Ebook: First founders: American Puritans and Puritanism in an Atlantic world

John Winthrop and the struggle to lead a godly life -- John Endecott : godly magistrate -- John Wilson : Puritan pastor -- Thomas Dudley and Thomas Shepard : hammers of heretics -- Four strong women : Anne Hutchinson, Mary Dyer, Lady Deborah Moody, and Anne Eaton -- The troubled Keaynes -- Stephen Winthrop : soldier of the Lord -- Hugh Peter : regicide -- John Davenport and the Middle Advent -- Samuel Winthrop : from Puritan to Quaker -- John Sassamon : a Puritan between two cultures -- John Leverett : defending the ways of the fathers -- Anne Bradstreet : Puritan wife and mother -- Samuel Sewall : the conscience of a Puritan -- Conclusion : civil society and the godly kingdom.;In this collection of biographies, Bremer brings a varied and dynamic group of characters who continue to guide and influence America today. With its cast of magistrates, women, clergy, merchants, and Native Americans, First Founders underscores the breadth of early American experience and the transatlantic roots of our country's forebears. --from publisher description.