[PDF] A Genealogical Register Of The Descendants Of The Early Planters Of Sherborn Holliston And Medway Massachusetts eBook

Author : Abner 1793-1865 1n Morse
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,12 MB
Release : 2023-07-18
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ISBN : 9781019561522

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This book provides detailed genealogical information on the families that settled in Sherborn, Holliston, and Medway in Massachusetts in the 17th century. It includes information on births, marriages, and deaths, as well as details on each family's land holdings and occupations. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : David A. Weir
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 26,1 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802813527

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The idea of covenant was at the heart of early New England society. In this singular book David Weir explores the origins and development of covenant thought in America by analyzing the town and church documents written and signed by seventeenth-century New Englanders. Unmatched in the breadth of its scope, this study takes into account all of the surviving covenants in all of the New England colonies. Weir's comprehensive survey of seventeenth-century covenants leads to a more complex picture of early New England than what emerges from looking at only a few famous civil covenants like the Mayflower Compact. His work shows covenant theology being transformed into a covenantal vision for society but also reveals the stress and strains on church-state relationships that eventually led to more secularized colonial governments in eighteenth-century New England. He concludes that New England colonial society was much more "English" and much less "American" than has often been thought, and that the New England colonies substantially mirrored religious and social change in Old England.