First founders : American Puritans and Puritanism in an Atlantic world /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bremer, Francis J.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham, N.H. : University of New Hampshire Press, [2012]
Series:New England in the world.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • John Winthrop and the struggle to lead a godly life
  • John Endecott : godly magistrate
  • John Wilson : Puritan pastor
  • Thomas Dudley and Thomas Shepard : hammers of heretics
  • Dissenting women : Anne Hutchinson, Mary Dyer, Lady Deborah Moody, and Anne Eaton
  • The troubled Keaynes
  • Stephen Winthrop : soldier of the Lord
  • Hugh Peter : regicide
  • John Davenport and the Middle Advent
  • Samuel Winthrop : from Puritan to Quaker
  • John Sassamon : a Puritan between two cultures
  • John Leverett : defending the ways of the fathers
  • Anne Bradstreet : Puritan wife and mother
  • Samuel Sewall : the conscience of a Puritan
  • Conclusion : civil society and the godly kingdom.