Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Abbreviations xi
5. Introduction: Social Diversity and Social Change in Seventeenth-Century NewEngland xv
6. Chapter 1. A Company Town 1
7. Chapter 2. Dominance 17
8. Chapter 3. Land 44
9. Chapter 4. Work 72
10. Chapter 5. Community 123
11. Chapter 6. Decline of the Gentry, 1684—1703 151
12. Epilogue. Springfield, John Pynchonf and New England Society 171
13. Index 185