1638-1675.” Man in the Northeast 33 (1987).

 

Simmons, William S. “Cultural Bias in the New England Puritans’ Perception of Indians.” William and Mary Quarterly 38:1 (1981): 56-72.

 

Smits, David D. “‘We Are Not to Grow Wild’: Seventeenth-Century New England’s Repudiation of Anglo-Indian Intermarriage.” American Indian Culture and Research Journal 11 no. 4 (1987):1-32.

 

 

Medical Knowledge

Childbirth

Midwifery

 

Benes, Peter, ed. Medicine and Healing: The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife Annual Proceedings 14 and 15 July 1990. Boston: Trustees of Boston University, 1992.

 

Christianson, Eric H. “The Medical Practitioners of Massachusetts, 1630-1800: Patterns of Change and Continuity.” Medicine in Colonial Massachusetts 1620-1820: A Conference Held 25 and 26 May 1978 by the Colonial Society of Massachusetts. Boston: University Press of Virginia, 1980: 49-67.

 

Evenden, Doreen. The Midwives of 17th Century London. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

 

Guerra, Francisco. “Medical Almanacs of the American Colonial Period.” Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 16 (1961): 234-255.

 

Plane, Ann Marie. “Childbirth Practices among Native American Women of New England and Canada, 1600-1800.” In Peter Benes, ed., Medicine and Healing: The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife Annual Proceedings 14 and 15 July 1990, Boston: Trustees of Boston University, 1992.

 

Robinson, Martha. “New Worlds, New Medicines: Indian Remedies and English Medicine in Early America.” Early American Studies 2005 3(1): 94-110.

 

 

People

Indians

English

 

Chamberlain, George Walter. History of Weymouth, Massachusetts. Weymouth Historical Society, 1923.

 

Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1965. Also available online: http://puritanism.online.fr/puritanism/Savage/savage.html

 

Vital records of Weymouth, Massachusetts, to the year 1850. [microform].

 

Religion

 

Bremer, Francis J. The Puritan Experiment: New England Society from Bradford to Edwards. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1995.

 

Cogley, Richard. John Eliot’s Mission to the Indians Before King Philip’s War. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999.

 

Cohen, Charles. “Puritanism,” in Jacob Ernest Cooke, Encycolpedia of the North American Colonies, 3 vols. 1993. vol. 3: 577-593.

 

Foster, Stephen. The Long Argument: English Puritanism and the Shaping of New England Culture, 1570-1700. 1991.

 

Hall, David D. Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early New England. 1989.

 

Morgan, Edmund S. The Puritan Family: Religion and Domestic Relations in 17th Century New England. New York: Harper and Row, 1966.

 

Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher. Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England. New York: Knopf, 1982.

 

 

King Philip’s War

 

Calloway, Colin G., ed. After King Philip’s War: Presence and Persistence in Indian New England. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1997.

 

Drake, James D. King Philip’s War: Civil War in New England, 1675-1676. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999.

 

Leach, Douglas Edward. Flintlock and Tomahawk: New England in King Philip’s War. East Orleans, MA: Parnassus Imprints, 1958.

 

Lepore, Jill. The Name of War: King Philip’s War and the Origins of American Identity. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998.
Instructions for Paper #1
Description of assignment: Your task for paper #1 is to write an 8-10 page research paper based on the primary documents distributed in class (as well as any others you or your classmates uncover) and, to a lesser extent, on secondary sources. Your paper should reflect your individual perspective on the significance of the case in understanding some aspect of the larger world of 17th century Massachusetts.
A successful paper should make a narrow, contestable, signficant claim and support it with evidence from primary materials, with secondary materials to provide background and additional support. You should cite at least five primary and at least five secondary sources. (I recognize that, for some of you, the bulk of your research will come from just one large primary source. If this is the case, please speak to me about making an exception to the five-source requirement.) Your primary documents should directly support the claims you make. Your analysis of the documents should be insightful and relevant. You should not just quote primary material but interpret it and describe how it supports your argument. Secondary materials should include the most authoritative and recent relevant historical works. If you use older materials, you should be able to demonstrate that they are “classics.” In other words, their research and arguments are still accepted as valid by current scholars. (You may find that you prefer the explanations given in older works to newer, contradictory explanations. In that case, you should cite both arguments and give your reasons for preferring the older work. In doing so, you demonstrate critical assessment of the historiography of that field.)
You should write the paper in a clear, smooth, flowing style and should avoid grammatical and spelling errors, tense shifts, and passive voice. (Passive = “The ball was thrown.” Active = “Jane threw the ball.”) You should follow the format laid out in the mock paper or in Rampolla’s Pocket Guide to Writing in History. Pay particular attention to length. The paper should be at least 8 pages long without including footnotes (which can easily take up half of each page), and all margins (top, bottom, sides) should be no more than one inch wide.