Remarkable Providences: Readings on Early American HistoryJohn Demos "These documents have been chosen, in every case, for the way they reflect lived experience among average people in our colonial past. There is no real substitute for such primary evidence — no other way to capture the feel of events from day to day, year to year, generation to generation." — from the Preface |
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Page vi
... Thomas Minor , Stonington , Connecticut : Excerpt ( 1672 ) 124 Part Three : Family and Household The Physical Setting An Inventory of the Estate of John Smith , Miller of This Town of Providence , Deceased ( 1682 ) 132 131 14 . 15 . 16 ...
... Thomas Minor , Stonington , Connecticut : Excerpt ( 1672 ) 124 Part Three : Family and Household The Physical Setting An Inventory of the Estate of John Smith , Miller of This Town of Providence , Deceased ( 1682 ) 132 131 14 . 15 . 16 ...
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... Thomas Shepard to His Son at His Admission into the College ( Massachusetts , 1672 ) 151 Advice to My Daughters ( circa 1740 ) -Solomon Williams 157 Petitions of Richard Preston and His Servants to the Provincial Court ( Calvert County ...
... Thomas Shepard to His Son at His Admission into the College ( Massachusetts , 1672 ) 151 Advice to My Daughters ( circa 1740 ) -Solomon Williams 157 Petitions of Richard Preston and His Servants to the Provincial Court ( Calvert County ...
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... Thomas Leeds and William Leeds ( New Jersey , 1736-1737 ) 180 Will of the Reverend John Lawrence ( Virginia , 1684 ) 183 Articles of Agreement between Jared Speck and Thomas Burr ( Connecticut , 1686 ) 185 Death Extract from the Diary ...
... Thomas Leeds and William Leeds ( New Jersey , 1736-1737 ) 180 Will of the Reverend John Lawrence ( Virginia , 1684 ) 183 Articles of Agreement between Jared Speck and Thomas Burr ( Connecticut , 1686 ) 185 Death Extract from the Diary ...
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... Confidence Man 249 Testimony about Thomas Rumsey ( Massachusetts , 1680 ) 250 27 . Order in Human Relationships 252 An Essay against Periwigs - Nicholas Noyes 253 28 . A Sinner Cast Out Proceedings of Excommunication against ix Contents.
... Confidence Man 249 Testimony about Thomas Rumsey ( Massachusetts , 1680 ) 250 27 . Order in Human Relationships 252 An Essay against Periwigs - Nicholas Noyes 253 28 . A Sinner Cast Out Proceedings of Excommunication against ix Contents.
Page x
... at Home 315 Algonquian Indian Village - Theodore DeBry 316 35 . Intermarriage : John Rolfe and Pocahontas 317 Letter of John Rolfe to Sir Thomas Dale ( Virginia , 1614 ) 318 36 . Efforts of a Missionary Statement of the Reverend X Contents.
... at Home 315 Algonquian Indian Village - Theodore DeBry 316 35 . Intermarriage : John Rolfe and Pocahontas 317 Letter of John Rolfe to Sir Thomas Dale ( Virginia , 1614 ) 318 36 . Efforts of a Missionary Statement of the Reverend X Contents.
Contents
Preface to the Revised Edition | xiii |
A Rationale for Migration 3 | xlii |
Passengers to the New World | 12 |
A Checklist | 18 |
Blueprint for a New England Community | 30 |
The Trials of a Leader | 35 |
Two Letters Home | 46 |
The Early Days Remembered | 54 |
College Life and Social Place | 245 |
Order in Human Relationships | 252 |
A Sinner Cast Out | 262 |
Confrontation Politics Colonial Style | 283 |
The Militia in Training | 290 |
The Problem of Slavery | 299 |
Noble Savage? | 313 |
Efforts of a Missionary | 323 |
A Marblehead Clergyman | 70 |
A Virginia Minister | 103 |
A Connecticut Farmer | 123 |
The Physical Setting | 131 |
A Household Budget | 143 |
Petitions of Richard Preston and His Servants | 159 |
The Elderly | 180 |
Death | 187 |
Inheritance | 198 |
The Passage of Generations | 210 |
A Social Contract | 229 |
The Spatial Dimension | 239 |
The Process of Negotiation | 336 |
War and Captivity | 344 |
How to Fight Savages | 372 |
Ways and Means of Agriculture | 379 |
Problems of Travel and Transport | 388 |
Some New World Variants | 404 |
Images of Another World | 413 |
A Case of Diabolical Possession | 421 |
Defense against Evil | 437 |
A Range of Remarkables | 447 |
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