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the faid Robt. Mafon to that part of the province of New-Hampshire : And his majefty doth likewife thinke fit that upon bringing the faid appeale by the faid Wil- liam Vaughan, all proceedings at law relating to the faid title doe forth with ceafe until his majefty's pleafure be known. Whereof you are to take notice and to govern your felfe accordingly. And fo we bid you very heartily farewell. From the councill chamber at Whitehall, the 29th day of Aprill, 1685. Your loving friends,
(Signed. ) IV. Cant.
Bridgwater,
Guilford, C. S.
Chefterfield,
Rochefter,
Sunderland,
Halifax, P.
Craven,
Clarindine, C. P. S.
Aylefbery,
Beaufort,
Midleton,
Lindthy,
Godolphan,
Arlington,
J. Ernle,
Hunington,
Geo. Jaffreys.
DireSted to our loving friend Edw. Cran- field, Efq. lieut. governor and comander in chiefe of his majefty's province of New-Hampfhire in N. England.
No. XXXIX.
A FTER our hearty comendation : His majesty hath received the petition and appeale of Wm. Vaughan, inhabitant of New-Hampfhire, from feverall verdicts and judgments given against him in that province, which be- ing refered to us by his majefty's order in councill of the 29th of Aprill laft, that we fhould examine the allega - tions thereof, and make report of the fame, with our opinion thereupon, wee have accordingly appointed to heare all parties concerned in the feverall cafes therein contained, on the firft Tuefday after mid-fummer day which shall be in the yeare 1685 : To which end we here- with fend you a coppie of the faid petition and appeale, which you are to communicate unto Robt. Mafon, efq. and to all others whome it may concern, who are to take notice thereof, and to give their attendance at that time either by themfelves or by their agents fufficiently impow- ered by them, to anfwer the faid appeale, and to fubmit to fuch judgment hereupon as to his majefty in councill fhall be thought fitt. And you are likewife to permit all per-
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fons to have free acceffe to, and take coppies of all re- cords with in that province relating to the matters in dif- pute, and to depofe upon oath what they know concern- ing the fame, which depofitions are to be taken in writ- ing by any of the members of the council or juftices of the peace in that province, without any hindrance or difcou- ragment whatfoever, in order to be tranfmitted unto us, for the clearing of truth in that appeale. And fo we bid you heartily farewell. From the councill chamber in Whitehall, the 22d day of May 1685.
Your loving friends,
Gilford, C. S. Rochefter,
Halifax, Pr. Clarindine, C. P. S.
Ormond, Sunderland.
Lieut. gou. of New-Hampfhire, or com- 3 ander in chiefe for the time being.
[The two preceding papers are in the poffeffion of John Pen- ballow, Efquire. ]
No. XL.
To the king's moft excellent majefty.
The humble petition and addrefs of your majefty's duti- fill and loyal fubjects inhabiting in the province of New-Hampfhire in New-England. [1685.]
Moft humbly theweth,
T' HAT your majefty's loyal fubjects of this province, had for more than fifty years been peaceably pof- fetled of the lands lately challenged by Mr. Mafon, and having found the fame an utter defert and foreft land, with excelfive coft and hard labour reduced the fame to a tollerable fupport of our felves and familyes and lately maintained the fame with a vaft expence of our eftates and lives againft the incurfions of a barbarous enemy who had otherwife reduced the fame to utter confufion.
That upon his late majefty's declaration and order for the fettlement and government of this province, wee ac- counted ourfelves happy for that therein we were by his faid majefty's princely grace and favour, faved from the un- reafonable demands which Mr. Mafon might have made upon us, by the limitations in the commiffion for gov- ernment, wherein it was provided that the faid prefident or governor for the time being, fhould ufe all methods by his good advice to fettle and quiet the people in the matter of Mr. Mafon's title, or otherwife impartially to ftate the cafe
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cafe and report the fame to his majefty, that a finall de- termination might thereupon have been made by his ma- jefty in councell, which if it had been duely attended had we doubt not long fince by your majefty's juftice and fa- vour putt us into an happy eftate of quiet and repofe.
