Good and Comfortable Words

Thanks to coded notes taken by the teenager John Pynchon, this volume transports the reader, virtually, back to Sundays in the seventeenth century, when the community gathered to listen to the Rev. George Moxon. The setting was Springfield, Massachusetts, founded in 1636 by John''s father William Pynchon. As a note-taker, John recorded just what he heard in this rare resource, which allows the rea...