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New Light on the Old Colony
Plymouth, the Dutch Context of Toleration, and Patterns of Pilgrim Commemoration
Series: - Early American History Series, Volume: 10
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Colonial government, Pilgrims, the New England town, Native land, the background of religious toleration, and the changing memory recalling the Pilgrims â all are examined and stereotypical assumptions overturned in 15 essays by the foremost authority on the Pilgrims and Plymouth Colony.
Thorough research revises the story of colonists and of the people they displaced. Bangsâ book is required reading for the history of New England, Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts Natives, the Mennonite contribution to religious toleration in Europe and New England, and the history of commemoration, from paintings and pageants to living history and internet memes. If Pilgrims were radical, so is this book.
Thorough research revises the story of colonists and of the people they displaced. Bangsâ book is required reading for the history of New England, Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts Natives, the Mennonite contribution to religious toleration in Europe and New England, and the history of commemoration, from paintings and pageants to living history and internet memes. If Pilgrims were radical, so is this book.
Jeremy Bangs, Ph.D. (Leiden, 1976) is Director of the Leiden American Pilgrim Museum; former Visiting Curator of Manuscripts, Pilgrim Hall Museum; Chief Curator, Plimoth Plantation; Curator, Leiden Pilgrim Documents Center. Author of over 20 books including Strangers and Pilgrims, Travellers and Sojourners (2009).
"This lengthy book draws on Bangsâs four decades of research into the Pilgrims. The range of topics is wide, including discussions and analyses of intellectual and religious history, the divisions of land in the colony, relevant portraits, old town records, and reception history, among other things. This book is not for beginners, and there is no summarizing narrative of the Pilgrims before and after their voyage to the New World. The basics are assumed. But those who know the story and are interested in digging more deeply will want to consult this informative volume, which is a fitting example of Bangsâs prolific work on the Pilgrims and does in fact shed new light."
Keith D. Stanglin, Austin Graduate School of Theology, in Church History and Religious Culture CHRC 101.1, pp 119-120
"One problem with Pilgrim history is that everyone thinks they already know it. This book makes clear that in forty years of studying the Pilgrims, Bangs has discovered plenty that is new. Historians of early America owe it to themselves to listen."
Michael J. Douma, Georgetown University, McDonough School of Business, in the Journal of Early American History, volume 10, pp. 112-115.
Keith D. Stanglin, Austin Graduate School of Theology, in Church History and Religious Culture CHRC 101.1, pp 119-120
"One problem with Pilgrim history is that everyone thinks they already know it. This book makes clear that in forty years of studying the Pilgrims, Bangs has discovered plenty that is new. Historians of early America owe it to themselves to listen."
Michael J. Douma, Georgetown University, McDonough School of Business, in the Journal of Early American History, volume 10, pp. 112-115.
List of Illustrations
Introduction
â1Plymouthâs Creation: A Congregational Commonwealth
â1The Mayflower Compact gave Structure to Plymouth Colonyâs Society
â2The Mayflower Compact: Lastingly Significant and Influential, or Temporarily Expedient and Forgotten?
â3Creating a Consensual Commonwealth
â4The Mayflower Compact as the Cornerstone and Framework of Plymouth Colony Constitutionalism
â5Dividing the Land, the First New Towns, and Other Democratic Choices
â6Plymouthâs Expanded Constitution of 1636, More Towns and Churches, and the Shift to Representative Government
â7Churches, Government, Toleration, and Quakers
â8Representation by Selectmen, Taxation supporting Churches
â9Conclusion
â2Tribes and Land Reserves in Plymouth Colony
â1Empty New England
â2Not Really Empty
â3Pokanoket
â4Nauset
â5Nemasket
â6The Massachusetts
â7Narragansetts
â8Intrigue and Death
â9Tribal Land, Tribal Losses
â10Nauset, Manomet, and the Mashpee Reserve
â11The Pokanoket Indians and the Mount Hope (Montaup) Reserve
â12The Massachusetts and the Titicut Reserve
â13The Wampanoag
â3William Bradfordâs Sources for Dutch Law: Edward Grimeston and Emanuel van Meteren
â1Civil Marriage in Holland â Edward Grimeston
â2King Jamesi and Church Reform â Emanuel van Meteren
â3The Union of Utrecht and the Act of Abjuration
â4Constructing History
â4Intellectual Baggage: The Useful Pilgrims and the Culture of Plymouth Colony
â1Death Preceded Them
â2Bibles
â3Psalm Books
â4Theology
â5Exegesis
â6Piety
â7Religious Polemics
â8History
â9Other
â5Towards a Revision of the Pilgrims: Three New Pictures
â1Background
â2A New Departure
â3A New Plymouth?
