Through analyses of the process of migration and settlement and of the symbolic meaning that participants attached to their experiences, the book tells the story of New England's origins as one of dynamism and change. Focusing on the lives of nearly 700 emigrants, the narrative examines such topics as the settlers' motives for leaving England, their experience of the voyage, their patterns of settlement in the New World, and their search for economic security in a new land. The descendants of the founders erected the story of their "great" migration into early British America's only effective foundation myth--a record of achievement that succeeding generations could never match. Rich in detail and insight, this exploration of New England's founding examines both the lives of ordinary people and the transcendent meanings that those lives ultimately acquired.
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"As the title suggests, this is a scholarly book, yet there's much here to interest general readers of American history. Anderson's mission is to examine the reasons for the stability of early New England." Providence Journal
"Historian Virginia DeJohn Anderson studied 693 settlers who came here on seven ships between 1635 and 1638... in careful prose, Anderson refracts their psychological makeup in a way that makes them understandable to us." The Boston Globe
"...besides being beautifully written, the book is both original and highly useful in linking so many issues so intelligently through collective biography....It is an apt depiction of the socioeconomic context within which much of the cultural and intellectual drama of New England was played." Richard P. Gildrie, William and Mary Quarterly
"Historian Virginia DeJohn Anderson studied 693 settlers who came here on seven ships between 1635 and 1638... in careful prose, Anderson refracts their psychological makeup in a way that makes them understandable to us." The Boston Globe
"...besides being beautifully written, the book is both original and highly useful in linking so many issues so intelligently through collective biography....It is an apt depiction of the socioeconomic context within which much of the cultural and intellectual drama of New England was played." Richard P. Gildrie, William and Mary Quarterly
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Focusing on the lives of nearly 700 emigrants, through analyses of the process of migration and settlement and of the symbolic meaning that participants attached to their experiences, this study tells the story of New England's origins as one of dynamism and change.
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This book was a fascinating exposure of the "Great Migration", as it has been called, the New England immigration, that lastest less than 10 years, from 1630 to 1640. This migration was "great" in the minds of the people who made the journey, even though it was the smaller in duration and numbers of people, than any other region of American colonization. It was "great" in their minds because of the religious motivations. The follows the immigrants from the decision to immigrate, the trip over, settling in the new country, and continues on to the the second generation and the desire of the first generation to impress on them the values that they had come over with. The book is a fascinating look at what life was like for these early immigrants, illustrated with real life people, including a few of my ancestors. The book is well documented with a combination of historical and genealogical sources. The book is engaging and extremely well written.
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Great historical analysis of Puritan migration to New England,
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I found this to be excellent background material to read while working on my family genealogy of this period. It gave a third dimension to my understanding of who these people were and what they sought in the New World.
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"Even as they boarded the ship Hercules in the spring of 1635, Nathaniel and Lydia Tilden could not have expected to live long in New England." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
adult male emigrants, emigrant artisans, proprietary privileges, emigrant population, probate records, prospective colonists, town proprietors, emigrant families, prospective emigrants, colony leaders, prospective settlers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New England, New York, Great Migration, New World, John Winthrop, Bay Colony, Edward Johnson, Francis Higginson, New-Englands Plantation, Chapel Hill, New Haven, Winthrop Papers, Four Generations, Bay Recs, Journal of Richard Mather, Deep Furrow, Plymouth Colony, Great Yarmouth, Massachusetts Bay Company, Wonder-Working Providence, Account of Two Voyages, Comfort Starr, Early America, Nicholas Busby, Pioneers of Massachusetts New!
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"Even as they boarded the ship Hercules in the spring of 1635, Nathaniel and Lydia Tilden could not have expected to live long in New England." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
adult male emigrants, emigrant artisans, proprietary privileges, emigrant population, probate records, prospective colonists, town proprietors, emigrant families, prospective emigrants, colony leaders, prospective settlers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New England, New York, Great Migration, New World, John Winthrop, Bay Colony, Edward Johnson, Francis Higginson, New-Englands Plantation, Chapel Hill, New Haven, Winthrop Papers, Four Generations, Bay Recs, Journal of Richard Mather, Deep Furrow, Plymouth Colony, Great Yarmouth, Massachusetts Bay Company, Wonder-Working Providence, Account of Two Voyages, Comfort Starr, Early America, Nicholas Busby, Pioneers of Massachusetts New!
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- Four Generations: Population, Land and Family in Colonial Andover, Massachusetts by Philip Greven on 14 pages
- The Pioneers of Massachusetts, A Descriptive List, Drawn from Records of the Colonies, Towns, and Churches, and Other Contemporaneous Documents by Charles Henry Pope on 8 pages
- Tracts And Other Papers (3 Volumes) (Notable American Authors) by Peter Force on 8 pages
- Prince Valiant, Vol. 12: The New World by Harold Foster on 7 pages
- In English Ways: The Movement of Societies and the Transferal of English Local Law and Custom to Massachusetts Bay in the Seventeenth Century by David Grayson Allen on 6 pages
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- Farmers and Fishermen: Two Centuries of Work in Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630-1850 by Daniel Vickers on 4 pages
- In Public Houses: Drink and the Revolution of Authority in Colonial Massachusetts by David W. Conroy on page 32, page 96, and Back Matter
- From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers by Allan Kulikoff in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas by David Eltis on page 104, and Back Matter
- Being Good: Women's Moral Values in Early America by Martha Saxton in Back Matter
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