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Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town
Author:Sumner Chilton Powell
Country:United States
Language:English
Genre:Non-fiction
Publisher:Wesleyan University Press
Release Date:1963
Pages:215

Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town is a nonfiction history book by American historian Sumner Chilton Powell published in 1963 by Wesleyan University Press, which won the 1964 Pulitzer Prize for History.[1] [2] [3] [4] It minutely examines the records of Sudbury, Massachusetts from 1638-1660 to show how the town developed mainly from emigrants from Watertown, Massachusetts, tracing every settler back to England, concluding that there were no typical "English" towns and no typical "Puritans".

Notes and References

  1. Book: Elizabeth A. Brennan. Elizabeth C. Clarage. Who's Who of Pulitzer Prize Winners. 1999. Greenwood Publishing Group. 978-1-57356-111-2. 303–.
  2. Book: Sumner Chilton Powell. Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town. 1 May 2011. Wesleyan University Press. 978-0-8195-7268-4.
  3. Web site: Pulitzer Prize 1964 Winners . The Pulitzer Prizes . www.pulitzer.org . 14 April 2015.
  4. Reviewed Work: Puritan Village, the Formation of a New England Town by Sumner Chilton Powell . Peter Laslett . The New England Quarterly . 36 . 4 . December 1963 . 546–548 . 10.2307/363122 . 363122 .

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