That notwithftanding his faid majetty's command and limitation, the faid Mir. Mafon hath been allowed to pur- fue many of the inhabitants, in feveral fuites and actions, wherein the government have taken to themfelves power of an abfolute judgment without any regard had to the faid commands and limitations, and with that excefs and rigor as to affigne the faid Mr. Mafon fometimes tenn pounds, other times twenty pounds coff, when damages have been fometimes not above two fhillings, very feldom ten according to the orders and limitations abovefaid.
That the faid Mr. Mafon beyond and befide the faid quit rents, and directly againft his majefty's order in the faid commiffion, wherein the tennure of improved lands is affured to the ter-tenants upon payment of the faid quitt rent, or otherwife as his majefty in councill fhould determine, hath difpoled or given away the fee to feveral perfons of feveral lands which were longe before his chal- lenge fenced and improved by others, to the great dam- age and injury of his majefty's good fubje&s, befide many other irregularities in the management of the government, to the greate oppreffion and deftruction of trade within your majefty's province, and the utter impoverithing thereof.
That for the laft two yeare's and upward dureing the whole management of Mr. Mafon's fuits at law againft your majefty's fubjects, there hath been generally one ju- ry returned to ferve all the faid iffues with little altera- tions and aimoft conftantly one foreman, (who for that end wee are apt to feare) was carly complied with by Mr. Mafon for all the lands in his owne poffeffion formerly, with addition of feveral other lands to his owne proffitt.
That notwithftanding your majefty's late gracious or- der, and inhibiting of any further procedure in the cafe of Mr. Mafon's title, until the caufe were brought before your majefty in council, Mr. Walter Barefoote who was Jeft deputy governor, hath fince the arrival of your ma- jefty's commands permitted executions to be extended. and perfons thereupon imprifoned in caufes concerning
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the faid Mafons title, with exceffive and unreafonable cofts and damages.
And laftly, whereas your majefty hath upon complaint made againft the irregular proceedings done and fuffered, been gracioufly pleafed to permit Mr. William Vaughan, one of the principal inhabitants and merchants in this province, to take his appeale to your majefty in councill for relief, againft feverall oppreffive judgments, one where. of referrs to the title of his lands within this province hold- en in the fame form with the reft of his majefty's good lubjects here, wee do with all humble gratitude acknow- ledge your majefty's juftice and favour herein and for that the purfuance and iffue of the faid appeale will therefore neceffarily affect the whole province and be introductory to the determination of all Mr. Mafon's challenge, we have judged it our duty in moft humble manner to proftrate ourfelves at your Majefty's feete, and have therefore be- trufted and fully empowered Mr. Nathaniel Weare one of the inhabitants of this your majefty's province our a- gent to lay before your majefty and moft honorable privy council the common cafe and condition of your majefty's poore and diftreffed fubjects in this province, who is fully inftructed humbly to reprefent the fame, and the arbitra- ry and fevere oppreffions wee have laboured under, from which wee are well affured of reliefe by your majefty's moft juft and gracious determination, and to make an humble and entire fubmiffion of ourfelves unto your ma- jefty's pleafure, moft humbly befecching that wee may henceforward have our perfect and immediate dependence upon your majefty and the crown of England as well in the tennure of our lands as in the affairs of government, which gracious influence of your majefty is only able to revive and reftore this province to its former flourith- ing eftate and growth, whereby we may at length be made ferviceable to your moft facred majefty and the crowne which wee are devoted to ferve, refolving therein to be exemplary to all other your majefty's fubjects in the territory of New-England, and for which wee fhall ever pray, &c.
[ This paper is in the hands of the hon. Profident Weare.]
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No. XLI.
At the court at Whitehall the 19th of November 1686,
(LS.) Prefent, The king's moft excellent Majefty.
