Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Domestic Life in New England in the Seventeenth Century: A Discourse Delivered in the Lecture Hall of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, It Being One of a Series Designed to Mark the Opening of the American Wing
The evil that men do lives after them The good is oft interred with their bones.
Nevertheless, there were fully as many sinners as saints living within the control of the Puritan autocracy in the Massachusetts Bay and it is to be hoped that the contem poraneous data here presented may aid in bringing about a readjustment of values in the mind of some reader.
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