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Chapter 1
The 17th Century
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the story of an educated, signing, deaf man attempting to emigrate to the colonies in the early 1600s suggests that other deaf people did successfully emigrate from various countries at this time.
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People with disabilities were viewed by the colonists as the “natural concerns of the family, the local community, or the church rather than the state.”
By the mid-seventeenth century, the generally mixed views about people who likely had mental disabilities
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Puritans believed that affliction was a punishment for sins but that didn't stop people from partaking in the community
A marriage between two deaf people occurred in Weymouth, Massachusetts, in 1629
Jonathan Lambert’s life was described as uneventful but he was master of the brigantine Tyral, a slave ship.
As in the colonies, deaf people on Martha’s Vineyard married and raised families.
Many who became deaf in old age also reveal an acceptance of disability in the American colonies during the seventeenth century.
The 18th Century
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Records provide evidence that deaf people headed families, conducted businesses, and participated in religious activity.
The description of the deaf members of the Moore family reveals that deafness was not necessarily an impediment to a full and rewarding life,
the use of signs was accepted by josephs neighbors and that they had learned some to communicate with him.
Gestures and signs used in the various American colonies and the French signs brought to America likely merged with the various existing sign language varieties, especially those brought to school by students.
In 1776, the Pennsylvania Magazine published a manual alphabet referred to as “Dumb Speech” as a means of carrying on a secret conversation.
Seeds VS. Roots
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New England deaf communities
-Henniker, New Hampshire
-Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts
-Sandy River, Maine
examined genetic patterning, language, and marriage practices.
Isolated clusters of deaf people, particularly deaf marriages and deaf families, were the seeds of small communities
since the early 1600s there have been numerous reports of sign language varieties, gestures, and even tactile communication
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Deaf people owned land, married, conducted business, and joined religious organizations during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.