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All this confirmed by erecting of hands.
Mr. Walgrave, Mr. Pelham, and Mr. Humphry, and Mr. Nowell, are entreated to frame the form of the oath for the Governor, Mr. Endicott, and also for his Deputy, and for the Council,4 which shall be sent over and be administered to them in New-Eng- land.
May 7.
Thursday, the 7th May, 1629. Present,
THE GOVERNOR,
MR. COULSON,
MR. DEPUTY,
MR. NOWELL,
MR. ALDERSEY,
MR. HUMPHRY,
MR. ADAMS,
MR. THO. PULYSTON.
MR. HUTCHINS,
The last Court was read, and confirmed by these present.
1 Some words in this and the pre- ceding paragraph, torn off or oblite- rated in the manuscript, I have been enabled to restore from the "Form of Government," sent over to Endi- cott, and which embodies the sub- stance and often the language of this day's record.
These Acts and Orders for the settling the Government, will be found in a subsequent part of this volume.
3 They wished to anticipate Old- ham in his contemplated settlement in Massachusetts Bay. For this purpose the Company's instructions to Endicott were despatched by the George about a fortnight before the sailing of the other ships which car- ried out Higginson and his com- pany.
4 These oaths will also be found in a subsequent part of this volume.
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JOHN OLDHAM'S PATENT.
A form of an oath for the Governor beyond the CHAP. seas, and of an oath for the Council there, was drawn III. and delivered to Mr. Humphry to show the Council.1 1629. Letters are to be written about lands to be allotted May 7. to each adventurer.
Also, about Mr. Fra. Webb's business for a mill, &c.
To have those punished beyond seas that sell guns.
To have some men's lands laid together.
The 11th of May, 1629.
Present this day, 11
MR. DEPUTY,
MR. HUMFREYS,
MR. TREASURER,
MR. VASSALL,
SIR RICHARD SALTONSTALL,
MR. PETERS,2
MR. ADAMS,
MR. PINCHON,
MR. NOWELL,
MR. WHYTE.
MR. HUTCHINS,
This day Mr. Oldham propounded unto Mr. White, that he would have his patent examined ; and it is agreed by the Court not to have any treaty with him about it, by reason it is thought he doth it not out of love, but out of some sinister respect.
A warrant delivered unto Mr. Seale for ten dozen and two hats, at 2s. per dozen, for the sum of 20s. 4d.
.
1 The Privy Council. early as May 30, 1628. See Hutch- inson's Mass. i. 9.
2 This was the celebrated Hugh Peters. He was in the Company as
70
FIRST ELECTION DAY.
CHAP. III.
The 13th of May, 1629.1
Present this day,
THE GOVERNOR,
MR. PINCHON,
MR. DEPUTY,
MR. HUTCHINS,
MR. TREASURER,
MR. HEWSON,
MR. GLOVER,
MR. BACKHOUSE, -
SIR RICHARD SALTONSTALL,
MR. BALLARD,
MR. ADAMS,
MR. CROWTHER,
MR. OFFIELD,
MR. WHICHCOTE,
MR. WHETCOMBE,
MR. WHITE,
MR. FOXCROFT,
MR. PETERS,
MR. VASSALL,
MR. CRANE,
MR. PERRY,
MR. HUMPHRY.
MR. NOWELL,
Delivered a warrant unto Richard Bowry for twelve pounds, £12, as 2 parts of £18, the other } being to be paid for the Governor, and is for his appren- tice, Robert Seale, his time.
Mr. Matthew Cradock is this day chosen by the consent of the generality of the Company to be Gov- ernor to the New-England Company for the year following ; Mr. Thomas Goffe,2 Deputy ; also, Mr. George Harwood,3 Treasurer to the said Company.
1 " Hubbard styles this the second court of election, when by the royal charter it is the first; though by virtue of the former patent from the New-England Council, it seems the Company had chosen a governor, &c. the year before." Prince, Annals, p. 260; Hubbard, in Mass. Hist. Coll. xv. 122.
2 Goffe was a London merchant, and had been previously engaged in furthering the Colony at New Ply- mouth. His name occurs frequently in Winthrop's Journal. See Mass. Hist. Coll. iii. 48.
