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“A meticulous and remarkably detailed account of the early government and social organization of the town of Sudbury, Massachusetts . . . The people and the events can be absorbing” —Time
An award-winning study of Puritans and the formation of their towns.
“Puritan Village is a model study of its kind.”—Malcolm Freiberg, The American Historical Review
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Pulitzer Prize for History 1964
American Association for State and Local History 1963
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SUMNER CHILTON POWELL is a 1946 graduate of Amherst and received a doctorate from Harvard ten years later. A teacher of history on the secondary level (Choate, Bernard School for Boys), he has done much experimental work in tape teaching. This book – his third, but his first for an adult audience – was the culmination of ten years’ detective work among local records, archives, and private collections I the U.S. and England. It received the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1964.
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