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A Tale of Two Bostons reconstructs the trans-Atlantic origins of Boston, Massachusetts by tracing its foundations back to its English namesake: Boston, Lincolnshire.
Drawing on parish registers, legal charters, migration records, and family networks, Barry Arthur Cotton reveals how a small market town on England’s east coast produced a disproportionate share of the clergy, magistrates, merchants, and ministers who shaped early New England. These men—later known as the “Boston Men”—formed the governing, religious, and institutional core of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Rather than beginning in America, this study grounds New England’s origins in England itself: in Lincolnshire’s grammar schools, dissenting pulpits, merchant networks, and kinship ties. It follows the migration pipeline that carried these individuals across the Atlantic and shows how English social structures were transplanted, adapted, and institutionalized in the New World.
New England Origins, Volume I is the first book in a multi-volume historical series examining the English, religious, genealogical, and institutional foundations of early New England. Written for scholars, genealogists, and serious general readers, this volume restores the human and structural forces that shaped Boston’s emergence at the heart of the Atlantic world.
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