Lord Chancellor,
E. of Plymouth,
Ld Treafurer,
E. of Morray,
Ld Prefident,
E. of Middleton,
Duke of Ormond,
E. of Melford,
D. of Albermarle,
E. of Tyrconnell,
D. of Beauford,
Vifcount Stauronberg,
Ld Chamberlain,
Vifc. Prefton,
Earl of Oxford,
Ld Bp of Durham,
E. of Huntington,
Ld Arrundell of Wardour,
E. of Peterborough,
E. of Craven,
Ld Dover,
Mr Chancellor of the exchequer
E. of Powis,
Ld Dartmouth,
E. of Nottingham, Mr. Chancellor of the Dutchy. U PON reading this day at the board a report from the honble the lords of the committee of council for trade and foreign plantations, bearing date the fixth of November inftant, fetting forth, that in obedience to his majefty's orders in council of the 25th of April 1685, and the third of July laft, they have examined the appeal of Wm. Vaughan from a verdict and judgment given againft him on the 6th day of November 1683, in his majefty's courts in New-Hampfhire in New-England, at the ¡fuit of Robert Mafon Efq. as proprietor of that province, for certain lands and tenements in Portfmouth in the faid province and that they having heard the faid Robert Mafon and Nathaniel Weare attorney for the ap- pellant and his council learned in the law, are humbly of opinion that his majefty be pleafed to ratify and affirm the verdict and judgment aforefaid.
His majefty in council was pleafed to approve of their lordfhip's faid opinion and report, and to order the faid verdict and judgment given againft the faid William Vaughan on the fixth day of November 1683, in his majefty's courts in New-Hampfhire in New-England, at the fuit of Robt. Mafon, efq as proprietor of that prounce, for certaine lands and tenements in Portfmuth in faid province, be ratified and affirmed, and they are hereby rat- fied and affirmed accordingly. WM. BRIDGEMAN. Vera copia, per Richard Partridge, clerk.
Copy as on file in the cafe, Allen vs Waldron,
Exam. per Geo. Jaffrey, Cl. No.
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No. XLII.
Four letters or petitions from John Hogkins, commonly called Hakins, one of the fachems of the Penacook Indians. [ From the originals in the Recorder's ofice.
Honour gouernor my friend, May 15th 1585.
YOU my friend I defire your worfhip and your power, I becaufe I hope you can do fom great matters this one. I am poor and naked and I have no men at my place bc- caufe I afraid allwayes Mohogs he will kill me every day and night. If your worfhip when pleafe pray help me you no let Mohogs kill me at my place at Malamake riv- er called Panukkog and Nattukkog, I will fubmit your
worfhip and your power. And now I want pouder and fuch alminithon, thatt and guns, becaufe I have forth at my hom and I plant theare.
This all Indian hand, but pray you do confider
your humble fervant, JOHN HOGKINS.
Simon Detogkom, Peter · Robin,
Tofeph x Trafke,
Mr. Jorge _ Roddunnonukgus
King b Hary,
Mr Hope + Hoth,
Sam B Linis, John -- Toneh,
Wapegguanat 1 Sagua- ? John a Canowa,
chuwafhat, S John x Owamolimmin,
Oid Robin b, Natonill # Indian,
Mamanofgues Andra.
Another from the fame.
Honour Mr. Governor, May 15, 1685:
NOW this day I com your houfe, I want fe you, and I bring my hand at before you I want thake hand to you if your worthip when pleafe then you receve my hand then fhake your hand and my hand. You my friend be- caufe I remember at old time when live my grant father and grant mother then Englifhmen com this country, then my grant father and Englithmen they make a good govenant, they friend allwayes, my grant father leving at place called Malamake rever, other name chef Natukkog and Panukkog, that one rever great many names, and I bring you this few fkins at this first time I will give you, my friend. This all Indian hand.
[ The red as before. ] JOIIN -- HAWKINS, Sagamor.
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Another from the fame.
