3D SER., 41, NO. 1 (JANUARY 1984)
Revising the Errand: New England&#;s Ways and the Puritan Sense of the Past
David M. Scobey
3
The Meeting of Elite and Popular Minds at Cambridge, New England, 1638&#;1645
George Selement
32
Toward a History of Popular Religion in Early New England
David D. Hall
49
New England as Idea and Society Revisited
Darrett B. Rutman
56
Charles Brockden Brown,Edgar Huntly and the Origins of the American Picturesque
Dennis Berthold
62
Notes and Documents
The Population of the United States, 1790: A Symposium
The European Ancestry of the United States Population, 1790
Thomas L. Purvis
85
Why the Accepted Estimates of Ethnicity of the American People, 1790, Are Unacceptable
Donald H. Akenson
102
Commentary: Thomas L. Purvis, Donald H. Akenson, and Forrest and Ellen Shapiro McDonald
119
Trivia
Reviews of Books
The Papers of George Washington. Colonial Series. Vol. I:1748&#;August 1755. Vol. II: August 1755–April 1756, ed. Abbott, Twohig, et al. By Donald H. Kent 137
Marshall and Williams, The Great Map of Mankind: Perceptions of New Worlds in the Age of Enlightenment. By Bernard W. Sheehan 140
Hambrick-Stowe, The Practice of Piety: Puritan Devotional Disciplines in Seventeenth&#;Century New England. By J. William T. Youngs 141
The Hammond-Harwood House Atlas of Historical Maps of Maryland, 1608&#;1908, comp. Papenfuse and Coale. By John H. Long 146
Hoffer and Hull, Murdering Mothers: Infanticide in England and New England, 1558&#;1803. By Ross W. Beales, Jr. 148
Biemer, Women and Property in Colonial New York: The Transition from Dutch to English Law, 1643&#;1727. By Robert C. Ritchie 150
O&#;Mara, An Historical Geography of Urban System Development: Tidewater Virginia in the 18th Century. By Carville Earle 151
Moore, Louibourg Portraits: Life in an Eighteenth-Century Garrison Town. By James Axtell 153
Marienstras, Les Mythes fondateurs de la nation americaine: Essai sur le discours ideologique aux Etats-‘Unis a l&#;epoque de l’independence (1763&#;1800). By Joyce Appleby 156
Cohen, A Calculating People: The Spread of Numeracy in Early America. By Roy N. Lokken 158
Bullion, A Great and Necessary Measure: George Grenville and the Genesis of the Stamp Act, 1763&#;1765. By Cornelius P. Forster 159
Pencak, American&#;s Burke: The Mind of Thomas Hutchinson. By John E. Ferling 161
Bogin, Abraham Clarke and the Quest for Equality in the Revolutionary Era, 1774&#;1794. By Philander D. Chase 163
Skeen, John Armstrong, Jr., 1758&#;1843: A Biography. By Philander D. Chase 163
Shreve, Tench Tilghman: The Life and Times of Washington&#;s Aide-de-camp. By Philander D. Chase 163
Letters of Thomas Attwood Digges (1742&#;1821), ed. Elias and Finch. By Carla H. Hay 165
The Adams Papers. Series I: Diaries. Diary of John Quincy Adams. Vol. I: November 1779&#;March 1786. Vol. II: March 1786–December 1788, ed. Taylor and Friedlaender et al. By Robert A. Becker 167
The Papers of George Washington. The Journal of the Proceedings of the President, 1793&#;1797, ed. Twohig. By Linda K. Kerber 169
Spater, William Cobbett: The Poor Man&#;s Friend. By John Clive 171
Myers, Liberty without Anarchy: A History of the Society of Cincinnati. By Lawrence Delbert Cress 174
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