How poor were the people who came to Maine in the 1700s?

Adams, John W., and Alice Bee Kasakoff. “Wealth and Migration in Massachusetts and Maine: 1771-1798.” The Journal of Economic History 45, no. 2 (1985): 363–68. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2121705.

The authors make a convincing case that the migrants who came to Maine in the late 1700s were more likely to be middle class than poor. How else could they afford the trip?

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Genealogy Maine January 25, 2024

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