3 I find the name of George Har- wood, citizen of London, in the list of the twelve feofees into whose
hands was paid the money raised in 1624 for buying up impropriations and supporting "lecturers " or preachers in destitute places in England. Two other members of the Massachusetts Company, John White, the lawyer, and the Rev. John Davenport, afterwards of New Haven and Boston, were among these feofees. They were sup- pressed and ruined by Laud in 1633. A good account of their purpose may be found in Carlyle's Cromwell, i. 50, 70, 88, (Am. edit.) See Brook's Lives of the Puritans, i. 75, and Neal's Hist. of the Puritans, ii. 248.
1629. May 13.
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OFFICERS OF THE COMPANY CHOSEN.
The Assistants being this day to be chosen, two CHAP. of the former Assistants, mentioned in the patent, III. ~ viz. Mr. John Endecott and Mr. John Browne being 1629. May .13. out of the land, the other sixteen were confirmed, viz. Sir Richard Saltonstall, Mr. Isaac Johnson, Mr. Samuel Aldersey, Mr. John Venn, Mr. John Humphry, Mr. Symon Whetcombe, Increase Nowell, Richard Perry, Nathaniel Wright, Samuel Vassall, Theophilus Eaton, Thomas Adams, Thomas Hutch- ins, George Foxcroft, William Vassall, and William Pinchion ; and to make up the number of eighteen, Mr. John Pocock and Mr. Christopher Coulson were chosen Assistants. And of these all, excepting Mr. Isaac Johnson, Samuel Aldersey, John Venn, Nathan- iel Wright, Samuel Vassall, Theophilus Eaton and Christopher Coulson, took their oaths appertaining.
William Burges, Humphry Lewis, John Wash- borne, and Lawrence Roe, being all put in election for the place of Secretary, by a free election, Mr. William Burges was chosen Secretary for the year ensuing.1
Humphry Seale chosen and sworn Beadle.
It is this day ordered, that whensoever any Court of Assistants shall be summoned, whosoever of the Assistants comes not, 'twixt 25 March and 29 of September, before eight of the clock in the morning, and from 29 September to 25 March, before 9 of the clock in the morning, shall forfeit twelve pence for every such offence ; and if he come not within two hours after either of the said hours respectively, then two shillings for every default each man to forfeit
1 Washburne, I suspect, was su- ble chirography. He certainly de- perseded on account of his illegi- served to be.
72
NAMES OF THE COMPANY'S OFFICERS.
CHAP. and pay ; and for want of payment within [blank] III. days, after demand made by the officer of the Com- 1629. pany, the fine double to be set upon his account ; May always [provided, upon the pleasure] of the Govern- 13. or, Deputy, or a lawful expression of approbation, [a line or two torn off.]
It is also agreed, that for any that shall have pri- vate conference after the Court is summoned, by the Governor or his Deputy knocking of the hammer thrice on the table, to sit down and attend the Court, that sixpence by every person for every such offence shall be paid.
It is agreed, that three pounds shall be paid John Washbourne for his pains as Secretary to the Com- pany for the time past.
The Names of the Governor, Deputy, Treasurer, and Assistants, for the year 1629, and other Officers.
MR. MATTHEW CRADOCK, Governor. MR. THOMAS GOFFE, Deputy. MR. GEORGE HARWOOD, Treasurer.
SIR RICHARD SALTONSTALL, MR. SAMUEL VASSALL,
MR. ISAAC JOHNSON,
MR. THEOPHILUS EATON,
MR. SAMUEL ALDERSEY,
MR. THOMAS ADAMS,
MR. JOHN VENN,
MR. THOMAS HUTCHINS,
MR. JOHN HUMFREY, MR. GEORGE FOXCROFT,
MR. SYMON WHETCOMBE,
MR. WILLIAM VASSALL,
MR. INCREASE NOWELL,
MR. WILLIAM PINCHION,
MR. RICHARD PERRY,
MR. JOHN POCOCK,
MR. NATHANIEL WRIGHT,
MR. CHRISTOPHER COWLSON. Assistants.
WILLIAM BURGIS, Secretary.
HUMPHREY SEALE, Beadle.
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73
GOVERNMENT OF THE COLONY.
At a Court of Assistants, on Monday, the 18th of May, CHAP. III.
1629. Present,
· MR. GOVERNOR,
MR. THOMAS ADAMS,
1629.
MR. DEPUTY,
MR. SYMON WHETCOMBE, May 18.
SIR R. SALTONSTALL,
MR. RICHARD PERRY,
MR. GEORGE HARWOOD, Treasurer, MR. JOHN POCOCK,
MR. JOHN HUMPHREY, MR. GEORGE FOXCROFT.