Pleafe your worfhip,
I WILL intreat you matther you my friend, now this it my Indian he do you long pray you no put your law becaufe fom my Indins fooll, fom men much love drunk then he no know what he do, may be he do mifchif when he drunk if fo pray you muft let me know what he done becaufe I will ponif him what he have done you, you my friend if you defire my bufinefs, then fent me I will help you if I can. Mr. JOHN HOGKINS.
Another from the fame.
Mr. Mafon,
PRAY I want fpeake you a few words if your wor- fhip when pleafe becaufe I come parfas [on purpofe] I will fpeake this governor but he go away fo he fay at lait night, and fo far I underftand this governor his power that your power now, fo he fpeake his own mouth. Prav if you take what I want pray com to me becaufe I want go hom at this day.
Your humble fervant,
JOHN HOGKINS, Indian fogmor. May 16, 1685.
No. XLIII.
Letter from Capt. Hooke, advifing of danger from the Indians. Capt. Barefoot, Sir.
T HIS is to informe you that juft now there cam to me a poft, wherein I am fully informed that there is juft ground to feare that the heathen have a fouden de- fyne againft us ; they havinge lately about Sacoe affront- ed our Englifh inhabitants there by threatening of them, as alfoe by killinge theyre doggs ; but more pertickularly in that on Friday, Saturday, and Lord's day laft they have gathered all theyre corne, and are removed both pack and packidge. A word to the wife is enough. The old proverb is, forwarned forearmed. Myfelf and reft in commiffion with us are forthwith fettinge ourfelves in a pofture, and tomorrow our counfell meet for to confider what is needful to be done. Not els, beinge in great haft, butt remayn, Sir, your obliged fervant,
Kittery, 13 Aug. 1685. Nn
FRANCIS HOOKE. No.
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No. XLIV.
Report of persons fent to enquire into the above matter, ( No date or fignature.)
To the honourable Walter Barefoot, Efq. and the coun- cell of Great-Ifland.
Gentlemen,
A CCORDINGE to your command and order to me, bearinge date the 2d inftant, I have to the utmoft of my power obferved every particular. Upon our arri- val there on Friday night they were all very courteous to us, and in the morninge my orders were read which was very kindly received by them, and the reafons why they deferted the places where they ufually abode among the Englifh was,
I That four Indians came from fort Albany to the fort at Pennicooke and informed them that all the Mo- hawkes did declare they would kill all Indians from Un- cas at mount Hope to the eaftward as far as Pegypfcut.
2. The reafon of Natombamat, fagamore of Saco, de- parted his place was, becaufe the fame news was brought there as himfelf declared upon reading my orders at Pen- nicooke.
3. Natombamat, fagamore of Saco, is gone to carry the Indians downe to the fame place where they were be- fore departed from us, on Sunday morninge, and defired Capt. Hooke to meet him at Saco, five days after.
4. Both fegamores of Pennicook, viz. Wannilanfet and Mefandowit, the latter of which is come downe, did then declare they had no intention of war, neither indeed are they in any pofture for war, beinge about 24 men befides fquaws and papofes.
5. Afking the reafon why they did not come among the Englifh as formerly, they anfwered they thought if the Mohawkes came and fought them and they fhould fly for fuccour to the Englith, that then the Mohawkes would kill all the Englith for harboring them.
No. XLV.
Articles of peace agreed upon the eighth day of Septem- ber, in the year of our Lord 1685, between the fub- jects of his majefty king James the fecond inhabiting the provinces of New-Hampshire and Maine, and the Indians inhabiting the faid provinces.
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TT is agreed there fhall be for the future a lafting peace
1 friendfhip and kindnefs between the Englifh and the Indians, and that no injury fhall be offered by the one to the other.
That if any Englifhman doth any injury to an Indian, upon complaint made to any juftice of peace the Englifh- man fhall be punished, and the Indian fhall have prefent fatisfaction made him. And if any Indian doth an in- jury to the Englifh or threaten to do any injury, the fa- gamore to whom that Indian doth belong, thall punifh him in prefence of one of the king's juftices of the peace.
