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- catalog abstract ""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 to the homes of friends, neighbors, and kin." "Judith S. Graham's close reading of Sewall's diary and family papers reveals that warmth, sympathy, and love often marked the Puritan parent-child relationship. She suggests that the special nature of childhood was a concept that parents understood well, and that there was a practical and clear purpose for the "putting out" of children. Graham provides a balance to accepted scholarship on Puritan life and offers new insights into the history of both early New England and the family."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11520247.
- catalog coverage "New England Social life and customs To 1775.".
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""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 to the homes of friends, neighbors, and kin."".
- catalog description ""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."".
- catalog description ""Judith S. Graham's close reading of Sewall's diary and family papers reveals that warmth, sympathy, and love often marked the Puritan parent-child relationship. She suggests that the special nature of childhood was a concept that parents understood well, and that there was a practical and clear purpose for the "putting out" of children. Graham provides a balance to accepted scholarship on Puritan life and offers new insights into the history of both early New England and the family."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "ch. 1. "My comfort and defense": the marriage of Hannah Hull and Samuel Sewall -- ch. 2. "Herein is my Father glorified": birth -- ch. 3. "The sorrowfull remembrance of Adam's carriage": child-rearing -- ch. 4. "A red coat for her little Aaron": children as "miniature adults" -- ch. 5. "Give her a lift towards heaven": the illness and death of children -- ch. 6. "Your son is now one of us": education -- ch. 7. "A trade that might be good for soul and body": the calling -- ch. 8. "No man came with him to me": children taken into the Sewall home -- ch. 9. "Hopes by going to sea after his time is out, may get a livelihood": sending out and taking in -- ch. 10. "A stone-ring and a fan with a noble letter to my daughter": courtship and marriage -- ch. 11. "Govr Dudley mention'd Christ's pardoning Mary Magdalen": the relationship between the generations -- ch. 12. "The fruit of the womb is a reward": conclusion.".
- catalog extent "xii, 283 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Puritan family life.".
- catalog identifier "1555534457 (cl : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Puritan family life.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Boston : Northeastern University Press,".
- catalog relation "Puritan family life.".
- catalog spatial "New England Social life and customs To 1775.".
- catalog spatial "New England".
- catalog spatial "New England.".
- catalog subject "974/.008825 21".
- catalog subject "Child rearing New England History.".
- catalog subject "F7 .G73 2000".
- catalog subject "Families New England History".
- catalog subject "Puritans New England Diaries.".
- catalog subject "Puritans New England.".
- catalog subject "Sewall, Samuel, 1652-1730 Diaries.".
- catalog tableOfContents "ch. 1. "My comfort and defense": the marriage of Hannah Hull and Samuel Sewall -- ch. 2. "Herein is my Father glorified": birth -- ch. 3. "The sorrowfull remembrance of Adam's carriage": child-rearing -- ch. 4. "A red coat for her little Aaron": children as "miniature adults" -- ch. 5. "Give her a lift towards heaven": the illness and death of children -- ch. 6. "Your son is now one of us": education -- ch. 7. "A trade that might be good for soul and body": the calling -- ch. 8. "No man came with him to me": children taken into the Sewall home -- ch. 9. "Hopes by going to sea after his time is out, may get a livelihood": sending out and taking in -- ch. 10. "A stone-ring and a fan with a noble letter to my daughter": courtship and marriage -- ch. 11. "Govr Dudley mention'd Christ's pardoning Mary Magdalen": the relationship between the generations -- ch. 12. "The fruit of the womb is a reward": conclusion.".
- catalog title "Puritan family life : the diary of Samuel Sewall / Judith S. Graham.".
- catalog type "Diaries. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".