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The Puritan Ideology of Mobility: Corporatism, the Politics of Place, and the Founding of New England Towns before 1650 examines the ideology that English Puritans developed to justify migration: their migration from England to New England, migrations from one town to another within New England, and, often, their repatriation to the mother country. Puritan leaders believed firmly that nations, colonies, and towns were all "bodies politic," that is, living and organic social bodies. However, if a social body became distempered because of scarce resources or political or religious discord, it became necessary to create a new social body from the old in order to restore balance and harmony. The new social body was articulated through the social ritual of land distribution according to Aristotelian "distributive justice." The book will trace this process at work in the founding of Ipswich and its satellite town in Massachusetts. | The Puritan Ideology of Mobility: Corporatism, the Politics of Place, and the Founding of New England Towns before 1650 examines the ideology that English Puritans developed to justify migration: their migration from England to New England, migrations from one town to another within New England, and, often, their repatriation to the mother country. Guided by the Protestant scholasticism of Cambridge University, Puritan leaders accepted the ancient corporatist image of society as a living, organic body politic, a model which they applied to nations, colonies, business corporations like the Massachusetts Bay Company, and towns. But if a town, a colony, or a nation were a living body, how could Puritans justify withdrawing from one body to form a new social body, as they so often did? Drawing on the prevailing humoral theory of health, Puritans leaders believed that if a social body became "distempered" because of insufficient resources or political or religious disagreements, it might become necessary to bring about a new body politic in order to restore balance and harmony to the existing one. This theory gave rise to a robust "politics of place" in colonial New England, where one's choice of residence could make a strong political statement. In order to facilitate the founding of new town bodies, colonial elites were endowed with unique privileges of mobility. But these entrepreneurs also needed ordinary inhabitants to make a successful migration, so that the various "members" of the new social body all benefited from the opportunities conferred through the privilege of migration. The body of a new town was articulated through the social ritual of land distribution, carried out in proportion to rank according to Aristotelian "distributive justice." The book will trace this process at work in the founding of Ipswich and its satellite towns in Massachusetts. The Puritan Ideology of Mobility: Corporatism, the Politics of Place, and the Founding of New England Towns before 1650' examines the ideology that English Puritans developed to justify migration: their migration from England to New England, migrations from one town to another within New England, and, often, their repatriation to the mother country. Guided by the Protestant scholasticism of Cambridge University, Puritan leaders accepted the ancient corporatist image of society as a living, organic body politic, a model which they applied to nations, colonies, business corporations like the Massachusetts Bay Company, and towns.00But if a town, a colony, or a nation were a living body, how could Puritans justify withdrawing from one body to form a new social body, as they so often did? Drawing on the prevailing humoral theory of health, Puritans leaders believed that if a social body became ?distempered? because of insufficient resources or political or religious disagreements, it might become necessary to bring about a new body politic in order to restore balance and harmony to the existing one. This theory gave rise to a robust ?politics of place? in colonial New England, where one?s choice of residence could make a strong political statement.000Scott McDermott received his Ph.D. in 2014 from Saint Louis University. He is Assistant Professor of History at Albany State University in Georgia Cover 1 Front Matter 5 Title page 5 Copyright information 6 Dedication 7 Epigraphy 8 Contents 9 List of figures 11 Preface 13 Acknowledgments 25 A Note on Dates 27 Chapter Int-null 29 Chapter One Puritans and Society in the Stour Valley 29 Chapter Two The Puritan Ideology of Mobility 61 Chapter Three Land Distribution in Colonial Ipswich 81 Chapter Four Town-Founding in Essex County The Communities around Ipswich 107 Epilogue 125 End Matter 133 Notes 133 Works Cited 177 Primary Sources 177 Secondary Sources 183 Electronic Resources 201 Index 203 The Puritan Ideology of Mobility: Corporatism, the Politics of Place, and the Founding of New England Towns before 1650 presents the ideology of mobility which Puritan leaders developed to justify migration and town founding. New England towns were born as living "bodies politic" with a metaphysical basis in keeping with Christian corporatist theory