That if any other Indian fhall deligne any mifchief or harme to the Englifh, the Indians inhabiting the afore- faid provinces fhall give prefent notice thereof to the Eng- lifh, and fhall affift the Englith.
That fo long as the aforefaid Indians fhall continue in friendfhip with the Englifh, they fhall be protected againft the Mohawks, or any others, and may freely and peace- ably fet downe by the Englifh near any their plantations. Robert Mafon, Walter Barefoote,
Robert Elliot, Henry Green,
John Davis, Francis Hooke.
The mark of { Mefandowit.
The mark x of WVahowah, alias Hopehood.
The mark of Tecamorifick, alias Jofias.
The mark of John Nomony, alias Upiawah. The mark - of Umbefnowah, alias Robin.
We whofe names are hereunto written do freely con- fent and engage to comply and perform the within writ- ten articles as our neighbours have done, and do further engage as followeth :
Laftly, That the Indians fhall not at any time hereaf- ter remove from any of the Englifh plantations with their wives and children before they have given fair and timely notice thereof unto the Englifh, from whence they do fo remove ; and in cafe the faid Indians fhall remove with their wives and children without fuch fair and time- ly notice given to the Englifh, that then it fhall be taken pro confeffo that the Indians do intend and defigne war with the Englifh, and do thereby declare that the peace is broken; and it fhall and may be lawful to and for the Englifh, or any on their behalfs, to apprehend the faid Indians with their wives and children, and to ufe acts of
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hoftility againft them until the fagamores fhall make full fatisfaction for all charge and damage that may arife thereby.
John Davis, Francis Hooke,
The mark . of Netambomet, fagam. of Saco. The mark x of Wahowah, alias Hopehood. The mark (:) of Ned Higgon,
The mark A of Newcome.
Kankamogus, alias John Hawkins, fagamore, figned this inftrument, 19 7ber, 1685, his HE mark.
Bageffon, alias Jofeph Trafke, O his mark.
And agreed to all within written.
Teftis, JOSEPH RAYN.
No. XLVI.
Portfmouth, the 7th of Sept. 1687. "l'o the much honred court now fiting in faid Portf- mouth, for the prouinc of Newhampfhir, The humbel petithon of William Houchins, on of his magefty fubgi&ts belonging to faid prouince, humbly feweth for aduic, ade and releff in his deplorabell eftat and condition.
T HAT whareas it has plefed God to lay his hand up- pon him, and that hee is in fuch a condition not being abell to help him felff, as to the geting a liuing or proquering help or remedy for my diftemper, being low in the world, and hauing ufeed all the means and ad- uic pofabell for nere fiue year paft ; hauing bin in- formed by fom that it is a deftemper caled the king's cuill*, fo can not be qureed but by his magefty. Hauing littell or nothing in this world, if my liff fhould go
* This petition is infected merely as a curiofity. It was a received opinion in that day that the diftemper called the king's evil could be cured only by the royal touch. The following ad- vertitement, taken from an old London Gazette, is of the fame nature.
"Thefe are to give notice, that the weather growing warme, his majesty will not touch any more for the evil till towards Mi- chaelmafs. And his majesty's chirurgeons defire to prevent his majesty being defrauded, that greater care be taken for the future in regiftering certificates given to fuch as come to be touched." Land. Gaz. May 29, 1682.
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go for it am not abell to trancfport my felff for England to his magefty for releff ; thareffor humbly and hartly beg the help, ade and afiftane of this honred cort, that thay would fo far commiferat my dlopiorabell condition as order fom way ether by breff or any other way that youer honers fhall think moft meet to move the harts of all criften people with compation to befto fomthing uppon mee, to trancfport mee from England, whar, Cod willing, I intend forth with to goo if pofabell, but without help not pofabell. This humbly leuing my felff in the fad condition I am in, trufting in God and youer honers for help and aduice, fubfcrib youer por deplorabel! far- uant,
WILLIAM HOUCHINS.
No. XLVII. A letter from Secretary Aldington to Major Waldron, appriz- ing him of his danger from the Indians.
