tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post5528001282681584103..comments2024-03-26T11:33:59.219-06:00Comments on Religion in American History: Puritans, PuritansPaul Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13881964303772343114noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post-55722857173563320192013-05-07T12:16:10.415-06:002013-05-07T12:16:10.415-06:00Dear Jeremy Bangs:
Thanks for taking the time to ...Dear Jeremy Bangs:<br /><br />Thanks for taking the time to read the article and confirm Dunster's near silence in Scituate. I do appreciate that at least he spoke boldly against persecuting the Quakers. There's a nice parallel there.<br /><br />Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14372548161435515544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post-51365343741250904042013-05-06T17:22:03.998-06:002013-05-06T17:22:03.998-06:00Your article on Henry Dunster is clear and informa...Your article on Henry Dunster is clear and informative. Congratulations - Dunster is worthy of your careful attention. <br />There's almost nothing about Dunster in documents from Scituate, other than James Cudworth's comment that Dunster was not among those who persecuted Quakers. Cudworth wrote in December, 1658, "we have as yet amongst us worthy Mr. Dunster, whom the Lord has made boldly to bear testimony against the Spirit of persecution" (in Cudworth's contribution to -The Secret Workes of a Cruel People Made Manifest - (London, 1659), reprinted as appendix 6, in The Seventeenth-Century Town Records of Scituate, Massachusetts, vol. 3 (Boston: NEHGS, 2001), pp. 390-420.<br />Jeremy BangsUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07400715075330658209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post-20617833759450444532013-05-06T07:32:13.890-06:002013-05-06T07:32:13.890-06:00Mark,
Good to hear it!
Let us know how Hall or Bre...Mark,<br />Good to hear it!<br />Let us know how Hall or Bremer work.Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14372548161435515544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post-22883441859847848182013-05-06T07:30:37.681-06:002013-05-06T07:30:37.681-06:00As it so happens, I've been looking for a repl...As it so happens, I've been looking for a replacement book on Puritanism for my colonial America course (Innes's Creating the Commonwealth worked ok but Foster's otherwise brilliant Long Argument was too burdensome). This is a great help, thanks so much!Mark T. Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13687874101232569510noreply@blogger.com