1. John Davenport, recalling a report from John Cotton in the 1630s; quoted in Francis J. Bremer, Building a New Jerusalem: John Davenport, a Puritan in Three Worlds (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012), 339.
2. William Bradford, History of Plymouth Plantation, 1620–1647, two volumes (Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1912), I, 402–3.
3. Mark A. Peterson, “The Plymouth Church and the Evolution of Puritan Religious Culture,” The New England Quarterly, 66 (December 1993), 575–6. Peterson provides an excellent analysis of the church, stressing the extent to which it was dominated by the laity in its early years.
4. For Endecott see Francis J. Bremer, First Founders: American Puritans and Puritanism in the Atlantic World (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2012), 29–44.
5. Raymond Phineas Stearns and David Holmes Brawner, “New England Church ‘Relations’ and Continuity in Early Congregational History,” Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, 75 (1965), 24.