â4Another Portrait of Edward Winslow
â6Scituate: Excerpts from the Introductions to the Seventeenth-Century Town Records of Scituate, Massachusetts
â1Studying Families in Context: The New Antiquarianism
â2Scituateâs Reality and Historiographical Myths
â3What kind of town was Scituate? Historians provide answers
â4Topics of Conversation
â5Business and craft production in Scituate: Ships and Shipping
â6Mills, Fishing, Furniture, and Other Work
â7Misbehavior
â8Prices, Wages, and Livestock
â9Some Conclusions
â7Eastham Town Records Introduction
â1Easthamâs Native Leaders and the First Colonists
â8Sandwich Town Records Introduction
â9Marshfield Town Records Introduction
â1The Sufferings of Arthur Howland
â10Dutch Aid to Persecuted Swiss and Palatine Mennonites, 1615â1699
â1Persecution, Reports, Response, and Remembrance
â2Doctrinal Bickering Amidst Persecution â 1614
â3Dutch Aid Begins (1640âs)
â4Isaac Hattavierâs Attempts to Help (1637â1658)
â5Hans Vlaminghâs Contacts and Dutch Government Intercession (1650âs and 1660âs)
â61663 Extract of List of the Names of Mennonite Prisoners
â7Philipp von Zesenâs Book, Against the Coercion of Conscience(1665)
â8Hans Vlamingh, Galenus Abrahamsz. de Haan, Jacob Everling, and Valentin Huetwohl: Disaster Relief in 1671â1672
â9The Disaster Year, 1672
â10Galenus Abrahamsz. de Haan, William Penn, and David Holtzhalb
â11Philippus van Limborch and John Lockeâs âLetter on Tolerationâ (1685â1689)
â12Mennonite Relief during the War of the Grand Alliance
â11Dutch Contributions to Religious Toleration
â1Adriaen van der Donck and the Absence of Toleration in New Netherland
â2Why did English People in 1657 Think there was Religious Freedom in Holland?
â3Dutch Sources for Ideas on Toleration in Plymouth Colony and Rhode Island
â4Dutch International Pleas for Toleration among Protestants
â5Patterns of Pilgrim Commemoration
â12The Triumph of the Pilgrims
â1First-Person Fun
â13The Hypothetical Nature of Plimoth Plantationâs Architecture
â1Fashionable Modes of Memory
â2The background
â31947â1966: Plimoth Plantationâs Pilgrims as Prototypical Suburbanites
â41967â1985: Pilgrims as Folk
â51986â2000: Pilgrims as Identifiably Ethnic
â62000ânow: Pilgrims as Representative of their Class
â7Hypothetical Nature
â8Hypothetical Future
â9Postscript 2019
â14Always More Pilgrim Books
â1The Primary Sources for the Pilgrim Story
â2Nineteenth-century Histories
â3Twentieth-century Repetition and Revision
â4Into the Future â Pilgrims 2000 and Beyond
â5Where Do We Go Next?
â15Thanksgiving on the Net: Roast Bull with Cranberry Sauce
â1Talking Turkey
â2The Text
â3Thanking Whom?
â4Colored Clothes, No Buckled Hats! My Goodness!
â5And, Yes, They did Call Themselves âPilgrims.â
â6The Fake Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1623
â7The Libertarianâs First Thanksgiving
â8A Cornucopia of Grievances
â9The National Day of Mourning
â10Genocide
â11Lies My Teacherâs Telling Me Now
âJeremy Dupertuis Bangs: A List of Publications Concerning the Pilgrims and Plymouth Colony
âBooks â Author or editor of
âBook Chapters
âLemmas
âArticles
âBibliography
âIndex
Introduction
Section 1: The Old Colony
Part 1: The Colony
â1Plymouthâs Creation: A Congregational Commonwealth
â1The Mayflower Compact gave Structure to Plymouth Colonyâs Society
â2The Mayflower Compact: Lastingly Significant and Influential, or Temporarily Expedient and Forgotten?
â3Creating a Consensual Commonwealth
â4The Mayflower Compact as the Cornerstone and Framework of Plymouth Colony Constitutionalism
â5Dividing the Land, the First New Towns, and Other Democratic Choices
â6Plymouthâs Expanded Constitution of 1636, More Towns and Churches, and the Shift to Representative Government
â7Churches, Government, Toleration, and Quakers
â8Representation by Selectmen, Taxation supporting Churches
â9Conclusion
â2Tribes and Land Reserves in Plymouth Colony
â1Empty New England
â2Not Really Empty
â3Pokanoket
â4Nauset
â5Nemasket
â6The Massachusetts
â7Narragansetts
â8Intrigue and Death
â9Tribal Land, Tribal Losses
â10Nauset, Manomet, and the Mashpee Reserve
â11The Pokanoket Indians and the Mount Hope (Montaup) Reserve
â12The Massachusetts and the Titicut Reserve
â13The Wampanoag
â3William Bradfordâs Sources for Dutch Law: Edward Grimeston and Emanuel van Meteren
â1Civil Marriage in Holland â Edward Grimeston
â2King James
â3The Union of Utrecht and the Act of Abjuration
â4Constructing History
â4Intellectual Baggage: The Useful Pilgrims and the Culture of Plymouth Colony
â1Death Preceded Them
â2Bibles
â3Psalm Books
â4Theology
â5Exegesis
â6Piety
â7Religious Polemics
â8History
â9Other
â5Towards a Revision of the Pilgrims: Three New Pictures
â1Background
â2A New Departure
â3A New Plymouth?
