ISBN: 9798994186749 - Generations of Endurance: A New England Family Chronicle (7 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Generations of Endurance: A New England Family Chronicle is a companion to Generations of Endurance: An American Family Chronicle. This novel continues the theme-one shaped not by inevitability, but by convictions lived through the family connections of endurance.Although much of this narrative unfolds in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century New England, its origins lie earlier. The moral architecture that governed colonial towns did not rise spontaneously in the New World. It was carried across the Atlantic from England and Ireland, shaped by the upheavals of the Reformation, refined in Geneva, and contested through competing visions of authority and conscience. Figures such as John Calvin and William Whittingham, chief editor of the Geneva Bible, belong to this deeper background-not as protagonists, but as formative influences whose ideas traveled with family who later crossed the ocean to America. Calvinism being the core and foundation of Puritanism. The influence of the Whittingham family flowed through the early ancestors of this narrative.Families such as the Holyokes, Keyser's, Stocktons, Pynchons, and Putnams arrived in New England, formed by this inheritance. They entered a society where faith and public life were inseparable, where education carried moral obligation, and where conscience demanded visible consequences. Churches governed communities, courts enforced orthodoxy, and dissent-whether theological or civic-was rarely neutral. Endurance was tested through scrutiny, judgment, and sacrifice. This carried through to the family witnesses at the Salem Witch Trials.This family story moves through colonial settlement, through national institutions and the founding history of this country. Along the way, documented threads of family appear, including George Calvert, Lord Baltimore. The family path intersects with early Quaker life, the abolitionist writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, the presidential leadership of Harvard College, the American Revolution, Major General Israel Putnam and John Hancock, and ultimately reaches Northwest Ohioand intersects with the Keezer (Keyser) family and William Howard Taft. The common ancestor is the Keyser and Holyokes. What endures is not uniformity, but the careful transmission of belief, learning, and responsibility across generations and the merging of family from the Generations of Endurance: An American Family Chronicle. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Buch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Generations of Endurance: A New England Family Chronicle is a companion to Generations of Endurance: An American Family Chronicle. This novel continues the theme-one shaped not by inevitability, but by convictions lived through the family connections of endurance.Although much of this narrative unfolds in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century New England, its origins lie earlier. The moral architecture that governed colonial towns did not rise spontaneously in the New World. It was carried across the Atlantic from England and Ireland, shaped by the upheavals of the Reformation, refined in Geneva, and contested through competing visions of authority and conscience. Figures such as John Calvin and William Whittingham, chief editor of the Geneva Bible, belong to this deeper background-not as protagonists, but as formative influences whose ideas traveled with family who later crossed the ocean to America. Calvinism being the core and foundation of Puritanism. The influence of the Whittingham family flowed through the early ancestors of this narrative.Families such as the Holyokes, Keyser's, Stocktons, Pynchons, and Putnams arrived in New England, formed by this inheritance. They entered a society where faith and public life were inseparable, where education carried moral obligation, and where conscience demanded visible consequences. Churches governed communities, courts enforced orthodoxy, and dissent-whether theological or civic-was rarely neutral. Endurance was tested through scrutiny, judgment, and sacrifice. This carried through to the family witnesses at the Salem Witch Trials.This family story moves through colonial settlement, through national institutions and the founding history of this country. Along the way, documented threads of family appear, including George Calvert, Lord Baltimore. The family path intersects with early Quaker life, the abolitionist writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, the presidential leadership of Harvard College, the American Revolution, Major General Israel Putnam and John Hancock, and ultimately reaches Northwest Ohioand intersects with the Keezer (Keyser) family and William Howard Taft. The common ancestor is the Keyser and Holyokes. What endures is not uniformity, but the careful transmission of belief, learning, and responsibility across generations and the merging of family from the Generations of Endurance: An American Family Chronicle.…