If you want to read an excellent book on the Puritans and the culture of New England-- read: ALBION'S SEED: by David Hackett Fischer It is a fancastic book--anyone with ancestors prior to 1700 in Massachsetts Bay Colony this book is a MUST READ. It is one of the best history books I have ever read......each chapter has it's own heading with small headings to make reading much easier and interesting. I have been reading this with a yellow highlighter at my side as much of what is in this book relates to all of 35 ancestors who were here by 1640 and they lived this.......fascinating !!! Cynthia Desc.of Elizabeth Jackson Howe, hanged 19 July 1692 Rick Rusinak wrote: > I just finished reading > A Break With Charity - A Story About the Salem Witch Trials > copyright 1992 by Ann Rinaldi. > Paperback; 284 pages. > > This book is historical fiction. The situations are fictional but possible; > the characters are real and based on historical fact. > > The book provided me with a picture of everyday life in Puritan New England > and a plausible explanation for the hysteria of 1692. > > I was especially interested to have ancestors that I know were involved in > the trial come to life in this book. > > I also appreciated the "Author's Note" at the end of the book wherein Ann > separates the fiction from the fact in her book. The book includes a > bibliography. > > I recommend the book to anyone with an interest in the Salem witch trials > and especially to anyone with ancestral connections to those events. > > Rick Rusinak > [email protected] > http://www.isd.net/rrusinak/ > Researching Surnames: BRADBURY_BRIDGES_BRUCE_CLARK_DANE_ELLIS_FOSTER_FOX > FULTON_GASPER_GIBSON_HASEY_HOWE_HORTON_JACKSON_KERR_LEGUS_LEPINGWELL_LOGAN > MARSTON_McCELLAN_MILLER_MOODY_MURDOCH_MURPHY_MYERS_PERKINS_RUSINAK_SHANKS > SMITH_TYLER_WHITE