People, Politics, and Society in Colonial Western Massachusetts

Chapter 1: “The Worshipful Peter Tilton” of Hadley: A Backwoods Puritan Populist Politician and His Books

Chapter 2: “Being Old and Dayly Finding the Symptoms of Mortality”: The Troubled Last Years

of Hannah Beamon of Deerfield and the Law of 1726

Chapter 3: “He Would Have the Honour of It”: William Huxley’s Madness and Slave

Manumission in Eighteenth-Century Suffield, Massachusetts

Chapter 4: “Her Natural Temper Disposes Her Much More to Dominion than Subjection”: Abigail Williams, Jonathan Edwards and the Indian Mission at Stockbridge

Chapter 5: “To Promote Religion and Learning and Piety”: The Failure of Queens College, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, Revisited

Chapter 6: “To be More of a Willow and Less of an Oak”: Charles Phelps, Thomas Hutchinson and the Failure of Israel Williams

Chapter 7: “Laggard Revolutionists”?: The Coming of the Revolution to Hampshire County

Conclusion: A “Surprisingly Modern” Hampshire County?