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Ms. Voogd's book is a great read. Scholarly and playful. I recommend it to any history buff, quirky intellectual, or small town Pridester. Enjoy!

This is an outstanding book, the introduction by Lois Brown gives one a perfect feel for early 18th Century America during the abolitionist era in afro/american history. Susan Paul has contributed a great memoir on James Jackson who is an exemplary child/scholar. This is true American history,Lois Brown has raised the level African Ameican literature to a higher level with this book. If you truly want to be an educated reader - this book is a must, Once you start reading you can't stop and by the end of the book you will believe that your an scholar on as well on african-american history. A book that everyone should come to love and also spread the word on this magnificent piece of scholarly writing.

This amazing collection of quotations highlights the richness of the literary tradition in the Bay State. Bravo! to Carol Dingle, a proud resident and writer from Massachusetts.

Women's history is so rare for these times - this is a book that all students of religion and women's studies simply must have and read!

Great reference to one of the most scenic trails in New England. Packed with useful information, descriptions of every inch if the trail, in a convenient, thin, lightweight book that slips into your pack, ready for any time you want to check it. Trail maps for the whole length are crisp and easy to follow. A reference you'll refer to until you have it memorized!

Michael N Bastedo has written the defining treatise on this tragically underdiscussed topic in higher education. Anybody who considers him- or herself an expert in the field of higher education policy isn't truly one unless s/he can quote this book with ease. Engaging, thoughtful, challenging, and most of all, readable...all of these things are true of this masterpiece. No higher education library is complete without Dr. Bastedo's work.

I'm an avid book reader, I like mysteries and treasure hunting, and I adored this noval.
John Raleigh Gates is a postrider living during the time of the Revolutionary War. He's been hoping to escape the image of treasure hunting fools that his family has been casting, and wants no part in the family obbsession. And with the Revolutionary War brewing, he's more concerned for the future and not treasure. Soon however, his duties as postrider began to immesh him in a daring hunt for a treasure, one that could help a nation fight for its indpendence.
It's a rather interesting and fun book if you don't mind that.

The service of this publisher is excellent. I highly recommend doing business with them through Ancestry.com, or directly. The book is a delight, although it is a novel, there are some real clues in here about Nantucket Indians, life on Nantucket for the time period etc. - I'm thrilled with it. Order this book if you are looking for stories on the indians, whaling on Nantucket etc.
I purchased it to find out more on my ancestors...

Great FIND.

Also another book is Abram's Eyes, that one too is excellent on the area.

Roger Thompson examines the English genealogies, biographies and careers of a large sample of Puritan colonists. Thompson finds that most Puritans, before leaving Britain, lived, worked and socialized in the same network of communities in which their ancestors had lived for many generations. Even the merchants, the most mobile group Thompson studies, were only incrementally mobile. Over years, or over generations, merchants moved town-by-town, steadily closer to London. Most Puritan colonists, Thompson asserts, would have found the move to another continent a drastic break from both their heritage and their experience.

The examination of callings, both religious and occupational, proves extremely interesting. Thompson shows how these men and women lived in England, and why they finally felt compelled to leave. Details of their lives, both personal and professional, enrich Thompson's study.

The work is a tremendous contribution to our understanding of the Puritans, in both England and America. Thompson offers a work of outstanding skill and readability.

Other works in the same field would be the section on East Anglians relocating to New England in David Hackett Fischer's Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America, and the entirety of D. (David Grayson) Allen's In English Ways: The Movement of Societies and the Transfer of English Local Law and Custom to Massachusetts Bay, 1600-1690. Thompson's work is an invaluable contribution to the study of the transatlantic Puritan community.

I happend to bump into the book by accident. I was doing research into
Edward Bouton, creator of Baltimore's Roland Park. Bouton also doubled as the general manager of the Sage Foundation's Forest Hills Gardens.
This is a great book, meticulously researched. Read it.