Continuing the series of stories about my grandmothers and great-grandmothers, this week’s episode crosses the Atlantic to what was the British colony of Maryland to tell the story of my seventh maternal great-grandmother,
Margrit McClester.
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REFERENCES
Carr, L.G and Walsh, L.S (1977) The Planter’s Wife: The Experience of White Women in Seventeenth Century Maryland. The William and Mary Quarterly, 34:4 pp. 542-571.
Conditions in the Early Colonies, Smithsonian Museum of Natural History https://naturalhistory.si.edu/sites/default/files/media/file/wibconditionsearlycoloniesfinal.pdf
Life in Colonial America Prior to the Revolutionary War. American Battlefield Trust. https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/life-colonial-america-prior-revolutionary-war
McMillen, C.W. (2016) Pandemics: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
US history: https://www.ushistory.org
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
· Music: Thinking Ahead. https://www.purple-planet.com
· Thanks to Dr Suzanne Albary for inspiration and top tips!
· Thanks to Ben Robertson for ongoing updates to thinkthreeways.com
KEEP IN TOUCH:
· e: in8lives@gmail.com
· Think Three Ways website - project pages.
