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11. The average age for women to marry was about twenty-three and for men twentysix. David Hackett Fischer, Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989), 76.
12. James Pierpont apparently was not still a full-time tutor, but he was paid by the college for his services until March 20, 1725. Proceedings of the Trustees, April 20, 1725, in Dexter, ed., Documentary History, 258.
13. Miscellany no. 193, Works, 13: 334, dated July or August 1725. 14. Miscellanies nos. 188 and 182, Works, 13: 331, 329, cf. 328 re ''ravishing,'' above. Cf. ''The Beauty of the World,'' Reader, 14–15, written around this time, which is similar to Miscellany no. 108, quoted at the end of the previous chapter. On the Edwardses and singing in four-part harmonies, see chapter 8, below.
15. Miscellany no. 189, Works, 13: 331–32. In an earlier miscellany, no. 37, 220, written in East Windsor in summer 1723, Jonathan expressed very conventional views of proper gender roles. Men had ''more wisdom strength and courage, fit to protect and defend; but he [God] has made woman weaker, more soft and tender, more fearful, and more a√ectionate, as a fit object of generous protection and defense.'' These reflections were on the nature of Christ's love for the church.
16. A Spiritual Understanding (1723–24), Works, 14: 87. 17. Diary, November 16, 1725. Cf. July 27, 1723, October 5, 1724. Since the diaries were published and probably edited by Edwards' admirers, we may not have a complete record of his struggles with these matters.
18. Diary, September 2, 1724. Cf. September 30, where he indicates that he gave up the diet for a time but resolved to resume it.
19. Jonathan's account of the experiences of Sarah, whose anonymity he guards, is in Some Thoughts Concerning the Present Revival of Religion in New England (1742), Works, 4, quotations from p. 333. See also chapter 15, below.
20. Diary, November 16, 1725. 21. Timothy Edwards to Esther Edwards, November 10, 1725, ANTS, quoted in Kenneth Minkema, ''The Edwardses: A Ministerial Family in Eighteenth-Century New England'' (Ph.D. diss., University of Connecticut, 1988), 186–87. Timothy Edwards to Esther Edwards, October 11, 1725 and October 20, 1725, ANTS, confirm the seriousness of the concern, especially by mid-October. I am grateful to George Claghorn for his transcriptions of these letters.
22. Miscellany no. 198, Works, 13: 336–37. 23. ''Personal Narrative,'' Works, 16: 789. Trustees, September 13, 1726, in Dexter, ed., Documentary History, 267, indicates a vote to pay his back salary, not an ordinary piece of business. Later Edwards had perennial salary disputes in Northampton.
24. Schafer, ''Editor's Introduction,'' Works, 13: 18n. 25. James R. Trumbull, History of Northampton, Massachusetts, from Its Settlement in 1654, 2 vols. (Northampton, Mass., 1898, 1902), 2: 43–45. Schafer, ''Editor's Introduction,'' Works, 13: 18–19. Schafer writes he arrived in October, though Trumbull says that he was already voted a month's salary in August. Perhaps the salary was an advance, if indeed he had not yet been paid at Yale for the year (see above).
26. I am indebted to George Claghorn for this information and his interpretation, based on his examination of a sermon fragment at Beinecke from a Stockbridge Indian sermon Seeking the Heavenly Canaan.