[PDF] Puritan Village eBook

Author : Sumner Chilton Powell
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 47,66 MB
Release : 2019-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0819572683

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Pulitzer Prize Winner: “A meticulous and remarkably detailed account of the early government and social organization of the town of Sudbury, Massachusetts.” —Time In addition to drawing on local records from Sudbury, Massachusetts, the author of this classic work, which won the Pulitzer Prize in History, traced the town’s early families back to England to create an outstanding portrait of a colonial settlement in the seventeenth century. He looks at the various individuals who formed this new society; how institutions and government took shape; what changed—or didn’t—in the movement from the Old World to the New; and how those from different local cultures adjusted, adapted, competed, and cooperated to plant the seeds of what would become, in the century to follow, a commonwealth of the United States of America. “An important and interesting book . . . to the student of institutions, even to the sociologist, as well as to the historian.” —The New England Quarterly

Author : Alden T. Vaughan
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 25,17 MB
Release : 1972
Category : History
ISBN : 9780874518528

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A classic documentary collection on New England's Puritan roots is once again available, with new material.

Author : Herbert C. Parsons
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 919 pages
File Size : 32,99 MB
Release : 2018-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1789120535

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A Puritan Outpost by Herbert C. Parsons, which was originally published in 1937, is the history of Northfield, Massachusetts, “a distinctive New England town, the farthest venture of Puritan pioneering to the west and north in the seventeenth century, which had to be claimed by venturesome settlers three times before its foothold was even relatively secure. Through nearly a century it was exposed to the recurrent assaults and the constant peril of French and Indian invasion, with intermissions when the settlers were dislodged, during one of which it was the thronging seat of the command of the arch-enemy of white occupation, the dubiously crowned King Philip. “Toughened through generations of hardihood, its people developed the sturdy, self-reliant, pious, prudent and independent community, thoroughly characteristic of their unmixed British blood and Puritan heritage. Consistently with such background and distinctly out of such breeding, one of the sons it sent out to varied careers in the world’s affairs came to fame and widespread service as an evangelistic leader and by his hand the added feature was bestowed upon it of being a school and religious centre. “The town’s respect for its historic past has led to the writing of the story.”

Author : Joseph S. Wood
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 38,19 MB
Release : 2002-09-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780801866135

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New England colonists, Wood argues, brought with them a cultural predisposition toward dispersed settlements within agricultural spaces called "towns" and "villages." Rarely compact in form, these communities did, however, encourage individual landholding. By the early nineteenth century, town centers, where meetinghouses stood, began to develop into the center villages we recognize today. Just as rural New England began its economic decline, Wood shows, romantics associated these proto-urban places with idealized colonial village communities as the source of both village form and commercial success.

Author : Paul Boyer
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 15,57 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780674785267

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A study of the Puritan village and the people involved in the witch trials of 1692 provides insight into the causes and implications of this notorious episode in American history.