[The original in the bands of the hon. Thomas Weftbrooke Waldron. 7
Honble Sir,
Bofton, 27 June 1689.
T HE governor and councill haveing this day receiv- ed a letter from Major Henchman, of Chelmsford, that fome Indians are come into them who report that there is a gathering of fome Indians in or about Pene- cooke, with defigne of mifchiefe to the Englifh. A- mong the faid Indians one Hawkins is faid to be a princi- ple defigner, and that they have a particular defigne a- gainft vourfelf and Mr. Peter Coffin, which the council thought it neceffary prefently to difpatch advice thereof to give you notice, that you take care of your own fafe- guard, they intending to endeavour to betray you on a pretention of trade.
Pleafe forthwith to fignify the import hereof to Mr. Coffin and others as you fhall thinke neceffary, and ad- vife of what informations you may at any time receive of the Indians motions.
By order in councill, ISA. ADDINGTON, Secs.
For Major Richard Waldren and Mr. Peter
Coffin, or either of them, att Cochecha ; there with all puffible fperd.
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No. XLVIII.
Copy of an address of the general court to Queen Anne, De- cem. 6, 1706. [Council minutes.]
To the queen's moft excellent majefty. The addrefs of your majefty's moft dutiful and loyal fub- jects, the governor, council, and reprefentatives of your majefty's province of New-Hampfhire in New-England, convened in general affembly,
Moft humbly fheweth,
T HAT in the midft of the great diftreffes, that your majefty's moft dutiful and loyal fubjects of this your majefty's province were involved in, by the frequent incurfions of our ill neighbours the French of Canada and their dependent Indians, to the great hurt of our plantations and fettlements, your facred majefty has been pleafed of your royal bounty and compaffion to fupply us with a number of cannon and ftores for our defence, the receipt whereof has invigorated and encouraged us in the defence of our frontiers, and our marches againft the In- dians in their fecret receffes in the woods, which are al- ways and ftill fuccefsfully put forward by your majefty's governor for our fecurity, to our perfect fatisfaction.
That while we were thus defending ourfelves and fam- ilies, againft the common enemy of the repofe of all your majefty's Britifh fubjects in the plantations abroad as well as in Europe, we were purfued by the challenge of Mr. Allen for the lands and foil under our feet, which we have this fixty years defended with our lives and eftates, as well as the affiftance of our good neighbours of our majefty's colony of the Maffachufetts, your majefty of your royal and princely regard to us has difmiffed that challenge, which will forever encourage us to our utmoft power to defend this your majefty's province, fince we may now hope to leave our children in the poffeffion of the country, with an entire dependance upon your ma- jefty and your royal fucceffors without the danger of any further unjuft challenge from thofe perfons that have fo long difturbed us with their claims.
And whereas your majefty out of a gracious regard to this and other your provinces in thefe parts of America,
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was pleafed to form a defign againft the French fettlements at Canada and Nova-Scotia the laft fummer, but a more important fervice in Europe requiring your majefty's for- ces which were intended hither, whereby that defign is laid afide for the prefent ; we moft humbly pray your majefty that it may confift with your royal pleafure to rc- vive the faid defign, and that the expedition lately intend- ed may be profecuted feafonably the next fpring ; and that your majefty's arms in America may have a glorious fuc- cefs as in Europe, to the utter confufion of your enemies, and lafting repofe of all your inajefty's good fubjects in- habiting this continent.
We moft humbly render our everlafting praifes to Al- mighty God for your majefty's moft glorious fucccfles againft the tyranny and ufurpation of the French king and heartily pray for your majefty's long life and happy reign and the continuance of the proteftant lucceffion, for the benefit of your majefty's fubjects of Great Britain, of all your majefty's dominions and plantations, and of all Europe who have had the unfpeakable benefit of your majefty's unparalleled reign.
Weare your majefty's moft loyal and obedient fubjects,
Mark Hunking, fpeaker. Signed in prefence and by or- der of the Houfe of Reprefent- atives.
