First founders [electronic resource] : American Puritans and Puritanism in an Atlantic world / Francis J. Bremer.

Includes index.

Preface -- Introduction -- John Winthrop and the struggle to lead a godly life -- John Endecott : godly magistrate -- John Wilson : Puritan pastor -- Thomas Dudley and Thomas Shepard : hammers of heretics -- Dissenting women : Anne Hutchinson, Mary Dyer, Lady Deborah Moody, and Anne Eaton -- The troubled Keaynes -- Stephen Winthrop : soldier of the Lord -- Hugh Peter : regicide -- John Davenport and the Middle Advent -- Samuel Winthrop : from Puritan to Quaker -- John Sassamon : a Puritan between two cultures -- John Leverett : defending the ways of the fathers -- Anne Bradstreet : Puritan wife and mother -- Samuel Sewall : the conscience of a Puritan -- Conclusion : civil society and the godly kingdom.

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