The Outward Boundaries of Enough: The Tredwell Family, Ambition, and Risk in the United States and Canada, 1770-1870
Bibliographic record
Abstract
A committed revolutionary, Thomas Tredwell was a member of the government of the rebelling state of New York during the American Revolution, and a member of the United States Congress during the early federal period. A few decades later his grandson, Charles Platt Treadwell, became a county sheriff in Upper Canada, loyally serving for four decades the Crown against which his grandfather had rebelled. The leading men and women of three generations of the Tredwell family between the American Revolution and Canadian Confederation were well-educated and ambitious. They took risks to pursue opportunities for recognition and for riches, and they supported each other and connected with each other through communications and actions built on bonds of affection and economics. Using seven case studies developed from hundreds of letters, land documents, family papers, and other records, and organized around generations of a family rather than a political periodization, this thesis seeks to examine family and family bonds as revealed in words, actions, reactions, and family strategies both within and across generations. It explores the role of formal education as a springboard to enhancing the life chances of succeeding generations, most especially for the women in the family. The thesis considers the use of land and inheritance strategies as tools for binding family together, and appraises the complexities and consequences for individuals and the family of taking substantial economic risk on land in credit-dependent illiquid economies. Finally, it considers the meaning and the impact of international and inter-colonial borders and social boundaries on identity and the pursuit of opportunity.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.047 | 0.016 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".