Puritan Family Life

Puritan Family Life

Author: Judith S. Graham

Publisher: UPNE

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 9781555535933

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The diary of a prominent Boston jurist and merchant whose nurturing relationship with his family contradicted the Puritan stereotype.


Puritan Family

Puritan Family

Author: Edmund S. Morgan

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 1966-01-01

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 0061312274

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The Puritans came to New England not merely to save their souls but to establish a "visible" kingdom of God, a society where outward conduct would be according to God's laws. This book discusses the desire of the Puritans to be socially virtuous and their wish to force social virtue upon others.


Under Household Government

Under Household Government

Author: M. Michelle Jarrett Morris

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2013-01-07

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780674066335

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Seventeenth-century New Englanders were not as busy policing their neighbors’ behavior as Nathaniel Hawthorne or many historians of early America would have us believe. Keeping their own households in line occupied too much of their time. Under Household Government reveals the extent to which family members took on the role of watchdog in matters of sexual indiscretion. In a society where one’s sister’s husband’s brother’s wife was referred to as “sister,” kinship networks could be immense. When out-of-wedlock pregnancies, paternity suits, and infidelity resulted in legal cases, courtrooms became battlegrounds for warring clans. Families flooded the courts with testimony, sometimes resorting to slander and jury-tampering to defend their kin. Even slaves merited defense as household members—and as valuable property. Servants, on the other hand, could expect to be cast out and left to fend for themselves. As she elaborates the ways family policing undermined the administration of justice, M. Michelle Jarrett Morris shows how ordinary colonists understood sexual, marital, and familial relationships. Long-buried tales are resurrected here, such as that of Thomas Wilkinson’s (unsuccessful) attempt to exchange cheese for sex with Mary Toothaker, and the discovery of a headless baby along the shore of Boston’s Mill Pond. The Puritans that we meet in Morris’s account are not the cardboard caricatures of myth, but are rendered with both skill and sensitivity. Their stories of love, sex, and betrayal allow us to understand anew the depth and complexity of family life in early New England.


The Puritan Family

The Puritan Family

Author: Edmund S. Morgan

Publisher: Ravenio Books

Published:

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13:

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In this insightful exploration of early American family life, renowned historian Edmund S. Morgan reveals the complex dynamics and values that shaped Puritan households in colonial New England. The Puritan Family offers a fascinating glimpse into the intimate world of these early settlers, shedding light on their religious beliefs, gender roles, child-rearing practices, and the broader social structure of their communities. Through meticulous research and engaging prose, Morgan challenges preconceived notions and provides a nuanced understanding of the Puritan family's influence on the development of American society.


The Puritan Family

The Puritan Family

Author: Levin L. Schücking

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-11-05

Total Pages: 183

ISBN-13: 1000226182

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Originally published in 1969, this study examines the religious and ethical community which had an immense influence on the spiritual development of the Anglo-American world – the family in Puritan England. The book makes extensive reference to the outstanding literary works of the period and to the Puritan ‘conduct-books’, thus illustrating the Puritan way of thinking and attitude to life and showing the relationship between the development of literary taste and the social class system.


A Little Commonwealth

A Little Commonwealth

Author: John Demos

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780195128901

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This text examines the family in the context of the colony founded by the Pilgrims who came over on the Mayflower. Demos portrays the family as a structure of roles and relationships of man and wife, parent and child and master and servant.


Puritan Village

Puritan Village

Author: Sumner Chilton Powell

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

Published: 2019-02-12

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 0819572683

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Pulitzer Prize Winner: “A meticulous and remarkably detailed account of the early government and social organization of the town of Sudbury, Massachusetts.” —Time In addition to drawing on local records from Sudbury, Massachusetts, the author of this classic work, which won the Pulitzer Prize in History, traced the town’s early families back to England to create an outstanding portrait of a colonial settlement in the seventeenth century. He looks at the various individuals who formed this new society; how institutions and government took shape; what changed—or didn’t—in the movement from the Old World to the New; and how those from different local cultures adjusted, adapted, competed, and cooperated to plant the seeds of what would become, in the century to follow, a commonwealth of the United States of America. “An important and interesting book . . . to the student of institutions, even to the sociologist, as well as to the historian.” —The New England Quarterly


Building a Godly Home, Vol. 3

Building a Godly Home, Vol. 3

Author: William Gouge

Publisher: Reformation Heritage Books

Published: 2014-10-23

Total Pages: 155

ISBN-13: 1601782519

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For years, William Gouge’s Domestical Duties has stood as the foremost Puritan treatment of Christian family life. Yet due to its size and antiquated expression, it has become almost unknown among current generations of believers. To help revive the usefulness of this classic book, Scott Brown and Joel R. Beeke divided Gouge’s work into three manageable volumes, updated the language to modern standards, and have given it the title Building a Godly Home. In the third volume, A Holy Vision for Raising Children , Gouge offers wise and practical advice to both children and parents on how to relate to each other with love and honor. Drawing from a wealth of biblical principles and examples, he fleshes out how a household of affectionate authority provides for children and prepares them to live as God’s servants in the world. Fathers, mothers, sons, and daughters will find much here to challenge and guide them.


Family Worship

Family Worship

Author: Joel R. Beeke

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781601780584

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Dr. Beeke offers a heartfelt and solemn plea for families to return to Biblical, consistent and passionate family worship. With pastoral insight and care the author provides practical and valuable answers to the practice of family worship and at the same time addresses objections raised against it. In a world of impossible standards and idealism, this book is a helpful and motivating guide to implement or increase the depth of your family devotions. Author Joel R. Beeke (Ph.D. Westminster Theological Seminary) is president and professor of systematic theology and homiletics at Puritan Reformed Theological Serminary, pastor of the Heritage Netherlands Reformed Congregation in Grand Rapids, Michigan, editor of The Banner of Sovereign Grace Truth, and author of numerous books.


The Puritans

The Puritans

Author: Jack Cavanaugh

Publisher: Victor Books

Published: 1994-04-01

Total Pages: 513

ISBN-13: 9781564764409

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Drew Morgan, a young Englishman, dreams of being a knight, but finds love and faith in the New World.