Beyond the Farm: National Ambitions in Rural New England

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Index Abbot, Benjamin, Jr. (father of Ephraim Abbot), 24, 30, 37, 42, 46, 51, 87,89-90 Abbot, Ephraim: ambitions of, 88-89, 142-43; autobiography, 130; childhood and adolescence , 51, 55, 87-90; education at common school, 98-99, 102, 108-9; education at academy and college, 111, u6, 128-31; marriage and family life, 171-72; ministry and theology, 130, 143, 161-62, 164-65, 168, 183; old age and personal reflections, 42, 183-84; overview, ix-x; returns home, 153; views of industrial villages, 157 Abbot, Isaac (uncle of Ephraim Abbot), 89-90 Abbot, Jacob, 188-89, 191 Abbot, Sarah (mother of Ephraim Abbot), 89 Academies: curriculum of, 104-5, no-n; discipline and emulation at, 111-17; establishment of, 103-7; numbers and influence of, 97, 104; social background of students, 106-7. See also names ofindividual schools Agriculture: See Farms and Farming Alcohol and alcoholism, 149, 160, 167 Alger, Horatio, Jr., 185 Ambition: Calvinist views of, 2-3, 165; Enlightenment conceptions of, 4-5, 15, 70; "fire" metaphors, 4, 7, 35; household economy and, 34-35, 42, 76; "industry" and, 30, 39, 73; liberal religion and, 70, 86, 120-21; nation-building and, 155; redefined as "laudable;' 139; republican views of, 7-8; Victorian views of, 187-88 American Antiquarian Society, 181 American Monthly Magazine, 127-28, 162 American Revolution: in rural areas, 36, 38-39; memories of, 134-36, 140; violence of, 37 Ames, Fisher, 49, 57 Ames, Nathaniel, 57, 58, 62, 81-82 Amherst Academy, 107, 108 Amherst College, 1, 165, 169, 181 Andover Theological Seminary, 142, 153, 161 Anti-Federalists, n, 42, 165 Apprenticeships, 30, 149 Atkinson Academy, 104, n9-20 Autobiographies, xii. See also individual autobiographies Ball, John, 108 Banks, 147-48, 156 Barrows, Nancy (wife of Charles Harding), 172 Bascom, Ruth Henshaw, n5 Bath (N.H.), 156 Beattie, James, 4, 5 Benevolence, 12-13, 88, 155 Bible: citations from, 35, 84-85, 120; as family heirloom, 85; as source oftruth, 181 Bonaparte, Napoleon, 70, 82, 140 Book debts. See Debts Boston (Mass.), 21, 42, 56, 149, 176 Brackett Academy, 183 Brattleboro (Vt.), 149 Brattleboro Academy, 109, ns-16 Brewer, Jemina, n5, 127 Bridges, 51-52, 54-55, 87 BriefRetrospective ofthe Eighteenth Century, A. See Miller, Samuel Brigham, Samuel, 160 Brimfield (Mass.), 52-53, 70-71, 77, 192 Brown, Clark, 52-53, 64, 7o-71, 77, 192 Bunker Hill, Battle of, 37, 42 Burnside, Samuel, 68, 91-92, 96, 131, 146, 181, 187 Burnside, Thomas: ambitions of, 146; autobiography, 174-75; childhood and adolescence, 68, 90-92; education at academy and college, n1, 131, 173; education at "private" school, 96; medical practice, 173-75, 181; overview, x; poor health, 91 Burnside, Thomas (elder), 18-19,31,55 258 Index Calvinism, 2, 29, 76, 78, So, 163-65 Canals, 54, 87 Capitalism: failure and, 147-48; industrialization and, 16o-61, 179-So; political economy of, 10, so-51, 63, 187 Cards: for cotton manufacturing, 156, 161; for entertainment, 146,175-76 Chastellux, Marquis de, 21 Chipman, Nathaniel, 14-16 Christian Observer, 120 Clark, Christopher, 87 Classing in school, 100-101 College of New Jersey (Princeton), 98 Columbian Minerva, 57, 62, 81-82 Commerce, 21, 44, 63 Competence, 34-35, 66 Competition, 62, so-51, 74-75, 117 Concord (N.H.), 24, 27, 40,46-47,51, 54-55, 87-88 Connecticut Courant, 62 Constitution, Federal, ix, 1o-12, 41-42, 44· See also Federalists; Nationalism Contentment, 18, 34-35, 78, 83, 87-88 Conway (Mass.), 163, 165 Cooper, James Fenimore, 123 Cooper, William, 66-67 Coram, Robert, 122-23 Covetousness, 71, 74 Crane, Ichabod, 102 Cranston, Joel, 136, 147-48, 155, 159-61 Credit, 147, 160 Cushman (Methodist itinerant), 150 Dartmouth College, 102, 173 Debts: book accounts versus promissory notes, 32, 159; during 1780s, 38-39. See also Banks; Credit Dedham (Mass.), 49, 57, 58, 64-65 Dedham Academy, 107 Deerfield (Mass.), 20, 22, 40, 103 Deerfield Academy, 103-4, 140, 154 Delbanco, Andrew, vii Doddridge, Philip, 89 Dow, John, 119 Dunbar, Abner, 38 Dwight, Timothy, 64 Education. See Schools and schooling Edwards, Jonathan, 76 Emancipation ofEurope, 140, 142 Emigration, 21, 26, 45-46 Emulation: at academies, 111-17; domestic prescriptions for, 73-77; Enlightenment and revolutionary conceptions of, 4, 10, 15; in "extended republic;' 14-15; religious and moral disputes over, 117, 12o-21; school reform and, 101 Encyclopedie, 2, 4 Enterprise: eighteenth-century views of, 4; in "extended republic;' 15, 44, 54-55; related to ambition, 53 Envy: compared with...