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Abandoning America brings together the biographies of hundreds of people who crossed over to New England in the 1630s but later braved the Atlantic again to return home. Some wentback quickly, disenchanted or discouraged. Many invested everything to make New England a success, yet after ten or twenty years resolved to leave America - against a backdrop of civil war and Cromwells commonwealth in England, and personal dilemmas about family ties, health and prospects. The book retrieves their forgotten life-stories from thousands of scattered fragments of evidence in early New England records and British archives, often starting fromsome incidental, passing, reference. The result of this scholarly detective work is a remarkable and evocative collection of personal histories, of people overlooked in the onward march of American history. Their anxieties and aspirations speak eloquently about the experience of being a New Englander, for those who stayed on as well as for those who left.
The book traces settlers lives with an eye to the information historians look for. It is a richoriginal resource for scholars of early America and the English Revolution - for research on religion in England and New England, Atlantic migration, and much more.

SUSAN HARDMAN MOORE is Professor of Early Modern Religion at the University of Edinburgh.

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Abandoning America
Life-stories from early New England
Selected as a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of 2014.
Abandoning America brings together the biographies of hundreds of people who crossed over to New England in the 1630s but later braved the Atlantic again to return home. Some went back quickly, disenchanted or discouraged. Many invested everything to make New England a success, yet after ten or twenty years resolved to leave America against a backdrop of civil war and Cromwells commonwealth in England, and personal dilemmas about family ties, health and prospects. The book retrieves their forgotten life-stories from thousands of scattered fragments of evidence in early New England records and British archives, often starting from some incidental, passing, reference. The result of this scholarly detective work is a remarkable and evocative collection of personal histories, of people overlooked in the onward march of American history. Their anxieties and aspirations speak eloquently about the experience of being a New Englander, for those who stayed on as well as for those who left.
The book traces settlers lives with an eye to the information historians look for. It is a rich original resource for scholars of early America and the English Revolution for research on religion in England and New England, Atlantic migration, and much more.
Susan Hardman Moore is from the School of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh.
Richly documented, the volume will serve as a valuable resource for students of Anglo-American religious and cultural history.... A broader...audience is likely to be attracted to it by fascinating insights into the world of values, feelings, dilemmas and the vicissitudes of very real people living unusual lives almost four hundred years ago. For all those reasons, Abandoning America deserves a place on reference shelves of academic, school and public libraries. POLISH J0URNAL FOR AMERICAN STUDIES.
Mining Mores carefully culled subset of settlers abandoning America will doubtless result in unexpected delights. NEW ENGLAND QUARTERLY.
A seminal and exceptional reference.... Highly recommended. CHOICE.
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Acknowledgements
The research for this book started long ago, under the guidance of the late Patrick Collinson. His approach to the history of early modern religion remains an inspiration.
Michael Middeke, Editorial Director of Modern History and Music at Boydell & Brewer, gave generous backing to this project and has seen it into print. I thank him, and others at Boydell & Brewer especially Megan Milan, and Rohais Haughton, Production Editor for all their care and professionalism.
Many libraries and archives, on the eastern seaboard of the United States and in Britain, have provided resources and a friendly environment for research. In particular, my thanks are due to Dr Williamss Library in London, and to New College Library and the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh.
I am grateful to Yale University Press for permission to draw, in the Introduction and in the reproduction of a modern map, on Susan Hardman Moore, Pilgrims: New World settlers and the call of home (New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press). Copyright 2007 Susan Hardman Moore. I am also grateful to the Huntingdon Library in California for permission to produce a map from William Woods New Englands prospect (1634), and to the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, for allowing the use of Willem van de Velde, Vessels in a harbour, for the cover illustration.
On the way to completing this work, my friends Sara Trist, and Iain and Irene Cormack, have tirelessly cheered me on. My memories of visits to New England are warmly coloured by the hospitality and friendship of Harriet Spear and the late Leonard Spear, and of Ruth Drews and Dean Peckham. Last but not least, my family patiently allowed me innumerable hours, desk-bound, to finish the book. It is dedicated to John: he knows why.
Susan Hardman Moore
University of Edinburgh
February 2013
Abbreviations
AAS
American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts.
Al. Cant.
Alumni Cantabrigienses, comp. J. Venn and J.A. Venn. Part I: from the earliest times to 1791 (4 vols). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 19227. Online at http://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk.
Al. Oxon.
Alumni Oxonienses, ed. J. Foster (4 vols). Oxford and London: Parker & Co., 18912. Online at http://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.aspx?pubid=1270.
ANB
American National Biography (24 vols). Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. ANB Online at http://www.anb.org, 2005.
Artillery Company
O.A. Roberts, History of the honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts, 16371888 (4 vols). Boston, MA: A. Mudge & Son, 18951901. Volume 1, 16371738.
Aspinwall
A volume relating to the early history of Boston, containing the Aspinwall Notarial Records from 1644 to 1651. Boston, MA: Report of the Record Commissioners, 32, Municipal Printing Office, 1903.
BDBR
Biographical dictionary of British radicals in the seventeenth century, eds R.L. Greaves and R. Zaller (3 vols). Brighton: Harvester Press, 19814.
BL
British Library, London.
Bodleian
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.
Boston CR
The records of the First Church in Boston 16301868, I, ed. Richard D. Pierce. Boston, MA: Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Publications, 39, 1961.
BPL
Boston Public Library, Rare Books and Manuscripts Department.
Bush
The correspondence of John Cotton, ed. Sargent Bush Jr. Chapel Hill, NC and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.
Cambridge TR
City Clerks Office, City Hall, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Cambridge Town Records, 16321703 (transcript).
Canterbury CB
Cathedral Archives and Library, Canterbury, CCA-U37/1, Register, Minute and Account Book of Canterbury Congregational Church, 16451715.
CC
Colonial collegians: biographies of those who attended American colleges before the War for Independence, ed. Conrad Edick Wright. Boston, MA: Massachusetts Historical Society and New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2005. Electronic resource: CD-ROM. Online at http://www.americanancestors.org.
CCEd
Clergy of the Church of England Database. http://www.theclergydatabase.org.uk/index.html.
Charlestown CR
The first record-book of the First Church in Charlestown, Massachusetts, ed. J.F. Hunnewell, NEHGR 23: 18791, 27984; 24: 911; 25: 14750, 33944.
Cockermouth CB
Cumbria Record Office and Local Studies Library, Whitehaven. MS YDFCCL 3/1, The Register of Cockermouth Congregational Church, 16511771. [References are to the recent printed edition by R.B. Wordsworth,
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