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Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town
Pulitzer Prize in History 1964
Author Sumner Chilton Powell
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Genre Non-fiction
Publisher Wesleyan University Press
Publication date
1963
Pages215

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".

References

  1. ^ Elizabeth A. Brennan; Elizabeth C. Clarage (1999). Who's Who of Pulitzer Prize Winners. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 303–. ISBN  978-1-57356-111-2.
  2. ^ Sumner Chilton Powell (1 May 2011). Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town. Wesleyan University Press. ISBN  978-0-8195-7268-4.
  3. ^ "Pulitzer Prize 1964 Winners". www.pulitzer.org. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 14 April 2015.
  4. ^ Peter Laslett (December 1963). "Reviewed Work: Puritan Village, the Formation of a New England Town by Sumner Chilton Powell". The New England Quarterly. 36 (4): 546–548. doi: 10.2307/363122. JSTOR  363122.