To 1635 : pre-contact and exploration
Arrival : first settlement, 1635
Working the land, gathering the church
Autonomy : power over its own affairs
The Passaconnaway Affair, 1642
Travel : roads and ferries
Growth and change : a new town center, 1642-1646
Resettlement : land records from memory, 1646-1650
Civic order : keeping the peace
Schism : Woodman v. Parker 1665-1675
King Philip's War and its aftermath
The witch and the wizard, 1679
The port, Plum Island, and the poor
Newbury militiamen in the field, 1700-1710
Dissenting dissenters : Anglican again
Expansion and the great awakening
Moses Titcomb at Louisburg, 1745
The end of an era : 1764 and after.
