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

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.

PrefaceIntroductionThe Web of Open-field lifeLand, Hunger, Borough Rights, and the Power to TaxThe Secrets of the Corporation of This Town of Sudbury" It Is Ordered by the CourtWatertown on the CharlesIt Is Ordered and Agreed by This TownAll Civil Liberties As Other Towns Have We Shall Be Judged by Men of Our Own ChoosingInterest in This Town of MarlboroughThe Origin and Stability of a New England TownNotesAppendicesBibliographyIndex