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Historians Have Commonly Characterized Puritan Family Life As Joyless, Repressive, Even Brutal. By Such Accounts, Puritan Parents Disciplined Their Children Needlessly, Crushed Their Wills, Responded Callously To Their Deaths, And Routinely Sent Them Out Of The Home To Be Raised By Cold-hearted Surrogates. The Diary Of Prominent Boston Jurist And Merchant Samuel Sewall (1651-1730) Contradicts This Grim Portrait Of The Puritan Household, Depicting Instead A Nurturing And Caring Place For Child-rearing. Although Sewall Was An Exceptional Puritan Father And Not A Representative One, His Judicial, Civic, Religious, And Business Activities Projected Him Far Beyond His Own Privileged And Respectable Cicumstances. As A Record Of The Family And Social Life Of New England's Third Generation, His Remarkable Journal, Which Spans Fifty-five Years, Is Rivaled Only By That Of His Friend Cotton Mather. Sewall Provides Rich Details About The Home Where His And Hannah Sewall's Fourteen Children Were Born, And The Six Who Survived Infancy Were Raised. He Takes The Reader Through The Streets And Byways Of Boston, To The Meetinghouse, To The Places Where His Children Were Educated And Apprenticed, And

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Author

Graham, Judith S., 1945-

Publisher

Boston: Northeastern University Press

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9781555535933

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, Historical Fiction, Memoir

Rating

3.57 / 5 (14 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14