Synopses & Reviews
Puritan judge Samuel Sewall witnessed or participated in many of the most important imperial episodes of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Massachusetts. These episodes punctuated his diary, which he kept daily for 55 years to record the issues that concerned him most — family, church, and town. Five representative years from his diary — 1685, 1696, 1706, 1717, 1726 — are reprinted here in their entirety.
About the Author
Mel Yazawa is associate professor of history at the University of New Mexico, where he has taught since 1984. He has been the recipient of a Presidential Lectureship, the Snead-Wertheim Lectureship, and a Faculty Recognition Award during his tenure. A specialist in the Revolutionary period and the intellectual history of early America, he has written , among other works, Representative Government and the Revolution: The Maryland Constitutional Crisis of 1789 (1975): From Colonies to Commonwealth: Familial Ideology and the Beginnings of the American Republic (1985); and "Republican Expectations: Revolutionary Ideology and the Compromise of 1790" in A Republic for the Ages, edited by Donald Kenon (forthcoming). Yazawa is currently working on a historiographical analysis of early America.
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