Darkness Falls on the Land of Light: Experiencing Religious Awakenings in Eighteenth-Century New England (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early ... and the University of North Carolina Press)

by Douglas L. Winiarski

446 parents from 340 families in Beverly, Massachusetts, between 1702 and 1765 found that 52 percent brought children for baptism the same day that they covenanted with the church,