7 High rates of migration in early life explain why so many New Englanders died outside their native towns at the same time that persistence rates on tax lists were very high; cf. John W. Adams and Alice Bee Kasakoff, “Migration and the Family in Colonial New England: The View from Genealogies, ” JFH 9 (1984), 24-43; and “Migration at Marriage in Colonial New England …,” in Bennett Dyke and Warren Morrill, eds., Genealogical Demography (New York, 1980).
8Mass. Bay Records, I, 190.
9 An unanswered question is the similarity of migration in New England and East Anglia. There have been many English studies of internal migration in the east of England, but differences in methods and materials do not permit controlled quantitative comparisons. See John Patten, English Towns, 1500-1700 (Folkestone, Kent, 1978); and “Patterns of Migration and Movement of Labour to Three Pre-industrial East-Anglian Towns,” JHG 2 (1976), 111-29; Peter Clark and Paul Slack, Crisis and Order in English Towns, 1500-1700 (London, 1972); Peter Clark, ed., The Transformation of English Provincial Towns, 1600-1800 (Oxford, 1982).
10 Johnson, Wonder Working Providence, 185.