â4Another Portrait of Edward Winslow
Part 2: The Towns
â6Scituate: Excerpts from the Introductions to the Seventeenth-Century Town Records of Scituate, Massachusetts
â1Studying Families in Context: The New Antiquarianism
â2Scituateâs Reality and Historiographical Myths
â3What kind of town was Scituate? Historians provide answers
â4Topics of Conversation
â5Business and craft production in Scituate: Ships and Shipping
â6Mills, Fishing, Furniture, and Other Work
â7Misbehavior
â8Prices, Wages, and Livestock
â9Some Conclusions
â7Eastham Town Records Introduction
â1Easthamâs Native Leaders and the First Colonists
â8Sandwich Town Records Introduction
â9Marshfield Town Records Introduction
â1The Sufferings of Arthur Howland
Section 2: The Dutch Context of Toleration
â10Dutch Aid to Persecuted Swiss and Palatine Mennonites, 1615â1699
â1Persecution, Reports, Response, and Remembrance
â2Doctrinal Bickering Amidst Persecution â 1614
â3Dutch Aid Begins (1640âs)
â4Isaac Hattavierâs Attempts to Help (1637â1658)
â5Hans Vlaminghâs Contacts and Dutch Government Intercession (1650âs and 1660âs)
â61663 Extract of List of the Names of Mennonite Prisoners
â7Philipp von Zesenâs Book, Against the Coercion of Conscience(1665)
â8Hans Vlamingh, Galenus Abrahamsz. de Haan, Jacob Everling, and Valentin Huetwohl: Disaster Relief in 1671â1672
â9The Disaster Year, 1672
â10Galenus Abrahamsz. de Haan, William Penn, and David Holtzhalb
â11Philippus van Limborch and John Lockeâs âLetter on Tolerationâ (1685â1689)
â12Mennonite Relief during the War of the Grand Alliance
â11Dutch Contributions to Religious Toleration
â1Adriaen van der Donck and the Absence of Toleration in New Netherland
â2Why did English People in 1657 Think there was Religious Freedom in Holland?
â3Dutch Sources for Ideas on Toleration in Plymouth Colony and Rhode Island
â4Dutch International Pleas for Toleration among Protestants
â5Patterns of Pilgrim Commemoration
Section 3: Patterns of Pilgrim Commemoration
â12The Triumph of the Pilgrims
â1First-Person Fun
â13The Hypothetical Nature of Plimoth Plantationâs Architecture
â1Fashionable Modes of Memory
â2The background
â31947â1966: Plimoth Plantationâs Pilgrims as Prototypical Suburbanites
â41967â1985: Pilgrims as Folk
â51986â2000: Pilgrims as Identifiably Ethnic
â62000ânow: Pilgrims as Representative of their Class
â7Hypothetical Nature
â8Hypothetical Future
â9Postscript 2019
â14Always More Pilgrim Books
â1The Primary Sources for the Pilgrim Story
â2Nineteenth-century Histories
â3Twentieth-century Repetition and Revision
â4Into the Future â Pilgrims 2000 and Beyond
â5Where Do We Go Next?
â15Thanksgiving on the Net: Roast Bull with Cranberry Sauce
â1Talking Turkey
â2The Text
â3Thanking Whom?
â4Colored Clothes, No Buckled Hats! My Goodness!
â5And, Yes, They did Call Themselves âPilgrims.â
â6The Fake Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1623
â7The Libertarianâs First Thanksgiving
â8A Cornucopia of Grievances
â9The National Day of Mourning
â10Genocide
â11Lies My Teacherâs Telling Me Now
âJeremy Dupertuis Bangs: A List of Publications Concerning the Pilgrims and Plymouth Colony
âBooks â Author or editor of
âBook Chapters
âLemmas
âArticles
âBibliography
âIndex
Significant for general readers and specialists interested in New England, the Pilgrims, Native American history, church history, Mennonite history, commemorative art; will also appeal to genealogists with a Pilgrim focus.