Chronicles of the first planters of the colony of Massachusetts Bay, 1623-1636 / now first collected from original records and contemporaneous manuscripts, and illustrated with notes, by Alexander Young.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Young, Alexander, 1800-1854.

Series:

Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926.

Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Massachusetts--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Massachusetts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 571, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates (1 fold.) ) ill., fold. map, port. ;

Place of Publication:

Boston : C.C. Little and J. Brown, 1846 (Freeman and Bolles)

Contents:

White's brief relation

Hubbard's narrative

The Company's records

Gov. Cradock's letter to Captain Endicott

The Company's instructions to Endicott and his council

The company's agreement with the ministers

Higginson's journal of his voyage to New-England

Francis Higginson's New-England's plantation

General considerations for planting New-England

The agreement at Cambridge

The Company's letters to Higginson and Endicott

The humble request

Dudley's letter to the Countess of Lincoln

Roger Clap's memoirs

The Charlestown records

William Wood's description of Massachusetts

John Cotton's life and letters

Richard Mather's journal

Anthony Thacher's narrative of his shipwreck

Thomas Shepard's memoir of his own life.

Notes:

Includes index.

Publisher's advertising: [1] p., 3rd count.

Reproduction of original from The American Antiquarian Society.

Sabin no. 106052.

Includes bibliographical references.

OCLC:

11