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””’Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town””’ is a nonfiction history book by American historian [[Sumner Chilton Powell]] published in 1963 by [[Wesleyan University Press]], which won the 1964 [[Pulitzer Prize for History]].<ref name=”BrennanClarage1999″>{{cite book|author1=Elizabeth A. Brennan|author2=Elizabeth C. Clarage|title=Who’s Who of Pulitzer Prize Winners|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=63nvmt4HqTEC&pg=PA303|year=1999|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-1-57356-111-2|pages=303–}}</ref><ref name=”Powell2011″>{{cite book|author=Sumner Chilton Powell|title=Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=px6zviStQlwC|date=1 May 2011|publisher=Wesleyan University Press|isbn=978-0-8195-7268-4}}</ref><ref name=Pulitzer-1964>{{cite web | url=http://www.pulitzer.org/awards/1964 | title=Pulitzer Prize 1964 Winners | publisher=The Pulitzer Prizes | website=www.pulitzer.org | accessdate=14 April 2015}}</ref><ref name=”JSTOR363122″> {{cite journal |title= Reviewed Work: Puritan Village, the Formation of a New England Town by Sumner Chilton Powell |author= Peter Laslett |journal= The New England Quarterly |volume= 36 |number= 4 |date= December 1963 |pages= 546–548 |doi= 10.2307/363122 |jstor= 363122 }} </ref> It minutely examines the records of [[Sudbury, Massachusetts]] from 1638-1660 to show how the [[town]] developed mainly from emigrants from [[Watertown, Massachusetts]], tracing every settler back to [[England]], concluding that there were no typical “[[English ethnicity|English]]” towns and no typical “[[Puritan]]s”.

””’Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town””’ is a nonfiction history book by American historian [[Sumner Chilton Powell]] published in 1963 by [[Wesleyan University Press]], which won the 1964 [[Pulitzer Prize for History]].<ref name=”BrennanClarage1999″>{{cite book|author1=Elizabeth A. Brennan|author2=Elizabeth C. Clarage|title=Who’s Who of Pulitzer Prize Winners|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=63nvmt4HqTEC&pg=PA303|year=1999|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-1-57356-111-2|pages=303–}}</ref><ref name=”Powell2011″>{{cite book|author=Sumner Chilton Powell|title=Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=px6zviStQlwC|date=1 May 2011|publisher=Wesleyan University Press|isbn=978-0-8195-7268-4}}</ref><ref name=Pulitzer-1964>{{cite web | url=http://www.pulitzer.org/awards/1964 | title=Pulitzer Prize 1964 Winners | publisher=The Pulitzer Prizes | website=www.pulitzer.org | accessdate=14 April 2015}}</ref><ref name=”JSTOR363122″>{{cite journal |title= Reviewed Work: Puritan Village, the Formation of a New England Town by Sumner Chilton Powell |author= Peter Laslett |journal= The New England Quarterly |volume= 36 |number= 4 |date= December 1963 |pages= 546–548 |doi= 10.2307/363122 |jstor= 363122 }}</ref> It minutely examines the records of [[Sudbury, Massachusetts]] from 1638-1660 to show how the [[town]] developed mainly from emigrants from [[Watertown, Massachusetts]], tracing every settler back to [[England]], concluding that there were no typical “[[English ethnicity|English]]” towns and no typical “[[Puritan]]s”.

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