1 Winthrop, Journal, II, 122 (1643); Johnson, Wonder-working Providence, 183; Samuel Maverick, “A Brief Description of New England and the Severall Townes Therein, Together with the Present Government Thereof,” MAHSP, 2d series, I (1884-85), 235; David Grayson Allen, In English Ways (Chapel Hill, 1981).
2 Christine Heyrman, Commerce and Culture: The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts, 1690-1750 (New York, 1984); Stephen Innes, Labor in a New Land: Economy and Society in Seventeenth Century Springfield (Princeton, 1983).
3 The quantitative research of James Kimenker, Richard Weintraub and Marc Harris have established that 80 to 90% of Concord’s male polls engaged primarily in agriculture before 1790; this proportion may be taken as typical of most farming towns; in the region as a whole the proportion was a little lower; see D. H. Fischer, ed., Concord: The Social History of a New England Town, 1750-1850 (Waltham, 1983), 65-261.