Abstract
NEW HAVEN, wrote Perry Miller, the essence of Puritanism, distilled and undefiled, the Bible Commonwealth and nothing else.' The physical plan for this exceptional colony, as it was laid out in 1638, had a likewise remarkable form (Figs. i and z). A perfect square set between two creeks was divided into nine smaller squares. Eight of these were subdivided into house lots, while the central square served at once as marketplace, training field, water source, and site for the meetinghouse. Between one corner of the large square and the harbor were two smaller areas for house lots, known as suburbs, while the outlands surrounding the town were divided up for farm and pasture land.
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