History of the Counties of Gloucester, Salem, and Cumberland, New Jersey
History of the Counties of Gloucester, Salem, and Cumberland, New Jersey

Author: Thomas Cushing

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-07-23

Total Pages: 1134

ISBN-13: 9780282515850

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Excerpt from History of the Counties of Gloucester, Salem, and Cumberland, New Jersey: With Biographical Sketches of Their Prominent Citizens Acknowledgments are due to the clerks of the counties, and of the boards of freeholders, for access to the records in their offices, and to the editors of journals for the use of their files. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Early New England
Early New England

Author: David A. Weir

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 486

ISBN-13: 9780802813527

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The idea of covenant was at the heart of early New England society. In this singular book David Weir explores the origins and development of covenant thought in America by analyzing the town and church documents written and signed by seventeenth-century New Englanders. Unmatched in the breadth of its scope, this study takes into account all of the surviving covenants in all of the New England colonies. Weir's comprehensive survey of seventeenth-century covenants leads to a more complex picture of early New England than what emerges from looking at only a few famous civil covenants like the Mayflower Compact. His work shows covenant theology being transformed into a covenantal vision for society but also reveals the stress and strains on church-state relationships that eventually led to more secularized colonial governments in eighteenth-century New England. He concludes that New England colonial society was much more "English" and much less "American" than has often been thought, and that the New England colonies substantially mirrored religious and social change in Old England.