Main entry:

Powell, Sumner Chilton, 1924- author.

Title & Author:

Puritan village : the formation of a New England town / by Sumner Chilton Powell.

Edition:

[First edition].

Publication:

Middletown, Conneticut : Wesleyan University Press, [1963]

Description:

xx, 215 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-211) and index.
The web of open-field life -- Land hunger, borough rights, and the power to tax -- The secrets of the corporation and this town of Sudbury -- "It is ordered by the court" -- Watertown on the Charles -- "It is ordered and agreed by this town" -- "All liberties as other towns have" -- "We shall be judged by men of our own choosing" -- "Interest in this town of Marlborough" -- The origin and stability of a New England town.
Pulitzer Prize, History, 1964

Resources:
ACLS Humanities E-Book

Subject:

Cities and towns New England History 18th century.
Cities and towns New England History 17th century.
Municipal government Great Britain.
Puritans Massachusetts Sudbury.
Villes Nouvelle-Angleterre Histoire 18e siècle.
Villes Nouvelle-Angleterre Histoire 17e siècle.
Administration municipale Grande-Bretagne.
Puritains Massachusetts Sudbury.
Cities and towns.
Municipal government.
Politics and government
Puritans.
Cities and towns New England History.
Sudbury (Mass.) Politics and government.
Sudbury (Mass.) History.
Great Britain.
Massachusetts Sudbury.
New England.
United States, Massachusetts, Middlesex, Sudbury History.
Sudbury (Mass.) History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 55312
Call No.: ID:90-B3811
Status: Available