Description Misunderstandings between races, hostilities between cultures.
This book is something much more, however: a broad and deeply textured view of life in early New England, blending theology, politics, and economic realities into a single compelling story." --Margaret Bendroth, Executive Director, Congregational Library, Boston, MA "David Power.
Minkema, Director, Jonathan Edwards Center, Yale University, New Haven, CT "If David Powers\'s remarkable work were only the story of William Pynchon\'s life and thought it would be a model of scholarly depth, well worth reading as a solid, learned account of an unusual Puritan.
This first book-length biography of Pynchon brings to bear new knowledge and approaches to the settlement period of New England, to give us a portrait of a person who was as complex as the Puritan movement from which he came." --Kenneth P.
But as David Powers shows, Pynchon was every bit as much an intercultural pioneer and religious figure with unorthodox ideas. "As the key founder of Springfield, Massachusetts, William Pynchon has been used by historians to show the economic origins of New England.
Discover the fabric of his times and the roles Pynchon played in the Puritan venture in Old England and New England.
Now for the first time, this book provides a comprehensive account of Pynchon\'s story, beginning in England, through his New England adventures, to his return home.
Two things in particular stand out in Pynchon\'s pioneering life: he enjoyed extraordinary and uniquely positive relationships with Native peoples, and he wrote the first book banned--and burned--in Boston.
All of this can be found in the life of one man--William Pynchon, the Puritan entrepreneur and founder of Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1636.
Charged with speaking the unspeakable and publishing the unprintable.
Unruly residents in a remote frontier community.
Being accused of profiteering when food was scarce.
Anxiety from living in a time of war in one\'s own land.
Description Misunderstandings between races, hostilities between cultures
