Title: Pugnacious Puritans : seventeenth-century Hadley and New England /
Authors: Hammer, Carl I.,
Year: 2018
Subjects: British colonies.; Hadley (Mass.) History; New England History; Great Britain Colonies America History; America; Massachusetts Hadley.; New England
Abstract: "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"--
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.