Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town

An award-winning study of Puritans and the formation of their towns.



Author: Sumner Chilton Powell
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 12/01/1970
Pages: 255
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.50w x 0.79d
ISBN: 9780819560148

About the Author
SUMNER CHILTON POWELL is a 1946 graduate of Amherst and received a doctorate from Harvard ten years later. A teacher of history on the secondary level (Choate, Bernard School for Boys), he has done much experimental work in tape teaching. This book - his third, but his first for an adult audience - was the culmination of ten years' detective work among local records, archives, and private collections I the U.S. and England. It received the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1964.