This was so because of his elaborate use of sources from the 1600’s throughout his book, A Little Commonwealth: Family Life in Plymouth Colony. In order to make old evidence worthwhile to readers of the 20th and 21st centuries, Demos compiled information on the physical setting in Plymouth Colony, as well as the structure of the colony’s households. He was able to effectively relay the messages of his research to the minds of others by using sources from the words of actual Mayflower descendents, Plymouth Colony court and transaction records, and primary sources that he studied while directly visiting Plymouth himself. All in all, I thought A Little Commonwealth: Family Life in Plymouth Colony by John Demos was a great read and it truly taught me numerous facts about life in Plymouth Colony during the 1600’s that I never had heard
This was so because of his elaborate use of sources from the 1600’s throughout his book, A Little Commonwealth: Family Life in Plymouth Colony. In order to make old evidence worthwhile to readers of the 20th and 21st centuries, Demos compiled information on the physical setting in Plymouth Colony, as well as the structure of the colony’s households. He was able to effectively relay the messages of his research to the minds of others by using sources from the words of actual Mayflower descendents, Plymouth Colony court and transaction records, and primary sources that he studied while directly visiting Plymouth himself. All in all, I thought A Little Commonwealth: Family Life in Plymouth Colony by John Demos was a great read and it truly taught me numerous facts about life in Plymouth Colony during the 1600’s that I never had heard