William Burgis, chosen by the last General Court to be Secretary for the year ensuing, was now ad- mitted and sworn accordingly ; upon the salary of twenty marks from the day he was chosen, for the said year.
The Acts made at a Court the 30th of April last, for choosing and establishing a Governor, Deputy, Council, and other Officers in New-England, was now read ; and this Court thought fit to add there- unto, that they shall be established in their said sev- eral places for one whole year, or till such time as the Company here shall think fit to choose others in the places of them, or any of them ; and that in case any of them shall depart this life before the expira- tion of the time they were so chosen for, that the Governor or Deputy and Council, at an ample Court assembled, shall have power to nominate and choose fit person or persons to succeed him or them so de- ceased in the said place or places for the residue of the time unexpired.
Upon motion made for allotment of land to the several adventurers and planters,1
Mr. Humphreys and Mr. Adams are desired to meet and consider what provisions are fit to be now
1 There appears to be something omitted here.
74
THE ALLOTMENT OF LAND.
CHAP. sent over to Captain John Indicott and his family, III.
and to provide the same accordingly.
1629.
May
18
The names of all the adventurers to be now sent over, with the several sums by them underwritten ; and it is ordered that the Governor and Council there shall have power to allot unto every particular adventurer that shall desire the same by himself or his assignees, two hundred acres of land upon the sum of £50 adventure in the general stock in this first dividend, and proportionably for more or less according to their several adventures ; and Mr. Go- vernor, Deputy, Mr. Whyte, and Mr. Adams, and Mr. Whetcombe are to meet at Mr. Governor's house1 to-morrow morning at six of the clock to ad- vise and conclude of this business.
19.
The 19th of May, 1629. [Present,]
MR. GOVERNOR, MR. WHETCOMBE,
MR. WHYTE,
MR. ADAMS.
Concerning the allotment of land to those persons as are adventurers in the common stock, it is thought fit that letters be written to the Governor to set out and allot unto them after the propo. tion of two hun- dred acres of land for £50 adventure, and after that rate for more or less, to the intent to build their houses and to improve their labors thereon. And if within ten days after their arrival, and demand made by any particular adventurer in the common stock, or his servant for him, the same be not so allotted,
1 Governor Cradock's house was in St. Swithin's Lane, near London Stone.
75
THE ALLOTMENT OF LAND.
that each man, being an adventurer, is hereby per- CHAP. mitted free liberty to build in any place where him- III. self shall think most convenient, with reservation not to build or manure that already built on or ma- nured ; provided that if the plot of ground whereon the town is intended to be built be set out, and it be publicly known to be intended for that purpose, that then no man shall presume to build his house any- where else, (unless it be in the Massachusetts Bay,1 and there according to such directions as shall be thought meet for that place.) But in case his allot- ment be not set out within the town where he shall build, and having, in his own name or in the behalf of his master, made request to the Governor to have the same assigned to him, if it be not done within ten days after his arrival, it shall be free for any in such case, being an adventurer in the common stock, to build his house within the aforesaid plot of ground, set out for the town to be built on, and to impale to his own use proportionable to half an acre of ground for £50 adventure in the common stock ; unless a greater or lesser proportion be formerly determined of by the Governor and Council ; in which case that proportion is to be made use of and appropriated to each man within the liberties of the plot set out for the town to be built on. And it is ordered, that conveyance be made in the Company's name, with the common seal of the Company to it, to any that shall desire it, for each man's peaceable enjoying of that land he holds, at the charge of the Company.
It is further thought fit and ordered, that all such
1 See note 1 on page 4.
1629. May 19.
76
THE ALLOTMENT OF LAND.
1629. May
CHAP. persons as go over at their own charge, and are ad- III. venturers in the common stock, shall have lands allotted to them for themselves and their families forthwith, fifty acres of land for each person ; but 19. being no adventurers in the common stock, shall have fifty acres of land for the master of the family, and such a proportion of land more, if there be cause, as, according to their charge and quality, the Gov- ernor and Council of New-England shall think neces- sary for them, whereby their charge may be fully and amply supported ; unless it be to any with whom the Company in London shall make any other par- ticular agreement, to which relation is to be had in such case. And for such as transport servants, land shall be allotted for each servant, fifty acres to the master ; which land the master is to dispose of at his discretion, in regard the servants' transportation, wages, &c., is at the master's charge.
