New Light on the Old Colony : Plymouth, the Dutch Context of Toleration, and Patterns of Pilgrim Commemoration

New Light on the Old Colony: Plymouth, the Dutch Context of Toleration, and Patterns of Pilgrim Commemoration Copyright Contents List of Illustrations Abbreviations Introduction Part 1: The Old Colony Section 1: The Colony 1 Plymouth's Creation: a Congregational Commonwealth 1 The Mayflower Compact Gave Structure to Plymouth Colony's Society 2 The Mayflower Compact Lastingly Significant and Influential, or Temporarily Expedient and Forgotten? 3 Creating a Consensual Commonwealth 4 The Mayflower Compact as the Cornerstone and Framework of Plymouth Colony Constitutionalism 5 Dividing the Land, the First New Towns, and Other Democratic Choices 6 Plymouth's Expanded Constitution of 1636, More Towns and Churches, and the Shift to Representative Government 7 Churches, Government, Toleration, and Quakers 8 Representation by Selectmen, Taxation Supporting Churches 9 Conclusion 2 Tribes and Land Reserves in Plymouth Colony 1 The Tribes 2 Tribal Land, Tribal Losses 3 William Bradford's Sources for Dutch Law: Edward Grimeston and Emanuel van Meteren 1 Civil Marriage in Holland - Edward Grimeston 2 King James i and Church Reform - Emanuel van Meteren 3 The Union of Utrecht and the Act of Abjuration 4 Constructing History 4 Intellectual Baggage: the Useful Pilgrims and the Culture of Plymouth Colony 1 Death Preceded Them 2 Bibles 3 Psalm Books 4 Theology 5 Exegesis 6 Piety 7 Religious Polemics 8 History 9 Other 5 Towards a Revision of the Pilgrims: Three New Pictures 1 Background 2 A New Departure 3 A New Plymouth? 4 Another Portrait of Edward Winslow Section 2: The Towns 6 Scituate: Excerpts from the Introductions to The Seventeenth-Century Town Records of Scituate, Massachusetts 1 Studying Families in Context the New Antiquarianism 2 Scituate's Reality and Historiographical Myths 3 What Kind of Town Was Scituate? Historians Provide Answers 4 Topics of Conversation 5 Business and Craft Production in Scituate Ships and Shipping 6 Mills, Fishing, Furniture, and Other Work 7 Misbehavior 8 Prices, Wages, and Livestock 9 Some Conclusions 7 Eastham Town Records Introduction 1 Nauset 2 Eastham's Native Leaders and the First Colonists 8 Sandwich Town Records Introduction 9 Marshfield Town Records Introduction 1 Establishment 2 The Sufferings of Arthur Howland Part 2: The Dutch Context of Toleration 10 Dutch Aid to Persecuted Swiss and Palatine Mennonites, 1615-1699 1 Persecution, Reports, Response, and Remembrance 2 Doctrinal Bickering Amidst Persecution - 1614 3 Dutch Aid Begins (1640's) 4 Isaac Hattavier's Attempts to Help (1637-1658) 5 Hans Vlamingh's Contacts and Dutch Government Intercession (1650's and 1660's) 6 1663 Extract of List of the Names of Mennonite Prisoners 7 Philipp von Zesen's Book, Against the Coercion of Conscience (1665) 8 Hans Vlamingh, Galenus Abrahamsz. de Haan, Jacob Everling, and Valentin Huetwohl Disaster Relief in 1671-1672 9 The Disaster Year, 1672 10 Galenus Abrahamsz. de Haan, William Penn, and David Holtzhalb 11 Philippus van Limborch and John Locke's "Letter on Toleration" (1685-1689) 12 Mennonite Relief during the War of the Grand Alliance 11 Dutch Contributions to Religious Toleration 1 Adriaen van der Donck and the Absence of Toleration in New Netherland 2 Why did English People in 1657 Think there was Religious Freedom in Holland? 3 Dutch Sources for Ideas on Toleration in Plymouth Colony and Rhode Island 4 Dutch International Pleas for Toleration among Protestants Part 3: Patterns of Pilgrim Commemoration 12 Commemorating Colonial New England's First Families: the Triumph of the Pilgrims 1 Introduction 2 Objects of Veneration 3 The Rock in the Ooze 4 Eloquence 5 Seats of Authority 6 The Triumph of the Pilgrims 7 First-Person Fun 13 The Hypothetical Nature of Plimoth Plantation's Architecture 1 Fashionable Modes of Memory 2 The Background 3 1947-1966 Plimoth Plantation's Pilgrims as Prototypical Suburbanites 4 1967-1985 Pilgrims as Folk 5 1986-2000 Pilgrims as Identifiably Ethnic 6 2000-now Pilgrims as Representative of Their Class 7 Hypothetical Nature 8 Hypothetical Future 9 Postscript 2019 14 Always More Pilgrim Books 1 The Primary Sources for the Pilgrim Story 2 Nineteenth-century Histories 3 Twentieth-century Repetition and Revision 4 Into the Future - Pilgrims 2000 and Beyond 5 Where Do We Go Next? 15 Thanksgiving on the Net: Roast Bull with Cranberry Sauce 1 Talking Turkey 2 The Text 3 Thanking Whom? 4 Colored Clothes, No Buckled Hats! My Goodness! 5 And, Yes, They Did Call Themselves "Pilgrims" 6 The Fake Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1623 7 The Libertarian's First Thanksgiving 8 A Cornucopia of Grievances 9 The National Day of Mourning 10 Genocide 11 Lies My Teacher's Telling Me Now Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs: a List of Publications Concerning the Pilgrims and Plymouth Colony Bibliography Index of People Index of Places and Subjects "Colonial government, Pilgrims, the New England town, Native land, the background of religious toleration, and the changing memory recalling the Pilgrims - 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. Bangs' 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"-- Provided by publisher