Making War and Minting Christians: Masculinity, Religion, and Colonialism in Early New England

Acknowledgments

z xi Acknowledgments I hav e b e n e f i t e d from the generosity of numerous institutions. Boston College supported my research through several years of fellowships My research and writing was also supported by a Short-Term Residential Fellowship from the Newberry Library; a Research Fellowship from The John Nicholas Brown Center for the Study of American Civilization at Brown University; and a W. M. Keck Foundation Fellowship from the Huntington Library. The expert staffs at all of these institutions made my workalltheeasierandenjoyable.APhillipsFundGrantforNativeAmerican Research from the American Philosophical Society generously funded a research trip to the Guildhall Library in London, where the staff was welcoming and helpful. The University of Houston supported my work through a New Faculty Research Grant and two Small Grants for Research as well as through a junior faculty leave. Many hardworking librarians and archivists made my work possible. I am grateful to the staffs of the following institutions for their expertise: the O’Neill Library at Boston College; the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester,Massachusetts;theJohnCarterBrownandJohnHay Librariesat Brown University; the Rhode Island Historical Society; the Morse Institute Library and the Bacon Free Library in Natick, Massachusetts; the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University; and the Peabody MuseumofArchaeologyandEthnologyatHarvardUniversity.Iowespecial thanks to the staff of the Massachusetts Historical Society, especially Peter Drummey, Conrad Wright, and my longtime friend Nancy Heywood. MHS xii y acknowledgments became a home for me while I was in graduate school and has continued to welcome me back as I begin to work on new projects. At the University of Houston, the M. D. Anderson Library staff—especially Alex Simons and theprofessionalsintheInterlibraryLoanoffice—madetherevisionprocess much easier. Portions of chapters 1, 3, 4, and 10 appeared in a different form in “‘Ranging Foresters’ and ‘Women-Like Men’: Physical Accomplishment, Spiritual Power, and Indian Masculinity in Early Seventeenth-Century New England,” Ethnohistory 53:2 (2006): 281–329, and are reprinted with thejournal’spermission.Partsofchapters1,3,and6werepublishedearlierin “ColonizingChildhood:Religion,Gender,andIndianChildreninSouthern New England, 1600–1720,” in Children in Colonial America, ed. James Alan Marten (New York: New York University Press, 2007), and are reprinted in altered form with the permission of New York University Press. A section of chapter 8 originally appeared in “Totherswamp’s Lament: Christian Indian Fathers and Sons in Early Massachusetts,” Journal of Family History 33:1(2008):5–12,aspartofthe“ForumonRaceandtheFamilyintheUnited States: The Other(s),” and is reprinted with the permission of the Journal of Family History. At Boston College I was fortunate to have the support and guidance of gifted mentors: Alan Rogers, Cynthia Lyerly, David Quigley, Virginia Reinburg, Stephen Schloesser, Crystal Feimster, Robin Fleming, and James O’Toole. Edward Rugemer has long been a steady friend and critical reader of my work. My fellow graduate students Brandy Parris, Kelly Ryan, Libby MacDonald Bishof, Stephanie Kermes, Dolly Smith-Wilson, Ken Shelton, Andrew Finstuen, Jason Cavallari, Jennifer Cote, Doreen Drury, Chris Hannan, and Michael Mezzano offered useful advice along the way. Ihavebenefitedgreatlyfromthecriticalfeedbackofnumerous colleagues. I thank Rebecca Ann Bach, Emerson Baker, Brian Carroll, Joan Cashin, Andrea Robertson Cremer, Cornelia Dayton, Linford Fisher, Evan Haefeli, Desiree Martinez, Alice Nash, Michael Nassaney, Jon Parmenter, Ann Plane, Carolyn Podruchny, Jenny Hale Pulsipher, Neal Salisbury, Erik Seeman , Karen Spalding, Jennifer Spear, Laura Stevens, Wendy St. Jean, John Wood Sweet, Samuel Truett, Kyle Volk, and Michael Volmar. Both Nancy Shoemaker and Ann Little have been extremely generous in offering critiques and encouragement for many years now. I am especially indebted to Ann for critical readings at early stages and of the penultimate draft of the manuscript. David Silverman—who served as an anonymous reviewer but acknowledgments z xiii later revealed his identity—offered incisive comments that proved invaluable to my revisions. Heather Miyano Kopelson and Rebecca Goetz have been extraordinarily supportive colleagues and friends over the years. That Rebecca and I both landed in Houston has been a special boon. I thank her for reading, and in some cases rereading, every chapter. I am also grateful that my favorite food critic, Alison Cook, read several chapters and gave me much useful advice over dinner. The University of Houston History Department has been a welcoming and supportive place to work. For their encouragement, I am indebted to Kathleen Brosnan, Steven Deyle, Frank Holt, Philip Howard, Susan Kellogg , Kairn Klieman, James Kirby Martin, Martin Melosi, Steven Mintz, Thomas O’Brien, Joseph Pratt, Guadalupe San Miguel, Landon Storrs, Eric Walther,andNancyBeckYoung.MichaelObergrecentlyarrivedoncampus...