A Journal of the transactions and occurrences in the Settlement of Massachusetts, and the other New England Colonies, from the year 1630 to 1644: written by J. W, first Governor of Massachusetts: and now first published from a correct copy of the original manuscript

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I I ./. , .-...'/■. />, tin Ifrv-m the Original J'irtiirv 6y J. R.7$nnt>nan. . J ©JOT WIMTHROPo FIB.ST GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS '. THE HISTORY OF NEW ENGLAND FROM mm to mm* BY JOHN WINTHRQP, ESQ. FIRST GOVERNOUR OF THE COLONY OE THE MASSACHUSETTS BAY. —- H^ FROM HIS ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS Will STQWft® TO ILLUSTRATE THE CIVIL AND ECCLESIASTICAL CONCERNS, THE GEOGRAPHY, SETTLE- MENT AND INSTITUTIONS OF THE COUNTRY, AND THE LIVES AND MANNERS OF THE PRINCIPAL PLANTERS. — e-Jo— BY JAMES SAVAGE, MEMBER OE THE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY —Ho— VOL. I. Ssepe audivi, Q. Maximum, P. Scipionem, præterea civitatis nosti^præclaros viros, solitos ita dicere, cum majovum imagines intuerentur, vehementissime sibi animum ad virtutem accendi. Sallnt-r. Bell. Jugurt/t. c, iv. cDo.ston : PRINTED BY PHELPS AND FARNHAM, No. 5, Court Street. 1825.

DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO WIT: District Clerk's Office. Be it remembered, that on the eighteenth day of April, A. D. 1825, in the forty-ninth year of the Independence of the United States of America, James Savage, of the said District, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit: "The History of New England from 1630 to 1649. By John Winthrop, Esq. first Governour of the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay. From his ori ginal Manuscripts. With Notes to illustrate the civil and ecclesiastical Con cerns, the Geography, Settlement and Institutions of the Country, and the Lives and Manners of the principal llanters. By James Savage, Member of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Vol. I. " Sæpe audivi, Q. Maximum, P. Scipionem, præterea civitatis nostræ præ claros viros, solitos ita dicere, cum rnajorum imagines intuerentur, vehementissime sibi animum ad virtulem accendi. — Sallust, Bell.

Jugurth. c. iv." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United Slates, entitled " An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing tbe copies of maps, charts and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned :" and also to an act entitled " An act supplementary to an act, entitled, An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned ; and extending the benefits thereof to the aits of designing, engraving and etching historical and other prints." JNO. W. DAVIS, Clerk of the District of Massachusetts. "AT ye Feast of S'- Michael, An" 1607, my Sister, y« Lady Mildmay, did give me a Stone Pot, tipped and covered wth a Silver Lydd."