The influence of social history plays a very big role in political history. In Robert Gross’s Minutemen and Their World book, he provided many details of the life of regular town’s people before, during and after the American Revolution. He describes the experiences of the people in Concord during the 1970’s by analyzing a wide range of documents and records like legal papers, diaries, even written prayers and other papers that recaptured the history of the way people lived in the past. Gross introduced the assembly of the Minutemen in his book and expressed how it was like to be a part of an assemblage that involved family members and stated that they “made an intricate genealogical chart.” (Gross 71). Gross’s style of using social history illustrated how liberty became very important to the people of Concord. The people had problems with their own family, wealth, religion, economy and unity during the revolution. This event transformed the people of Concord, and steered a great influence in the society today.
According to Gross, the people in Concord before the revolution were living separately as one town with local problems including locations of public establishments, choosing leadership and religious unity. He stated the people of concord “were more concerned over their roads and …show more content…
The Brown Family was not as wealthy as the Barrett family. Purchase Brown being the eldest was working hard for his very large family, comes to a realization the he has to look out after his own future. He bought his own frontier land not only it was cheap but it is also because Concord was becoming very crowded and weary. Purchase Brown bought a cheap frontier land also for the security in the future. Unlike his relative Ezekiel Brown who didn’t own any land, spent most of his time in jail because of debt. “Powerful emotions as well as economic calculations underlay the contest between fathers and sons.” (Gross,