Her father preached a more softened form of Puritanism that reflected the growth of more diverse religious practices of the Great Awakening period of early 1740s. Perhaps these ideas of Great Awakening and even more so of the Enlightenment, influenced Abigail's more independent mind and analytical spirit. ... Mary Todd rarely experienced or observed discipline and reserved conduct in Lexington's contradicting setting of frontier violence, slave mistreatment and personal abandonments. ...

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