Author: Brown, Jerald E.edited and introduced by Donna Belle Garvin,
Title: The Years of the Life of Samuel Lane 1718-1806: A New Hampshire Man and His World.
Description: Hanover, NH, University Press of NE, (2000). 1st prntg. VG PB. Remarkable re-creation of life and world of an 18th century shoemake and tanner, surveyor and clerk, trader and farmer. Truly a "Renaissance man" Civic business, and personal concerns fill the pages of the diary he kept for over 60 years. the worries, dilemmas, and daily work of colonial New Hampshire together with his business records and family papers. Lane's diaries form an important part of the New Hampshire Society's collections. Jaret E. Brown served as editor of the New Hampshie Historical Society's Samuel Lane Papers while earning his Doctor of Philosophy in history from University of New Hampshire Includes publisher's letter to Jack Barnes, reviewer in Hiram, ME, with information on the book.

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