One Colonial Woman's World: The Life and Writings of Mehetabel Chandler Coit

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noteS Introduction 1. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650–1750 (new York: Vintage, 1991), 5; Carole berkin, First Generations: Women in Colonial America (new York: hill and Wang, 1996), 28; Mary beth norton, “Getting to the Source: hetty Shepard, dorothy dudley, and other Fictional Colonial Women i have Come to know altogether too Well,” Journal of Women’s History 10, no. 3 (autumn 1998): 149. 2. Peter benes, “another Look at Madam knight,” in In Our Own Words: New England Diaries, 1600 to the Present, Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife Annual Proceedings, 2006/2007, 2 vols., ed. Peter benes (boston University, 2009). Mary beth norton has written about other inauthentic colonial women’s diaries in “Getting to the Source.” 3. Lyle koehler, A Search for Power: The “Weaker Sex” in Seventeenth­Century New England (Urbana: University of illinois Press, 1980), 69; estelle Jelinek, The Tradition of Women’s Autobiography : From Antiquity to the Present (boston: twayne, 1986), 59; kirsten e. Phimister, “‘a Loving Mother and obedient Wife’: White Women in Colonial america,” in British Colonial America: People and Perspectives (Perspectives in Social history), ed. John a. Grigg (Santa barbara, Calif.: abC-CLio, 2008). A Note about the Diary 1. Steven kagle, American Diary Literature, 1620–1799 (boston: twayne, 1979), 29; Steven kagle, Early Nineteenth­Century American Diary Literature (boston: twayne, 1986), 2. 2. david d. hall, Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early New England (Cambridge: harvard University Press, 1990), 114, 82; kagle, American Diary Literature, 147. 3. kagle, American Diary Literature, 28; John demos, A Little Commonwealth: Family Life in Plymouth Colony (new York: oxford University Press, 1970), 13; John Marshall diary, Massachusetts historical Society. 4. kagle, American Diary Literature, 16, 28, 185. 5. hall, Worlds of Wonder, 32; e. Jennifer Monaghan, Learning to Read and Write in Early America (amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2005), 42; Mary beth norton, “Getting to the Source: hetty Shepard, dorothy dudley, and other Fictional Colonial Women i have Come to know altogether too Well,” Journal ofWomen’s History 10, no. 3 (autumn 1998): 149. 6. elizabeth Chandler to Mehetabel Chandler Coit, June 1, 1698, Gilman Family Papers, Manuscripts and archives, Yale University Library (hereafter cited as GFP). 219 220 Notes to Pages xxiii–6 7. Janet Theophano, Eat My Words: Reading Women’s Lives through the Cookbooks They Wrote (new York: Palgrave, 2002), 163; tamara Plakins Thornton, Handwriting in America: A Cultural History (new haven: Yale University Press, 1996), 23, 38. 8. Margo Culley, A Day at a Time: The Diary Literature of American Women from 1764 to the Present (new York: Feminist Press of the City University of new York, 1985), 13, 4. 9. Judy nolte temple, “Fragments as diary: Theoretical implications of the Dreams and Visions of “baby doe” tabor,” in Inscribing the Daily: Critical Essays on Women’s Diaries, ed. Suzanne bunkers and Cynthia ann huff (amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1996), 76. 1. The Years before the Diary, 1673–1688 1. William Wood, New England’s Prospect, ed. alden t. Vaughan (amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1994), 58; ellen d. Larned, History of Windham County, Connecticut, 1600–1760, 2 vols., ed. Leigh Grossman (Pomfret, Conn.: Swordsmith Productions, 2000), 1:13. 2. G. andrews Moriarty, “Genealogical research in england: ancestry of William Chandler of roxbury, Massachusetts,” New England Historical and Genealogical Register 85 (1931): 143; Gloria L. Main, Peoples of a Spacious Land: Families and Cultures in Colonial New England (Cambridge: harvard University Press, 2001), 46. 3. records of the First Church of roxbury, The Records of the Churches of Boston, comp. robert J. dunkle and ann S. Lainhart, Cd-roM (boston: new england historic Genealogical Society, 2002). 4. Marylynn Salmon, Women and the Law of Property in Early America (Chapel hill: University of north Carolina Press, 1986), 143. 5. dane was a very pious man, according to his son John by his first marriage. in his autobiographical narrative, “a declaration of remarkabell Provedenses in the Corse of My Lyfe,” the younger dane recounts how his father and mother based their decision to come to new england on a sign from God. John junior writes that he was the first in the family with the desire to emigrate, but that his parents originally opposed the idea. With the hope of settling the matter, he picked up a bible that happened to be lying nearby, blindly pointed to a passage , and told his...