The Standard of Living in Colonial Massachusetts
基于马萨诸塞1650-1753年的遗嘱认证记录，发现农民和农村居民消费品平均价值未下降，与18世纪初马里兰相当，且康涅狄格类似发现表明新英格兰地区无下降趋势。
Based on findings in Massachusetts probate records, 1650–1753, this paper argues that the average value of consumer goods among farmers and other rural inhabitants in that colony did not decline over the course of the colonial period but fluctuated around an average value little different from that for an equivalent segment of the population at risk in Maryland at the turn of the eighteenth century. Similar findings by Jackson Turner Main for.colonial Connecticut extend this absence of trend to a wider area of New England and to the years immediately preceding the American Revolution.