Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town

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Wesleyan University Press, 1970 - History - 215 pages
An award-winning study of Puritans and the formation of their towns.
 

Contents

The Web of Openfield Life
3
Land Hunger Borough Rights and the Power to Tax
21
The Secrets of the Corporation of This Town of Sudbury
41
It Is Ordered by the Court
59
Watertown on the Charles
74
It Is Ordered and Agreed by This Town
80
All Liberties As Other Towns Have
92
We Shall Be Judged by Men of Our Own Choosing
116
Interest in This Town of Marlborough
133
Notes
149
Index
213
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