7 Cotton, God’s Free Grace, 19.
8 John Cotton, Christ the Fountaine of Life (London, 1651), 33; quoted in Morgan, Puritan Family, 6-7; the Puritan idea of the family covenant is discussed in ibid., 6-9, 181; see also Champlin Burrage, The Church Covenant Idea (Philadelphia, 1904); Leonard J. Trinterud, “The Origins of Puritanism,” Church History 20 (1951), 55; Miller, Errand into the Wilderness and The New England Mind, 366-97.
9 The magnitudes of difference were very great, and have been replicated in many studies. See below, “Massachusetts Naming Ways.”
10 Robert L. Goodman, “Newbury, Massachusetts, 1635-1685: The Social Foundations of Harmony and Conflict” (thesis, Michigan State Univ., 1974), 65; the magnitudes of difference between Puritan and non-Puritan colonies cannot be accounted for by mortality rates.