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title	:	Puritan Village : The Formation of a New England Town
author	:	Powell, Sumner Chilton.
publisher	:	Wesleyan University Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0819560146
print isbn13	:	9780819560148
ebook isbn13	:	9780585372617
language	:	English
subject	Sudbury (Mass.)--Politics and government, Sudbury (Mass.)--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, Cities and towns--New England--History--18th century, Cities and towns--New England--History--17th century, Municipal government--Great Britain, Puritans--
publication date	:	1963
lcc	:	F74.S94P74 1963eb
ddc	:	974.44
subject	:	Sudbury (Mass.)--Politics and government, Sudbury (Mass.)--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, Cities and towns--New England--History--18th century, Cities and towns--New England--History--17th century, Municipal government--Great Britain, Puritans--

Page v Puritan Village The Formation of a New England Town By Sumner Chilton Powell

Page vi WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PRESS Published by University Press of New England, Hanover, NH 03755 Copyright 1963 by Wesleyan University All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 638862

Page vii In loving memory of my father CHILTON L. POWELL and my grandfather ARTHUR C. POWELL

Page ix Table of Contents Preface xiii Introduction xvii I. The Web of Open-Field Life 3 II. Land Hunger, Borough Rights, and the Power to Tax 21 III. The Secrets of the Corporation of This Town of Sudbury 41 IV. "It Is Ordered by the Court" 59 V. Watertown on the Charles 74 VI. "It Is Ordered and Agreed by This Town" 80 VII. "All Liberties As Other Towns Have" 92 VIII. "We Shall Be Judged by Men of Our Own Choosing" 116 IX. "Interest in This Town of Marlborough" 133 X. The Origin and Stability of a New England Town 139 Notes 149 Appendices 163 Bibliography 195 Index 213

Page xi List of Illustrations 1. Weyhill, Hants, about 1635 2. Ashmore, Dorset 3. Sudbury, Suffolk, 1714 4. Property of Nicholas Danforth and Town of Framlingham, Suffolk 5. Watertown, Massachusetts, and Its Neighbors, about 1638 6. Watertown Center, about 1638 7. The Great Trail and Connecting Pathways 8. English Origins of Emigrants to Sudbury, Massachusetts 9. Sudbury, Massachusetts: The Village Center 10. Town Pound, Sudbury, about 1648 11. Sudbury Town Orders and Town Meetings, 16391656 12. Grants of Land to John Goodnow, Sudbury 13. Edmund Rice's House and Barn, Sudbury 14. Sudbury Land Grants and Population Growth, 16401655 15. Sudbury Taxes, 16401655 16. Sudbury Bridge, 1643 17. First Sudbury Meetinghouse, 1643 18. Second Sudbury Meetinghouse, 1653 19. Sudbury's Two-Mile Grant Lots, 1658 20. John Ruddock's House and Barn, 1661 21. Third Sudbury Meetinghouse, 1688

Page xiii Preface This book is the culmination of a six-year detective hunt among local records, archives, and private collections in England and in Massachusetts. I do not recommend a similar study to any student who has a faint heart, lack of patience, inability to travel, or poor eyesight. Such a study demands the development of various specialized skills. A knowledge of the mysteries of genealogy is essential, and these can be both complex and frustrating. One must also learn about paleography and know how to decipher the different court hands, the shorthand Latin used by clerks, and seventeenth-century handwriting in general. A note of warning: many of the church documents make the formal manorial court rolls look like works of art, as they are. Single pages, or paragraphs of entries, in Church Court Deposition Books or Churchwardens' Accounts have cost me many hours of exasperation, to say nothing of long weeks at the typewriter.

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