liams: A Documentary Life, ed. Wyllis E. Wright (Pittsfield, Mass.: Berskire County
Notes to Pages 377–87 ∑πΩ
Carson, Ronald Ho√man, and Peter J. Albert, eds., Of Consuming Interests: The Style of Life in the Eighteenth Century (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1994).
7. Edmund S. Morgan, The Gentle Puritan: A Life of Ezra Stiles, 1727–1795 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1962), 81.
8. Reprinted in Hopkins, Historical Memoirs, 107–11. 9. Frazier, Mohicans of Stockbridge, 96–97, 101. 10. Hopkins, Historical Memoirs, 145–54. Frazier, Mohicans of Stockbridge, 85, sets the number of English families at ten, which seems more reliable than the twelve or thirteen Hopkins estimates.
11. See Frazier, Mohicans of Stockbridge, 82–88, for account of Indian complaints prior to Edwards' arrival.
12. The following account and its documentation depends largely on Edmund Morgan's wonderful chapter 5, ''Abigail'' in Morgan, Ezra Stiles, 78–89. ''More ways than one'' is borrowed from p. 85. Morgan's volume is an example of biography at its best. Extracts from the exchange of letters between Stiles and Abigail Sergeant are found in The Literary Diary of Ezra Stiles, 3 vols., ed. Franklin B. Dexter (New York: Scribner's, 1901), 1: 210–11.
13. Edwards to Secretary Andrew Oliver, February 10, 1752, Works, 16: 424. 14. Kevin Sweeney, ''River Gods and Related Minor Deities: The Williams Family and the Connecticut River Valley, 1637–1790'' (Ph.D. diss., Yale University, 1986), 464–65.
15. Edwards to Sir William Pepperrell, January 30, 1753, Works, 16: 555. 16. Abigail Sergeant to Ezra Stiles, February 15, 1751, Stiles Papers, quoted in Iain Murray, Jonathan Edwards: A New Biography (Carlisle, Pa.: Banner of Truth Trust, 1988), 362. 17. Ephraim Williams Jr. to Jonathan Ashley, May 2, 1751, in Colonel Ephraim Williams: A Documentary Life, ed. Wyllis E. Wright (Pittsfield, Mass.: Berskire County Historical Society, 1970), 61–62.
18. Sweeney, ''River Gods,'' 465–66. He also had Elijah do his preparatory studies with the strict Edward Billings of Cold Spring, one of Edwards' firmest supporters in the communion controversy, who soon lost his own pulpit for similar reasons.
19. Frazier, Mohicans of Stockbridge, xi, 117, 234–45. Cf. Alan Taylor, William Cooper's Town (New York: Vintage, 1995), 36, 19–40, 56. Eventually the Stockbridge moved again to Wisconsin. Cooper's history, like his portrayals of Indians, was very inexact. His ''Mohicans'' were a fictional composite, probably including some Mahican elements. For a critique of a too-close identification of the Mahicans of Stockbridge with Cooper's Mohicans, see the review of Frazier, Mohicans of Stockbridge, by Daniel K. Richter, Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 119, nos. 1/2 (January/April 1995): 151–53.
20. Frazier, Mohicans of Stockbridge, 98–99. 21. Edwards to Speaker Thomas Hubbard, August 31, 1751, Works, 16: 394–98. 22. Ibid., 398. On Hendrick, see Milton W. Hamilton, Sir William Johnson: Colonial American, 1715–1763 (Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press, 1976). The weather is from The Diary of Ebenezer Parkman, 1703–1782 (Worcester, Mass.: American Antiquarian Society, 1974), 242, August 13, 1751 (''hot weather''), August 15–16 (''exceeding rainy and stormy'' through the morning). Presumably the same system earlier went through Stockbridge, just a hundred miles to the west.
23. ''To the Mohawks at the Treaty, August 16, 1751,'' in Wilson H. Kimnach et al., eds., The Sermons of Jonathan Edwards: A Reader (New Haven: Yale University Press,