Author | Sumner Chilton Powell |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Non-fiction |
Publisher | Wesleyan University Press |
Publication 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".