Date of Award
7-1936
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
First Advisor
M.E.Cochran
Keywords
Land tenure, United States, History, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Abstract
The problem involved in this thesis is the effect of the colonial land system upon the social, political, and economic phases of colonial society.
The writer examined the following primary source material: Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New York; Hart, Source Book in American History; James, Narratives of New Netherland 1609-1664; Myers, Narratives of Early Pennsylvania, West New Jersey and Delaware 1630-1707; Phillips, Plantation and Frontier Documents 1649-1863; Tyler, Narratives of Early Virginia 1606-1625.
The secondary material which was most helpful n this study was: Dexter, History of Education of the United States; Jernegan, The American Colonies 1492-1750; Weeden, Economic and Social History of New England 1620-1789; Adams, Provincial Society 1690-1763; and Doyle, English Colonies in America.
Special works which were most helpful are: Akagi, The Town Proprietors of the New England Colonies; Bond, The Quit-Rent System in the American Colonies; Egleston, The land System in the New England Colonies; Ford, Colonia Precedents of our National Land System as it Existed in 1800; and Treat, "Origin of the National Land System under the Confederacy."
It may reasonably be concluded from the study of this subject that the land system effected the social, political, and economic phases of colonial society, which are explained in the last chapter of the thesis.
Recommended Citation
Kaiser, Chester Carl, "A Historical study of the effects of the colonial land system : social, political, economic" (1936). Electronic Theses & Dissertations. 765.
https://digitalcommons.pittstate.edu/etd/765
