Pugnacious Puritans : seventeenth-century Hadley and New England /
This study examines colonial New England and its place in the wider context of British colonialism in North America. The author uses a series of episodes in the history of Hadley, Massachusetts, to analyze the connections between local, regional and imperial levels of politics and religious society.
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Lanham, Maryland :
Lexington Books,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: liberty to inhabit in any part of this jurisdiction already planted: Hadley's beginnings
- Peeping through the crevises of my close cell: the angel of Hadley, William Goffe, in Hadley and Hartford
- A worme at the roote of theocraticall government: Hadley's opposition to the half-way covenant
- A trust committed to us by solemn and solemnly ratified covenant: Governor Edward Hopkins' grammar school at Hadley
- Postscript: declension from the primitive foundation work.