10 In Rowley the local minister, Ezekiel Rogers, added as a test for membership his own creed, “I professe myselfe to have lived and to dye an unfeigned Hater of all the Base opinnions of the Anabaptists and antinomians, and all other phrentiche dotages of the times that spring from them which God will ere longe cause to be as dung upon the earth.” Quoted in Patricia O’Malley, “Rowley, Massachusetts” (thesis, Boston College, 1975), 23; statistics of church membership in Sudbury and Watertown are from Johnson, Wonder-working Providence, 74, 197.
11 Richard Gildrie found the following pattern in church membership of Salem men, by wealth:
Land Holdings (acres) |
Church Members (%) |
N |
100 + |
83.3 |
30 |
60-99 |
81.3 |
16 |
30-59 |
75.1 |
42 |
10-29 |
41.7 |
67 |
.1-10 |
35.4 |
79 |
None |
25.0 |
4 |
Total |
53.4 |
238 |
Source: Richard P. Gildrie, “Salem, 1626-1668: History of a Covenanted Community” (thesis, Univ. of Va., 1971), 153.
12 Thomas J. Wertenbaker, The Puritan Oligarchy (New York, 1947).
13 Mather, Magnalia Christi Americana, I, 274.