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Title

Philadelphia Inventories of Estate 1746-1775

Author(s)

Billy G. Smith, bgs@montana.eduFollow

Document Type

Dataset

File Format

Excel

Abstract

PHILADELPHIA INVENTORIES of Estate, 1746-1775 (Project 45). Value of Estates.

Source: Inventories of Estate for Philadelphia, Philadelphia City Archives.

Time Period: Start Date of Data Collection

1969

Time Period: End Date of Data Collection

1969

Time Period: Start Date of Data Coverage

1746

Time Period: End Date of Data Coverage

1775

Date of this Version

2018

Source(s)

Source: Inventories of Estate for Philadelphia, Philadelphia City Archives.

Publication(s) Based on Dataset

Numerous, including Gary B. Nash, The Urban Crucible (1979); and

1) Billy G. Smith, The "Lower Sort:" Philadelphia's Laboring People, 1750‑1800 (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1990). Hardback and paperback (1993).

2) Billy G. Smith, "Poverty in Early America," in Encyclopedia of the North American Colonies, Jacob Ernest Cooke et al., eds., 3 vols. (N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1993), 1:483‑494.

3) Billy G. Smith, "The Vicissitudes of Fortune: The Careers of Laboring Men in Philadelphia, 1750‑1800," in Stephen Innis, ed., Work and Labor in Early America (Institute of Early American History: University of North Carolina Press, 1988), 221‑251. Hardback and paperback editions

Related Datasets

See numerous datasets on Mead about 18th century Philly, from tax lists to city directories.

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Recommended Citation

Smith, Billy G., "Philadelphia Inventories of Estate 1746-1775," 12/31/69 - 12/31/69. 36. Philadelphia, PA: McNeil Center for Early American Studies [distributor], 2018. https://repository.upenn.edu