21. A Court of Assistants, on Thursday the 21st of May, 1629. Present,
MR. GOVERNOR,
MR. BILSON,
MR. GOFF, Deputy,
MR. THOMAS HUSON,
MR. HARWOOD, Treasurer,
MR. INCREASE NOELL,
MR. ADAMS, MR. HUMPHREY,
MR. WHICHCOYTE,
CAPT. WALLER,
MR. FOXCROFT,
MR. HUTCHINS.
MR. EATON,
Mr. Eaton took the oath of Assistant. And he is desired to accompany Mr. Humphrey to Mr. Whyte, the counsellor, to be satisfied concerning the admin- istering oaths to the Governor and Council in New-
77
THE GOVERNMENT IN NEW-ENGLAND.
England. Mr. Whetcombe is also desired to be with CHAP. III. them.
May 21.
The Court of the 18th of May was now read, as also the Order conceived by Mr. Governor and others concerning the allotment of lands, and a part of the letter1 formerly written in this particular was con- firmed ; whereunto this Court thought fit to add, - If within ten days after the arrival of these ships, and demand made by any person, adventurer in the com- mon stock, or his or their servant, of their allotment of land, the same not being done, that then each per- son be permitted to seat himself and build his house in a convenient place not formerly built [upon] nor manured, and enclose the same to his or their use, not exceeding the one half of that proportion which by the former order of this Court is allowed ; and when the dividend is made, to be free to make his choice within the said allotment, if he dislike that he had formerly chosen.
It is thought fit that the Secretary draw out at large the Orders2 concerning the establishment of the Governor and Council in New-England, as also the Order2 made concerning the allotment of lands ; and Mr. Governor, Mr. Deputy, Mr. Treasurer, Mr. Adams, Mr. Eaton, Mr. Hutchins, Mr. Nowell, Mr. Whetcombe, Mr. William Vassall, or any four of them, whereof the Governor or Deputy to be always one, are desired and appointed to meet and resolve of these Orders, and to affix the Company's seal thereunto ; as also for preparing letters to be now
1 The letter here referred to was one written to Endicott on the 17th and 21st of April. It will be found
in a subsequent part of this volume. 2 These Orders will be found in a subsequent part of this volume.
78
OFFICERS OF THE PLANTATION.
CHAP. written, and to resolve and determine of all other III. business requisite for despatching of these ships.1 1629.
May A Meeting at the Governor's house on Friday, the 22d 22. of May, 1629. Present,
MR. GOVERNOR, MR. ADAMS, MR. HUMPHREY.
DEPUTY,
The Orders drawn for the establishment of the Governor, Deputy, and Council, and other Officers in the Plantation at the Mattachusetts Bay in New- England, as also the Orders for the dividing and allot- ment of land there to the adventurers and others, were now read, advised on, corrected, and concluded on, &c .; together with the General Letter from the Company here to the Governor and Council there.2 All which are appointed to be fairly engrossed, and the said Orders to be sealed with the common seal of the Company, and sent over upon the ships now ready to depart for New-England.
June 11.
A General Court the 11th of June, 1629. Present,
MR. GOVERNOR, MR. WILLIAM VASSALL,
MR. DEPUTY, MR. WEBB,
MR. HARWOOD, Treasurer,
MR. HUMFREY,
MR. ADAMS, MR. CRANE,
MR. JOHN VENN, MR. PULLISTON,
MR. BACKHOUSE,
MR. FOXCROFT.
This Court was appointed to take consideration of
1 These ships were, the May- flower, the Four Sisters of 400 tons, and the Pilgrim. They sailed about the end of this month.
2 This is their Second Letter to Endicott, dated May 18th. It will appear hereafter.
79
HENRY GAUDEN'S DEMAND.
raising of moneys for payment of divers debts and CHAP. bills ; and thereupon an estimate was made of what III. was owing, per severals' bills, and which are of ne- 1629. June 11.
cessity to be presently paid.
That another day be appointed, and the whole Company to be summoned by tickets, which is thought fit to be on Wednesday next.
Mr. Godden,1 master of the ship [blank], made demand of freight pretended to be due unto him for his last voyage ; but he not expressing a certain sum, this Assembly think fit to defer him till the next Court ; and in the mean time he is desired to bring in a note of what is due, as also to give security to the Company to free them from any further de- mands, &c., and thereupon a final conclusion thereof to be made.
