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

Of the more than one hundred families that affiliated with the Harwich, Massachusetts, church between 1700 and 1740, three-quarters presented at least one child for baptism within a month’s time.