Publisher's Synopsis
"John Grow of Ipswich, Massachusetts and Some of His Descendants: A Middle-Class Family in Social and Economic Context From the 17th Century to the Present places ten generations of a representative middle-class family - John and Hannah Grow of Ipswich, Mass., and one line of their descendants through nine generations - in the socioeconomic context of American history over a period of three and a half centuries. It provides a model for incorporating genealogical data into a more interpretive and contextualized form of narrative family history"--.