Cha. Story, fecretary. Signed in the prefence and by order of the Council.
Portfmouth, in New-Hampfhire, 6th December, 170G.
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[Franklin, Benjamin ]. An Historical Review of the Constitution and Government of Pennsylvania, From Its Origin . . . London, 1759.
Hubbard, William. A General History of New England, From the Discovery to MDCLXXX. (In Massachusetts Historical Society, COLLECTIONS, Series 2, vol. 5, 6, 1815. Reprinted 1848.)
Hutchinson, Thomas. The History of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay ... 3 vols., Boston, 1764-1828.
Keith, Sir William. The History of the British Plantations in America ... London, 1738.
Long, Edward. The History of Jamaica: Or, General Survey of the Antient and Modern State of that Island . . . 3 vols., London, 1774.
Mather, Cotton. Magnalia Christi Americana; Or, The Ecclesiastical History of New-England From ... the Year 1620, Unto the Year . .. 1698. In Seven Books. London, 1702.
Mather, Increase. A Relation of the Troubles Which Have Hapned in New-England, By Reason of the Indians There From the Year 1614 to the Year 1675 . .. Boston, 1677.
Smith, Samuel. The History of the Colony of Nova-Caesaria, Or New-Jersey ... to the Year 1721 ... Burlington, N.J., 1765.
Thomas, Sir Dalby. An Historical Account of the Rise and Growth of the West-India Collonies, and of the Great Advantages They are to England, in Respect to Trade. London, 1690.
Trumbull, Benjamin. A Complete History of Connecticut, Civil and Ecclesiastical, From the Emigration of Its First Planters, From England, in the Year 1630, to the Year 1764; and to the Close of the Indian Wars ... New Haven, 1818. Two volumes in one.
Personal Narratives and Promotional Literature
Byrd, William. The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover, 1709-1712, edited by Louis B. Wright and Marion Tinling. Richmond, Va., 1941.
Byrd, William. The London Diary (1717-1721) and Other Writings, edited by Louis B. Wright and Marion Tinling. New York, 1958.
A Genuine Narrative of the Intended Conspiracy of the Negroes at Antigua. Extracted From an Authentic Copy of a Report. Made to the Chief Governor of the Carabee Islands, by the Commissioners, or Judges Appointed to Try the Conspirators. Dublin, 1737.
Gookin, Daniel. An Historical Account of the Doings and Sufferings of the Christian Indians in New England in the Years 1675, 1676, 1677 . . . ( In American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass. ARCHAEOLOGIA AMERICANA. TRANSACTIONS AND COLLECTIONS. Cambridge, 1836. vol. 2.)
Gookin, Daniel. Historical Collections of the Indians in New England. Of Their Several Nations, Numbers, Customs, Manners, Religion and Government, Before the English Planted There . .. Boston, 1792.
Morton, Thomas. New English Canaan or New Canaan. Containing an Abstract of New England. Composed in Three Books ... Amsterdam, 1637.
Sewall, Samuel. Diary of Samuel Sewall, 1674-1729. ( In Massachusetts Historical Society. COLLECTIONS, 5th Series. V-VII, 1878-1882.) Three volumes.
Virginia: Four Personal Narratives. Hamor. Ralph. A True Discourse on the Present Estate of Virginia . . . Till the 18 of June 1614 .. . London, 1615/Hariot, Thomas. A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia . . . London, 1588 Percy, George. A Trewe Relacyon of the Proceedings and Ocurrentes of Momente Which Have Happened in Virginia From ... 1609, Until ... 1612. ( In Tyler's Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine, Vol. III, 1922.) Rolf, John. Virginia in 1616. ( In Virginia Historical Register and Literary Advertiser, Vol. I. No. III, July, 1848.) New York, 1972.
Winthrop, John. The History of New England From 1630-1649. Edited by James Savage. Boston, 1825-1826. Two volumes in one.
New England Puritan Tracts of the Seventeenth Century
Cobbett, Thomas. The Civil Magistrate's Power in Matters of Religion Modestly Debated ... London, 1653.
