The Diary of Samuel Sewall, 1674-1729: Newly Edited from the Manuscript at the Massachusetts Historical Society (Volume I)

xxxvii, 612 pp. Volume I of II. 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.