Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1968 Book. As New. Hardcover. Third Printing. 4to. No Dust Jacket, As Issued. xx, 215 pp, preface, introduction, I. The Web of Open-Field Life; II Land, Hunger, Borough Rights, and the Power to Tax; III. The Secrets of the Corporation of This Town of Sudbury; IV. "It Is Ordered by the Court; V. Watertown on the Charles; VI. "It Is Ordered and Agreed by This Town"; VII. "All Liberties As Other Towns Have"; Viii. "We Shall Be Judged by Men of Our Own Choosing"; IX. "interest in This Town of Marlborough"; X. The Origin and Stability of a New England Town; notes, appendices, bibliography, index. Third Printing, September 1986. "This unique book is a study not of the early Massachusetts town but of a town, Sudbury, examined in depth and re-created from a painstaking analysis of its own well-kept records and of the individual English backgrounds of its first settlers." In Pristine Slipcase. Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Black half-cloth with light brown paper-covered boards, with decorative stamped caligraphy on front board, and black and title plate with gilt lettering to spine..

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Bookseller: West Side Book Shop, ABAA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 004628
Title: Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town
Author: Powell, Sumner Chilton
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: New
Edition: Third Printing
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Place of Publication: Middletown, CT
Date Published: 1968
Keywords: U.S. HISTORY 17TH CENTURY NEW ENGLAND SUDBURY FORMATION A PURITAN COMMUNITY
Bookseller catalogs: U. S. HISTORY;
Size: 4to

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