1712 BENJAMIN WADSWORTH. The Well-Ordered Family. Rare Early American Puritan! Missionary Chinese Government ordered everyone to

Chinese Government ordered everyone to observe the New Calendar

flowed out of that singular legislative idea

Of specific interest is content on wives

on the whole

1712 BENJAMIN WADSWORTH. The Well-Ordered Family. Rare Early American Puritan! Missionary Chinese Government ordered everyone toVery rare title by Benjamin Wadsworth [1670 1737], an influential Colonial era American Puritan who pastored concurrently and was friends with Cotton Mather. Edmund S. Morgan, one of the most important American Puritan scholars, notes the present work as one of the most influential and signficant documents articulating the puritan ethic of home and family in its original theological and devotional context. Probably not as a coincidence, the same year