14 For the Puritan work ethic see Stephen Foster, Their Solitary Way: The Puritan Social Ethic in the First Century of Settlement in New England (New Haven, 1971), 99-126.
1 Sewall, Diary, ed. Thomas, I, 660 (1711).
2Mass. Bay Records, I, 109, 112 (1 Oct. 1633, 4 March 1633/34).