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Byrd, Michael D., “The First Charles Town Workhouse, 1738–1775: A Deterrent to White Pauperism?,” South Carolina Historical Magazine, 110 (Jan.–April 2009), 35–52.

Barth, Jonathan Edward, “‘The Sinke of America’: Society in the Albemarle Borderlands of North Carolina, 1663–1729,” North Carolina Historical Review, 87 (Jan. 2010), 1–27.

Gingrich, Kurt, “‘That Will Make Carolina Powerful and Flourishing’: Scots and Huguenots in Carolina in the 1680s,” South Carolina Historical Magazine, 110 (Jan.–April 2009), 6–34.

Goodfriend, Joyce D., “Foreigners in a Dutch Colonial City,” New York History, 90 (Fall 2009), 241–69.

Lund, John M., “The Contested Will of ‘Goodman Penn’: Anglo–New England Politics, Culture, and Legalities, 1688–1716,” Law & History Review, 27 (Fall 2009), 549–84.

Miller, Robert T., “Religious Conscience in Colonial New England,” Journal of Church and State, 50 (Autumn 2008), 661–76.

Morgan, Anita J., “Land Ownership in Colonial New York: The Case of Eve Pickard,” New York History, 91 (Winter 2010), 5–23.

Ranlet, Philip, “A Safe Haven for Witches? Colonial New York’s Politics and Relations with New England in the 1690s,” New York History, 90 (Winter–Spring 2009), 37–57.

Roberts, Strother E., “Pines, Profits, and Popular Politics: Responses to the White Pine Acts in the Colonial Connecticut River Valley,” New England Quarterly, 83 (March 2010), 73–101.

Sanborn, Melinde Lutz, “Zipporah in Her Own Right: An African in Early Boston,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly, 98 (March 2010), 15–30.

Sweet, Julie Anne, “‘That Cursed Evil Rum’: The Trustees’ Prohibition Policy in Colonial Georgia,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 94 (Spring 2010), 1–29.

Tonks, Paul, “Empire and Authority in Colonial New York: The Political Thought of Archibald Kennedy and Cadwallader Colden,” New York History, 91 (Winter 2010), 25–44.

Young, Ralph F., “Breathing the ‘Free Aire of the New World’: The Influence of the New England Way on the Gathering of Congregational Churches in Old England, 1640–1660,” New England Quarterly, 83 (March 2010), 3–46.

 

Babicz, Martin C., “For Empire, Colony, and Self-Interest: Thomas Fitch and Connecticut Colonial Politics” (University of Colorado at Boulder, 2009). Order No. DA3366573.

Outwin, Charles P. M., “Thriving and Elegant, Flourishing, and Populous: Falmouth in Casco Bay, 1760–1775” (University of Maine, 2009). Order No. DA3364693.

Shelton, Kenneth Andrew, “The Way Cast Up: The Keithian Schism in an English Enlightenment Context” (Boston College, 2009). Order No. DA3360144.

Sinitiere, Phillip Luke, “‘The Sad Tendency of Division and Contention in Churches’: Church Schism, Ecclesiastical Discord, and Clergy Dismissal in Colonial New England” (University of Houston, 2009). Order No. DA3361450.

 

Bunker, Nick, Making Haste from Babylon: The Mayflower Pilgrims and Their World; A New History. (New York: Knopf, 2010. xiv, 489 pp. $30.00, isbn 978-0-307-26682-8.)

Cubbison, Douglas R., The British Defeat of the French in Pennsylvania, 1758: A Military History of the Forbes Campaign against Fort Duquesne. (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2010. x, 241 pp. Paper, $49.95, isbn 978-0-7864-4739-8.)

Horn, James, A Kingdom Strange: The Brief and Tragic History of the Lost Colony of Roanoke. (New York: Basic, 2010. 296 pp. $26.00, isbn 978-0-465-00485-0.)

Nellis, Eric, An Empire of Regions: A Brief History of Colonial British America. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010. xxiv, 366 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 978-1-4426-0139-0. Paper, $32.95, isbn 978-1-4426-0140-6.)

Rockefeller, R. J., Their Magistrates and Officials: Executive Government in Colonial Maryland, 1715–1775. (Lanham: Lexington, 2010. viii, 285 pp. $84.00, isbn 978-0-7391-4186-1.)

 

McIntyre, Sheila, and Len Travers, eds., The Correspondence of John Cotton Junior. (Boston: Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 2009. 656 pp. $49.50, isbn 978-0-9794662-2-9.)

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