The chief authorities for this book have been the memoir of
Jonathan Edwards by Sereno E. Dwight ( New York, 1829),
published as the first volume to a ten volume edition of Edwards's
collected works; and J. H. Trumbull History of Northampton
( Northampton, 1902). Three other biographies of Edwards have
been published: a personal sketch by Edwards's friend Samuel
Hopkins ( Boston, 1762); a short life by Samuel Miller ( New
York, 1854), which is merely a summary of Dwight; and a study
of Edwards as a theologian by Alexander V. G. Allen ( Boston,
1890).

The description of New England life and religion is drawn
from many sources--newspapers, pamphlets, sermons, town his-
tories, church records, diaries, and letters--which in a book of
this kind it is unnecessary to specify in detail. Thanks to the
generosity of the University of Michigan in appointing me to a
Lloyd Fellowship for the year 1929-30, I hope to publish shortly
a study of New England Puritanism. As this biography is written
for the general reader, I have made generalizations and guessed
at motives and mental processes with more confidence than would
be allowable in a work of scholarship.

Some of the material of this biography was used in an article
on " New England in the Seventeen Thirties," published in "The
New England Quarterly," 1930, July. Acknowledgments are also
due to the editors of the "Quarterly" for allowing me to quote
from the letter to Bellamy and from the diary of Esther Burr.

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