6 John Dane, “A Declaration of Remarkabell Prouidenses in the Corse of My Lyfe,” NEHGR 8 (1854), 154; for many testimonies to the importance of personal religion as the primary motive for migration see George Selement and Bruce C. Woolley, eds., Thomas Shepard’s Confessions, CSM Pubs. 58 (1981), 108, 113, 131; Alexander Young, Chronicles of the First Planters of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay (1846, rpt. Williamstown, 1978); and Cotton Mather, Magnalia Christi Americana (1702, rpt. 1852, New York, 1967), which publishes excerpts from journals since lost.
7 Alan Simpson, Puritanism in Old and New England (Chicago, 1955), 21.
8 Edmund S. Morgan, Visible Saints; The History of a Puritan Idea (New York, 1963), chaps. 1-3.
9 Kenneth A. Lockridge, “The History of a Puritan Church, 1637-1736,” NEQ 40 (1967), 397-424.