6 Alice Morse Earle, Customs and Fashions in Old New England (New York, 1893, rpt. Rutland, Vt., 1973), 71.

7 Sarah Story’s name was variously spelled Storey or Storre.

8 Edmund Morgan, The Puritan Family: Religion & Domestic Relations in the Seventeenth Century (1944, rev. ed., New York, 1956), 150.

9 Charles M. Andrews, Pilgrims and Puritans (New Haven, 1926), 166.