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  • The Standard of Living in Colonial Massachusetts
  • Gloria L. Main
  • Journal: The Journal of Economic History / Volume 43 / Issue 1 / March 1983
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 March 2009, pp. 101-108
  • Print publication: March 1983
  • View abstract

    Based on findings in Massachusetts probate records, 1650–1753, this paper argues that the average value of consumer goods among farmers and other rural inhabitants in that colony did not decline over the course of the colonial period but fluctuated around an average value little different from that for an equivalent segment of the population at risk in Maryland at the turn of the eighteenth century. Similar findings by Jackson Turner Main for.colonial Connecticut extend this absence of trend to a wider area of New England and to the years immediately preceding the American Revolution.