A General Court at the Deputy's house on Wednesday, the 17th of June, 1629. Present, 17.
MR. GOVERNOR,
MR. COOKE,
MR. DEPUTY,
MR. CLARKE,
SIR R. SALTONSTALL,
MR. BALLARD,
MR. GEORGE FOXCROFT,
MR. PULISON,
MR. RICHARD PERRY,
MR. WALGRAVE,
MR. ADAMS,
MR. BACKHOUSE,
MR. WHITCOMBE,
MR. DAVIS,
MR. POCOCKE,
MR. EDMUND WHYTE,
MR. JOHNSON,
CAPT. WALLER,
MR. NOELL,
CAPT. VENN,
MR. HARWOOD, Treasurer,
MR. WHYTE,
MR. PELHAM,
MR. DAVIS,2
MR. THOMAS ANDREWS,
MR. ALDERSEY.
1 Henry Gauden was master of the Abigail, the ship that carried over Endicott and his company. See p. 43.
2 Mr. Davis's name was probably repeated by mistake.
80
RAISING OF MONEY.
CHAP. III. Mr. [blank] Johnson1 sworn an Assistant of this Company, being chosen thereunto at a Court the 13th of May, 1629.
1629. June 17. Mr. Governor moved that a course might be set- tled for bringing in of moneys, and
Mr. Treasurer returned a note concerning the Leicestershire men.
It was propounded,
To increase their former subscriptions,
To invite others to underwrite,
To borrow money for a time to supply the occasions,
To take up money at interest,
That those here present do furnish [£]200 or [£]100 apiece, to have allowance for it.
The Court taking into consideration the necessity of a present supply of the sum of £1500, for dis- charging of debts and bills, and that the moneys un- derwritten by the adventurers, and not yet brought in, nor not likely to be brought in, in convenient time for satisfaction of those debts and bills which are of necessity to be presently paid ; upon several propo- sitions made, it is desired and concluded on, that those of the Company here present would each of them voluntarily lend such a sum of money as he shall think fit, for advancing the sum wanting, and to have the common seal of the Company for the re- payment thereof, according to the time for which he or they so lend the same; and also that the Secretary be appointed to go to such others of the Company not present as Mr. Governor shall name, to intimate
1 This was Isaac Johnson, already
account of him will be given here- mentioned on pp. 65 and 72. Some after.
81
MONEY SUBSCRIBED.
the same unto them, and to desire them to under- CHAP. write what sums they will lend for this occasion, III. according as many of the Company here present 1629. June 17. have done. And it is ordered that the common seal of the Company be given to them, and all others that will lend, for repayment thereof at such time as they shall desire the same.
Names of those in Court that underwrit to lend.
SIR R. SALTONSTALL,
£100
SYM. WHETCOMBE, £25
MR. GOVERNOR,
150
THO. HUTCHINS,
25
MR. DEPUTY,
50 EDW. COOKE, 50
[RICHARD] PERRY,
25
DAN. BALLARD, 25
[THOMAS ] ADAMS,
50
EDM. WHYTE,
20
INCREASE NOELL,
25
JOSEPH CARON,1
25
GEORGE HARWOOD,
50
[SAMUEL] ALDERSEY,
50
RICHARD WHYTE,
25
THO. ANDREWS,
25
MR. CLARK,
25
Auditors appointed for auditing the accounts, viz. Mr. Symon Whetcombe, Mr. Nathaniel Wright, Mr. Noell, Mr. Perry, Mr. Crane, Mr. Clarke, Mr. Eaton, and Mr. Andrews ;2 these eight, or any four or more of them, to meet at a convenient time and place to audit the accounts.
A Committee for reducing of all former Orders into a method, viz. the Governor, Mr. Whyte, Mr. Davenport, Mr. Johnson, Capt. Waller, Capt. Venn,
1 Probably the same person who signed the instructions to Endicott, May 30, 1628, and who is there called Joseph Caxon. See Hutch- inson's Mass. i. 9.
2 Thomas Andrews was a London merchant, living in Bowe Lane, and was mayor of the city in 1551. He was one of the adventurers that were interested in the Plymouth Colony. He is not to be confound-
ed with Richard, probably his bro- ther, a haberdasher at the Mermaid in Cheapside, who was also interest- ed in the Plymouth adventure, and was an eminent benefactor of the Massachusetts Colony, having sent them sixteen heifers and upwards of £500 in money. See Mass. Hist. Coll. iii. 48, xxi. 22, and Savage's Winthrop, i. 136, 374, ii. 75, 212, 342.
