The author to her book 49
Before the birth of one of her children 50
To my dear and loving husband 50
A letter to her husband, absent upon public employment 51
In memory of my dear grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet, who deceased august, 1665 Being a year and a half old 51
Upon burning of our house, July 10th, 1666 52
Puritanism 55
SAMUEL SEWALL (1652-1730) 58
The Diary of Samuel Sewall 59
[Customs, courts and courtships] 59
EDWARD TAYLOR 91642-1729) 69
The Preface 71
Meditation 1, First Series 72
Upon wedlock, and death of children 72
Huswifery 73
Meditation 8, first series 74
The glory of and grace in the church set out 75
Upon a spider catching a fly 76
[TWO MEDITATIONS ON "THE SONG OF SOLOMON," CANTICLE VI] 77
Meditation 142, Second Series 77
Meditation 146, Second series 78
COTTON MATHER (1663-1728) 79
The wonders of the invisible world 81
Enchantments encountered 81
The trial of Bridget bishop 83
A third curiosity 87
The south and the middle colonies 89
WILLIAM BYRD (1674-1744) 92
The history of the dividing line 93
[Indian Neighbors] 93
A progress to the mines 95
[Reading a play in the backwoods] 95
JOHN WOOLMAN (1720-1772) 97
The journal of john woolman 99
1720-1742 [Early years] 99
1757 [Evidence of divine truth] 106
1755-1758 [Taxes and Wars] 106