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Societies & Genetic Patterns
Henniker, New Hampshire; Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts; and Sandy River Valley, Maine.
Location, time, language and marriage practice influenced.
A difference in the genetic basis of the Deaf societies in the two locations is responsible for the difference in the emergence of class consciousness.
genetic transmission = dominant and recessive.
If both parents have that gene, then one-quarter of their children will be Deaf, but if only one parent has it, then none of their children will be Deaf, unlike dominant transmission.
Each Deaf person receives a Deaf heritage and may pass it along.
Chilmark, Massachusetts
Mary had eight hearing siblings and one older Deaf sister, Sally, who also attended the American Asylum.
Deaf people on the island had all three of these colonists in their pedigrees.
Mary’s father, Mayhew Smith, was hearing, but her paternal grandfather Elijah Smith, was Deaf and married a hearing woman.
Thomas met Mary Smith, whose family came from the Vineyard.
In 1700, 400 people lived on the Vineyard; population stopped growing about 1800 at some 3,000.
American Asylum was the Deaf community of Martha’s Vineyard.
Most people married someone to whom they were already related and who was from their own village on the island.
Most children born Deaf on the Vineyard had two hearing parents as well as many hear ing siblings.
Henniker, New Hampshire
Nahum was the first, as far as anyone knew, Deaf-Mute in the family.
daughter, Persis, in 1800, and their son, Thomas, in 1804, both Deaf.
American Deaf leader was Thomas Brown.
Nahum saw his son Thomas become educated, among the first Deaf-Mutes in the nation to do so, and emerge as a preeminent Deaf leader.
Thomas Brown enrolled at the American Asylum.
The town of Henniker annually voted funds to assist Thomas in paying his educational expenses until the state legislature undertook to pay for Deaf-Mute pupils from New Hamp shire.
Thomas studied under the founders of American Deaf education, the Deaf Frenchman, Laurent Clerc, and hearing American, Thomas Gallaudet.
William B. Swett and Mary
Deaf son, Thomas Lewis Brown
Hearing daughter, Charlotte= illness took the infant’s life within a year.
William B. Swett and Margaret (Deaf woman)
Three hearing children, two of whom died quite young, and two Deaf daughters, both of whom married Deaf men.
Thirteen Deaf resi dents lived in towns that were contiguous to Henniker or that were one removed, and, including Henniker itself, the total came to twenty-seven.
Sandy River Valley, Maine
Several of the families on Martha’s Vineyard decided to migrate to southeastern Maine.
Intermarriage among the Vineyard families continued on the mainland.