![]() Claudia Walters eagerly took on the job of creating the accompanying maps. A great many others deserve recognition for their part in this work. I remain forever in your debt for all that you have done for me. I can only hope that the final product is what you hoped it might be. Like far too many authors, I have taken advantage of your kind generosity and tolerance. Your belief in this project and in my scholarship has been unwavering, and I am most appreciative of your patience and unflagging support. A huge thank-you is also due to Melody Herr of the University of Michigan Press. I would also be remiss if I did not mention the assistance of the volunteer staff at the Durham Historic Association who gladly made their collection available to me and who not as gladly, I am certain, shared a very hot afternoon in a museum temporarily bereft of air-conditioning, answering my many questions. I cannot say enough about the wonderful staffs of these fine institutions or about how welcome they all made me feel. The bulk of the research for this book, however, took place at the New Hampshire State Archives, in the Milne Special Collections at the Dimond Library on the campus of the University of New Hampshire in Durham, and in the Phillips Library (a truly underappreciated gem) at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. I was also the beneficiary of the exceptional level of service extended by the staff of the Probate and Deeds Offices at the Strafford County, New Hampshire, county building by the librarians at the New Hampshire Historical Society in Concord and by the archivists at the American Antiquarian Society. The staff at the Baker Library at Harvard University found a way to make my hurried trip to their cramped temporary facility (the main building was under renovation) both enjoyable and productive. I have also had the good fortune of working with a number of wonderful Page viii →people at the various archives, libraries, and government offices that I visited while trying to track down relevant information. Without this support, this project would not have been possible. ![]() Likewise, a Rackham Faculty Research Grant and Fellowship from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and Research Grants obtained through the Provost’s Office, the Office of Sponsored Research, and the Office of the Dean of the College of Arts, Sciences, and Letters at the University of Michigan–Dearborn, as well as a Research Fellowship granted by the Phillips Library at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, supported me in my numerous trips east in search of the contextual evidence necessary to reconstruct Timothy Meader Joy’s life and to tell his story. In particular, a Faculty Research Grant from Hobart and William Smith Colleges for the academic year 1998–99 enabled me to hire a student assistant to help in verifying an extant transcription of the manuscript and in funding a return visit to the Bentley Library to finish up my research there. Additional funding sources have been critical to this project as well. I never tire of visiting the library and of seeing my many friends there. More important still, I am forever indebted to the staff of the library for their always amiable and efficient help. Stevens Research Fellowship in 1998, in support of the project. Most obviously, I am grateful to the Bentley Historical Library at the University of Michigan for permission to reprint Timothy Joy’s prison journal as well as for financial assistance, in the form of a Mark C. Page vi → Page vii → ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The amount of time that has passed between the moment that I first conceived of this project and its culmination ensures that I have a great many people to thank for helping me at various stages along the way.
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