1. J. K. Jue, ‘Puritan Millenarianism in Old and New England’, in J. Coffey and P. C. Lim (eds), The Cambridge Companion to Puritanism (Cambridge, 2008), pp. 259–76.
2. C. Gribben, Evangelical Millennialism in the Trans-Atlantic World, 1500–2000 (Basingstoke, 2011), pp. 20–50.
3. The first Plymouth Colony was originally founded as a ‘partnership’ with a ‘common course and condition’. Contemporary sermons indicate the New Testament precedent of the Apostle Paul’s teachings on charity and shared sacrifice were more influential than conditions described in Acts; D. S. Lovejoy, ‘Plain Englishmen at Plymouth’, New England Quarterly 63 (1990), pp. 232–48.
4. For a notable revisionist view of Puritan discipline and asceticism, see Theodore Dwight Bozeman, The Precisionist Strain: Disciplinary Religion and Antinomian Backlash in Puritanism to 1638 (Chapel Hill, NC, 2004).
5. T. J. Saxby, The Quest for the New Jerusalem: Jean de Labadie and the Labadists, 1610–1744 (Dordrecht, 1987). An earlier group of Dutch Mennonites, led by a Socinian, Pieter Cornelius Plockhoy, formed a short-lived community in the Valley of the Swans up the Delaware River in 1663. This community is often cited as America’s first ‘utopian community’. However, its brief existence (it was destroyed by the British navy in 1664) makes it difficult to relate to any broader historical trend.