| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.1

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Book Review

Early New England: A Covenanted Society. By David A. Weir. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2005. xviii, 460 pp. Paper, $34.00, ISBN 0-8028-1352-6.)

The history of Puritan New England has continuously attracted many fine scholars. Among them clearly is David A. Weir, whose book is the most detailed and ambitious analysis of the formation of all the surviving covenants in all the New England colonies from 1620 to 1708, or from the Mayflower Compact to the Saybrook Platform, the most important confessional document in New England, which marked a significant step toward Presbyterianism. The author claims that "the content of early New England church and civil covenants reflected a counterpoint of unity and diversity over the seventeenth century" (pp. 3–4). And by exploring thousands of town and church histories, this study is probably—and rightly so—the last word on this important subject. No small achievement for a historical study.

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