Cotton, John. The Bloudy Tenent, Washed, and Made White in the Bloud of the Lambe . .. London, 1647.
Cotton, John. A Brief Exposition with Practical Observations Upon the Whole Book of Canticles. London, 1655.
Cotton, John. Christ the Fountaine of Life: Or, Sundry Choyce Sermons on Part of the Fift Chapter of the First Epistle of St. John. London, 1651.
Cotton, John. Two Sermons. ( Gods Mercie Mixed with His Justice ... London, 1641 /The True Constitution of a Particular Visible Church, Proved by Scripture ... London, 1642.) New York, 1972.
Eliot, John. The Christian Commonwealth: Or, The Civil Policy of the Rising Kingdom of Jesus Christ. London, 1659.
Hooker, Thomas. The Application of Redemption, By the Effectual Work of the Word, and Spirit of Christ, for the Bringing Home of Lost Sinners to God. London, 1657.
H[ooker ], T[ homas ]. The Christian's Two Chiefe Lessons, Viz. Selfe Deniall, and Selfe Tryall ... London, 1640.
Hooker, Thomas. A Survey of the Summe of Church-Discipline Wherein the Way of the Churches of New England is Warranted Out of the Word, and All Exceptions of Weight, Which Are Made Against It, Answered ... London, 1648.
Increase Mather Vs. Solomon Stoddard: Two Puritan Tracts. ( Mather, Increase. The Order of the Gospel, Professed and Practised by the Churches of Christ in New-England . .. Boston, 1700/Stoddard, Solomon. The Doctrine of Instituted Churches Explained, and Proved From the Word of God. London, 1700.) New York, 1972.
Mather, Cotton. Ratio Disciplinae Fratrum Nov-Anglorum. A Faithful Account of the Discipline Professed and Practised, in the Churches of New England. Boston, 1726. Mather, Richard. Church Covenant: Two Tracts. ( Church-Government and Church-Covenant Discussed, in an Answer to the Elders of the Severall Churches in New-England ... London, 1643 /An Apologie of the Churches in New-England for Church-Covenant, Or, A Discourse Touching the Covenant Between God and Men, and Especially Concerning Church-Covenant ... London, 1643.) New York, 1972.
The Imperial System
[Blenman, Jonathan ]. Remarks on Several Acts of Parliament Relating More Especially to the Colonies Abroad .. . London, 1742.
British Imperialism: Three Documents. (Berkeley, George. A Proposal for the Better Supplying of Churches in our Foreign Plantations, and for Converting the Savage Americans to Christianity by a College to be Erected in the Summer Islands, Otherwise Called the Isles of Bermuda . . . London, 1724 '| Fothergill, John |. Considerations Relative to the North American Colonies. London, 1765 A Letter to a Member of Parliament Concerning the Naval-Store Bill London, 1720.) New York, 1972.
Coke, Roger. A Discourse of Trade ... London, 1670.
[D'Avenant, Charles |. An Essay Upon the Government of the English Plantations on the Continent of America ( 1701). An Anonymous Virginian's Proposals for Liberty Under the British Crown. With Two Memoranda by William Byrd. Edited by Louis B. Wright. San Marino, Calif., 1945.
Dummer, Jeremiah. A Defence of the New-England Charters . . . London, 1721.
Gee. Joshua. The Trade and Navigation of Great Britain Considered: Shewing that Surest Way for a Nation to Increase in Riches, is to Prevent the Importation of Such Foreign Commodities as May Be Rais'd at Home. London, 1729.
[ Little, Otis ]. The State of Trade in the Northern Colonies Considered; With an Account of Their Produce, and a Particular Description of Nova Scotia ... London, 1748.
Tucker, Jos[iah ]. The True Interest of Britain, Set Forth in Regard to the Colonies: And the Only Means of Living in Peace and Harmony With Them, Including Five Different Plans for Effecting this Desirable Event . . . Philadelphia, 1776.
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