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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.
This book describes how the mercantile system was made to work as London established itself as the capital of the Atlantic empire.
A Puritan Family's Journey: From Hingham to Hingham and onto Sanbornton, New Hampshire is the story of the ancestors of Marion Gilman Elliott. The story begins with the 9th century tale of Cilman-Troed-Dhu or Cilman, the Knight of the black leg that forms the basis of the Gilman family crest. The story continues with the Puritan migration of the citizens of Hingham, England who left as part of the great migration in 1638 to settle in Hingham, Massachusetts. The Gilmans moved the Exeter, New Hampshire in 1647. The Gilmans were major leaders in colonial New Hampshire. Any history of New Hampshire tells of the importance of the family in the history of the state.