publications of

    THE COLONIAL SOCIETY OF MASSACHUSETTS

    volume lxxxii

    OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY

    Donald R. Friary, President

    Daniel R. Coquillette, Vice President

    Celeste Walker, Vice President

    Robert J. Allison, Vice President

    Leslie A. Morris, Recording Secretary

    Martha J. McNamara, Corresponding Secretary

    Thomas Appleton, Treasurer

    COMMITTEE OF PUBLICATIONS

    Pauline R. Maier, Chair

    Robert Charles Anderson

    Donald R. Friary

    Christopher M. Jedrey

    Kenneth P. Minkema

    Conrad Edick Wright

    EDITOR OF PUBLICATIONS

    John W. Tyler

    NEW VIEWS OF NEW ENGLAND

    STUDIES IN MATERIAL AND VISUAL CULTURE, 1680–1830

    NEW VIEWS OF NEW ENGLAND

    Studies in Material and Visual Culture, 1680–1830

    MARTHA J. McNAMARA

    GEORGIA B. BARNHILL

    editors

    boston · 2012

    The Colonial Society of Massachusetts

    Distributed by the University of Virginia Press

    frontispiece:

    Jonathan Fisher, detail, A Morning View of Bluehill Village September 1824, oil on canvas, 25⅝˝ x 52¼˝, 1824–25. Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Me.

    Museum purchase, 1965.1465.134.

    Copyright © 2012 by the Colonial Society of Massachusetts

    isbn 978-0-9852543-0-8

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