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THE ACCOUNTS TO BE AUDITED.
1629. June 17.
CHAP. III. Mr. Aldersey, Mr. Adams, Mr. Wright, and Mr. Darby, they or any four of them, and to present the same to the next General Court, to be ratified and confirmed, in part or in whole, as shall be then thought fit ; which are then by the Secretary to be entered into a fair book to be kept for that purpose, according to the usage and custom of other Compa- nies.
July 28. A General Court holden for the Company of the Matta- chusetts Bay, in New-England, at Mr. Deputy's house, on Tuesday the 28th of July, 1629. Present,
MR. MATTHEW CRADOCK, Governor, MR. THOMAS GOFF, Deputy, MR. GEORGE HARWOOD, Treasurer,
MR. THOMAS ADAMS,
MR. SAMUEL VASSALL,
MR. NATHANIEL WRIGHT,
MR. JOSEPH BRADSHAWE,
MR. THEOPHILUS EATON, MR. BURNELL,
MR. RICHARD PERRY,
MR. REVELL,
MR. INCREASE NOELL,
MR. DANIEL BALLARD,
MR. SYMON WHETCOMBE,
MR. SPURSTOWE,
MR. JOHN POCOCK,
MR. THOMAS HEWSON,
MR. [CHRISTOPHER ] COLSON, MR. WOODGATE,
MR. [THOMAS ] HUTCHINS, MR. WEBB,
MR. WILLIAM PINCHON,
MR. CRANE,
Assistants. Generality.
The business treated on at the last meeting was now read ; and thereupon the accounts of Mr. Gov- ernor, Mr. Deputy, and Mr. Treasurer, being now presented to this Court, the Auditors formerly ap- pointed for auditing the Company's accounts were now desired to meet and peruse and audit these ac- counts ; which they have agreed to do to-morrow in the afternoon.
83
A LETTER FROM ENDICOTT.
It was moved by Mr. Governor, that a ship of four CHAP. hundred tons and of good force being now to be sold,
III. should be bought for the Company's use, upon their 1629. general stock ; or that some particular members of July the Company would undertake to buy the said ship, 28. in regard the Company are not now in cash ; and that the Company will not only employ that ship, but take other ships of them of less defence, for transport of their cattle and all other commodities, from time to time, so long as they shall be willing to furnish such shipping. Whereupon Mr. Governor declared that he was willing to take & part of the said ship, or under,
And did write § part,
MR. REVELL, T'ES
MR. DEPUTY, T6 MR. ALDERSEY, 16
MR. ADAMS, 4,00 MR. MILBURNE,
MR. WRIGHT,
MR. HUSON,
MR. EATON, 1
16
MR. WHETCOMBE, 1
16
THE COMPANY, &c.
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A letter1 of the 27th of May from Mr. John En- decott was now read; wherein, amongst other things, he complains of the profane and dissolute living of divers of our nation, former traders to those parts, and of their irregular trading with the Indians,2 con- trary to his late Majesty's Proclamation,3 desiring that the Company would take the same into their serious consideration, and to use some speedy means
1 This letter, unfortunately, is not preserved.
2 Endicott probably had in view Morton, of Mount Wollaston, who is said to have been the first in these parts to sell guns and ammunition to the Indians, and to teach them their usc. See Morton's Memorial, p. 138.
3 This proclamation, prohibiting interloping and disorderly trading to New-England in America, was is- sued by James I. on the 6th of No- vember, 1622. It is printed in Ry- mer's Fædera, xvii. 416, and in Hazard's State Papers, i. 151.
84
IRREGULAR TRADING WITH THE INDIANS.
CHAP. here for reformation thereof. Whereupon the Pro- III. clamation made in anno 1622 was read, and it is
1629. thought fit that suit be made to his Majesty or the
July 28. Lords1 for renewing thereof, with addition of such beneficial clauses as shall be needful for reforming so great and unsufferable abuses ; and Mr. Governor, Mr. Aldersey, Mr. Wright, and Mr. Eaton, are desired to repair to the Lord Keeper2 and Mr. Sec- retary Coke3 to acquaint their Honors herewith, and afterwards a petition to be presented to the Council Board accordingly.4
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