Massachusetts Family Ways:
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The builders of the Bay Colony also created special forms of family life which were as distinctive as their speech and architecture. The Puritans were deeply self-conscious in their familial acts. They wrote at length about the family, in a literature of prescription which was remarkably consistent with actual conditions in their households. The people of Massachusetts thought of the family not as an end in itself, but as an instrument of their highest religious purposes. The Puritan writer Jonathan Mitchell declared, "a Christian may and ought to desire many things as means, but God alone as his end."" This was their way of thinking about the family in particular, which was also described as "the root whence church and commonwealth cometh." Concern for the family in this culture was also given a special intensity by an attitude which historian Edmund Morgan calls "Puritan tribalism," that is, the Hebraic idea that the founders of New England were God's chosen people. The Puritans were encouraged by their ministers to think of themselves as "the saints," and to believe that grace descended to their children. John Cotton explained this process in explicitly genealogical terms: "The Covenant of God is, I will be thy God, and the God of thy seed after thee," he wrote. The Puritan minister William Stoughton went even farther. He prophesied, “...the books that shall be opened at the last day will contain Genealogies among them. There shall be brought forth a Register of the Genealogies of New-England's sons and daughters." This obsession with family and genealogy became an enduring part of New England's culture. Two centuries after the great migration, Harriet Beecher Stowe observed:
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