Enemies of the Bay Colony
By: Philip Ranlet.
Series: American university studies.; v. 157
Publisher: P. Lang; Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
Subjects: Massachusetts -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Biography.
Description: Enemies of the Bay Colony is a re-evaluation of the following foes of the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony: Thomas Morton of Merry Mount, who erected a maypole; Samuel Maverick, an enemy of Puritan intolerance; Anne Hutchinson, who sparked the Antinomian crisis; the important Indian leader, King Philip; Sir Edmund Andros, the governor of the hated Dominion of New England; Joseph Dudley, a supporter of royal government; and Benjamin Colman, the minister of the reform-minded Brattle Street Church.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-324) and index.