Thomas L Purvis
Biographic Data
| ID | 1148778 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas L Purvis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas L |
| FAMILY NAME | Purvis |
| SIGNATURE | PURVIS T L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Auburn University at Montgomery |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Proprietors, Patronage, and Paper Money: Legislative Politics in New Jersey, 1703-1776
Proprietors, Patronage, and Paper Money: Legislative Politics in New Jersey, 1703-1776
Journal Article Proprietors, Patronage, and Paper Money: Legislative Politics in New Jersey, 1703–1776. By Thomas L. Purvis. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1986. xii + 348 pp. $38.00.) Get access Robert J. Dinkin Robert J. Dinkin California State University, Fresno Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 2, September 1987, Pages 496–497, https://doi.org/10.2…
The Pennsylvania Dutch and The German-American Diaspora in 1790
Previous efforts to determine how many inhabitants of Pennsylvania and other states were of German descent at the taking of the first Federal Census in 1790 have produced estimates that vary greatly. This study presents an improved procedure for using surname analysis to calculate the German stock in post-Revolutionary America, and it offers new data describing the distribution of that group throughout Pennsylvania and the rest of the United Stat…
Why the Accepted Estimates of Ethnicity of the American People, 1790, Are Unacceptable: Commentary
The European Ancestry of the United States Population, 1790: A Symposium
[Editor's Note: The elements of this symposium came together through a combination of authorial initiative and edit rial design. Mr. Purvis's article was approved for print in mid-November I982. By a happy coincidence, Mr. Akenson's appeared in our office only a few days later. After each author had agreed to exchange comments, their articles were sent for further comment to Mr. and Mrs. McDonald. Pleased with the package, we do not intend to pro…
Origins and Patterns of Agrarian Unrest in New Jersey, 1735 to 1754
I have received Information upon Oath, that one Duncan Oguillon and one John Collier, were on the second Day of July last past, severally put into the Possession of the Dwelling Houses and Plantations ... of John Parks and Thomas Smith, late of Hopewell in the County of Hunterdon, by Daniel Coxe, Esq: ... And that in the Night between the Thursday and the Friday following, divers Persons unknown, to the number of Twelve or more, being all disguis…
High-Born, Long-Recorded Families: Social Origins of New Jersey Assemblymen, 1703 to 1776
A LTHOUGH the lower houses of assembly were the most important political institutions in colonial British America, collective studies of the social roots of the legislators' political power are lacking. The present article examines the assembly of one province, New Jersey, during its seventy-three years of royal government. Because of the assembly's small size, it is feasible to include all the legislators rather than rely on a sample. The lower …
High-Born, Long-Recorded Families: Social Origins of New Jersey Assemblymen, 1703 to 1776
A LTHOUGH the lower houses of assembly were the most important political institutions in colonial British America, collective studies of the social roots of the legislators' political power are lacking. The present article examines the assembly of one province, New Jersey, during its seventy-three years of royal government. Because of the assembly's small size, it is feasible to include all the legislators rather than rely on a sample. The lower …
High-Born, Long-Recorded Families: Social Origins of New Jersey Assemblymen, 1703 to 1776
A LTHOUGH the lower houses of assembly were the most important political institutions in colonial British America, collective studies of the social roots of the legislators' political power are lacking. The present article examines the assembly of one province, New Jersey, during its seventy-three years of royal government. Because of the assembly's small size, it is feasible to include all the legislators rather than rely on a sample. The lower …
Origins and Patterns of Agrarian Unrest in New Jersey, 1735 to 1754
I have received Information upon Oath, that one Duncan Oguillon and one John Collier, were on the second Day of July last past, severally put into the Possession of the Dwelling Houses and Plantations ... of John Parks and Thomas Smith, late of Hopewell in the County of Hunterdon, by Daniel Coxe, Esq: ... And that in the Night between the Thursday and the Friday following, divers Persons unknown, to the number of Twelve or more, being all disguis…
Why the Accepted Estimates of Ethnicity of the American People, 1790, Are Unacceptable: Commentary
The European Ancestry of the United States Population, 1790: A Symposium
[Editor's Note: The elements of this symposium came together through a combination of authorial initiative and edit rial design. Mr. Purvis's article was approved for print in mid-November I982. By a happy coincidence, Mr. Akenson's appeared in our office only a few days later. After each author had agreed to exchange comments, their articles were sent for further comment to Mr. and Mrs. McDonald. Pleased with the package, we do not intend to pro…
The Pennsylvania Dutch and The German-American Diaspora in 1790
Previous efforts to determine how many inhabitants of Pennsylvania and other states were of German descent at the taking of the first Federal Census in 1790 have produced estimates that vary greatly. This study presents an improved procedure for using surname analysis to calculate the German stock in post-Revolutionary America, and it offers new data describing the distribution of that group throughout Pennsylvania and the rest of the United Stat…
Proprietors, Patronage, and Paper Money: Legislative Politics in New Jersey, 1703-1776
Journal Article Proprietors, Patronage, and Paper Money: Legislative Politics in New Jersey, 1703–1776. By Thomas L. Purvis. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1986. xii + 348 pp. $38.00.) Get access Robert J. Dinkin Robert J. Dinkin California State University, Fresno Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 2, September 1987, Pages 496–497, https://doi.org/10.2…
Proprietors, Patronage, and Paper Money: Legislative Politics in New Jersey, 1703-1776
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