Statistics for occurrence #1 of “New England” in chapter 20, page 162 of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book:
...he clergy existed to fill all the posts of leadership.
There was no separate legal profession, for instance; and Chief Justice Sewall—whose racy journals make him the more sombre Pepys of the New England Colonial period—was educated for the ministry and took a seat on the bench by way of collateral pursuit, precisely as he accepted the command of the Ancient and Honorable
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