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Ledger kept by a Suffield, Connecticut tanner. Many of the entries are in "code" referring to entries in daybooks. Also includes an account with his son John Parsons, who may have been an apprentice to his father, and records of accounts being settled by Oliver Parsons as administrator of his father's estate.
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Jay Dolan transformed the writing of American Catholic history a quarter-century ago by telling the story from the bottom up instead of from the top down. In recent years a number of parish histories have appeared that reflect and expand this new methodology. They successfully relate the life of a local faith community to the larger religious and secular world of which it is a part, and reciprocally illuminate that bigger world from the perspective of this local community. St. Joseph's Church in Greenwich Village offers a fruitful opportunity for this kind of history. During the life span of this parish, the Catholic community in New York City has grown from a mere thirty or forty thousand t...
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Reprint of the original.