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Published: 1928-01-01
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780940748743
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Records Of The Particular Court Of Connecticut 1639-1663
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Published: 2021-04-06
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9789354508233
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRecords Of The Particular Court Of Connecticut 1639-1663 has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
Records of the Particular Court of Connecticut, 1639-1663
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Published: 1928
Total Pages: 332
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKEntertaining Satan
Author: John Putnam Demos
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2004-10-14
Total Pages: 560
ISBN-13: 0199884064
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the first edition of the Bancroft Prize-winning Entertaining Satan, John Putnam Demos presented an entirely new perspective on American witchcraft. By investigating the surviving historical documents of over a hundred actual witchcraft cases, he vividly recreated the world of New England during the witchcraft trials and brought to light fascinating information on the role of witchcraft in early American culture. Now Demos has revisited his original work and updated it to illustrate why these early Americans' strange views on witchcraft still matter to us today. He provides a new preface that puts forth a broader overview of witchcraft and looks at its place around the world--from ancient times right up to the present.
Descendants of Gov. Thomas Welles of Connecticut, Volume 1, 2nd Edition
Author: Barbara Jean Mathews
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 664
ISBN-13: 130448615X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Descendants of Governor Thomas Welles of Connecticut and his Wife Alice Tomes, Volume 2, Part A
Author: Barbara Jean Mathews
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2015-02-03
Total Pages: 612
ISBN-13: 1312890088
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThomas Welles (ca. 1590-1660), son of Robert and Alice Welles, was born in Stourton, Whichford, Warwickshire, England, and died in Wethersfield, Connecticut. He married (1) Alice Tomes (b. before 1593), daughter of John Tomes and Ellen (Gunne) Phelps, 1615 in Long Marston, Gloucestershire. She was born in Long Marston, and died before 1646 in Hartford, Connecticut. They had eight children. He married (2) Elizabeth (Deming) Foote (ca. 1595-1683) ca. 1646. She was the widow of Nathaniel Foote and the sister of John Deming. She had seven children from her previous marriage.
The Descendants of Governor Thomas Welles of Connecticut and his Wife Alice Tomes, Volume 3, Part A
Author: Kathryn Smith Black
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2015-11-05
Total Pages: 648
ISBN-13: 1329670175
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThomas Welles (ca. 1590-1660), son of Robert and Alice Welles, was born in Stourton, Whichford, Warwickshire, England, and died in Wethersfield, Connecticut. He married (1) Alice Tomes (b. before 1593), daughter of John Tomes and Ellen (Gunne) Phelps, 1615 in Long Marston, Gloucestershire. She was born in Long Marston, and died before 1646 in Hartford, Connecticut. They had eight children. He married (2) Elizabeth (Deming) Foote (ca. 1595-1683) ca. 1646. She was the widow of Nathaniel Foote and the sister of John Deming. She had seven children from her previous marriage.
Criminal Justice in Colonial America, 1606-1660
Author: Bradley Chapin
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2010-06-01
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 0820336912
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study analyzes the development of criminal law during the first several generations of American life. Its comparison of the substantive and procedural law among the colonies reveals the similarities and differences between the New England and the Chesapeake colonies. Bradley Chapin addresses the often-debated question of the “reception” of English law and makes estimates of the relative weight of the sources and methods of early American law. A main theme of his book is that colonial legislators and judges achieved a significant reform of the English criminal law at a time when a parallel movement in England failed. The analysis is made specific and concrete by statistics that show patterns of prosecutions and crime rates. In addition to the exciting and convincing theme of a “lost period” of great creativity in American criminal law, Chapin gives a wealth of detail on statutory and common-law rulings, noteworthy criminal cases, and judicial views of how the law was to be administered. He provides social and economic explanations of shifts and peculiarities in the law, using carefully arranged evidence from the records. His treatment of the Quaker cases in Massachusetts and the witchcraft prosecutions in New England throws new light on those frequently misunderstood episodes. Chapin's book will be of interest not only to scholars working in the field but also to anyone curious about early American legal history.
Law and Religion in Colonial America
Author: Scott Douglas Gerber
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-07-31
Total Pages: 363
ISBN-13: 1009289071
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLaw – charters, statutes, judicial decisions, and traditions – mattered in colonial America, and laws about religion mattered a lot. The legal history of colonial America reveals that America has been devoted to the free exercise of religion since well before the First Amendment was ratified. Indeed, the two colonies originally most opposed to religious liberty for anyone who did not share their views, Connecticut and Massachusetts, eventually became bastions of it. By focusing on law, Scott Douglas Gerber offers new insights about each of the five English American colonies founded for religious reasons – Maryland, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Massachusetts – and challenges the conventional view that colonial America had a unified religious history.
Major-General Hezekiah Haynes and the Failure of Oliver Cromwell’s Godly Revolution, 1594–1704
Author: David Farr
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-05-27
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 1000078833
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHezekiah Haynes was shaped by the Puritanism of his father’s network and experienced emigration to New England as part of a community removing themselves from Charles I’s Laudianism. Returning to fight in the British Civil Wars, Haynes rose to become Cromwell’s ruler of the east of England, tasked with bringing about a godly revolution, and in rising to prominence he became the centre of his own developing political and religious network, which included a kin link to Cromwell himself. As one of Cromwell’s Major-Generals Haynes was tasked with security and a reformation of manners, but he was hampered by the limits of the early modern state and Cromwell’s own contradictory political and religious ideas. The Restoration saw Haynes imprisoned in the Tower before emerging to return to the community in which he had been raised, and continuing the links with some of those he had worked with for Cromwell and the kin he had left behind in New England in dealing with the norms of early modern life. This book will appeal to specialists in the area and students taking courses on early modern English and American history, as well as those with a more general interest in the period.
