5 On this subject I have been taught by my students Gail Goldberg, “Puritan Fathers,” and Naomi Levitsky, “Ralph Josselin and Samuel Sewall: Two Puritan Fathers” (unpublished papers, Brandeis, 26 Nov. 1986).

6 Thomas Cobbett, A Fruitfull and Usefull Discourse Touching the Honour Due from Children to Parents and the Duty of Parents toward Their Children (London, 1656).

7 In 1633, Samuel Fuller sent his daughter Mercy into another household at the same time that he took three other children into his own home. “Abstract of the First Wills in the Probate Office, Plymouth,” NEHGR 4 (1850), 33.

8 Morgan, Puritan Family, 77.