Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: THE WORLD OF PEOPLE ON THE MARGIN -- 1 BIRTH, INFANCY, AND CHILDHOOD -- Phebe Perkins -- Anthony Hathaway -- Kate Jones -- Susannah Guinea -- Jerusha Townsend -- Susannah, James, John, and Isabel Brown -- 2 FAMILY LIFE -- Clarke, William, and Sanford Pike -- Patience and Abner Butler -- Judah Hazard Wanton -- Mary Cummock Fowler and Mary Fowler Champlin -- Sarah Gardner and Her Daughters -- Wait Godfrey alias Whitney alias Grafft -- Christopher Stocker and Abigail Harris -- Nathaniel Whitaker -- Robert Fuller's Family -- Thomas Field -- 3 WORK LIFE -- Phillis Merritt Wanton -- Mary Carder -- Olive Pero -- Elisabeth and Molly Hodges -- Cato Freeman -- Mark Noble -- Peter Norton -- John Treby -- Nathaniel Bowdish -- 4 REVERSAL OF FORTUNE -- Patience Havens and Her Daughters -- Elizabeth Springer -- Primus Thompson -- Benjamin Jones -- Ann West and Peter West -- Esther Heradon -- Margaret Fairchild Bowler -- Benjamin Champney -- Jacob Burke -- 5 OLD AGE AND DEATH -- Daniel Collins -- Obadiah Blanding -- Latham Clarke -- Abigail Hull Carr -- Elizabeth Stonehouse -- Bristol Rhodes -- 6. Conclusion: CONSTRUCTING A TRANSIENT S LIFE -- Appendix: Documentary Evidence and Background Information -- Documentary Sources for the Narrative Chapters -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Personal Names -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Place Names -- A -- C -- E -- G -- I -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- V -- General Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W.