Not For Filthy Lucre's Sake: Richard Saltar and the Antiproprietary Movement in East New Jersey, 1665-1707 (Studies in Eighteenth-Century America and the Atlantic World)

by Daniel J. Weeks

Not for Filth Lucre's Sake tells the story of Richard Saltar -- an early settler of Freehold, New Jersey, and an ancestor of Abraham Lincoln -- who helped overthrow the oppressive proprietary government of colonial New Jersey. The book is the first in-depth study of the motivations of the antiproprietary movement.

• ISBN10: 0934223661
• ISBN13: 9780934223669
• Publish Date: 1 June 2001
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Lehigh University Press
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 342
• Language: English