Mr. John Howland, Mr. Richard Warren, Mr. Stephen Hopkins, Mr. Edward Tilly, Mr. John Tilly, Mr. Clark, Mr. Coppin, John Allerton, Thomas English, Edward Doten, (Dotey,) with the Master Gunner of the ship, and three of the common seamen." They returned from this excursion on Dec. 13th, and on Friday, the 15th, sailed for the place which they had discovered. See Prince, pp. 163-4, 165-7; Bradford and Winslow, in Young, pp. 138-48, 149-63; Davis's Morton, pp. 41-9.

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Page 60, note a. This treaty was made on the 22d of March, 1620-1, and, says Belknap, (Amer. Biog., Art. CARVER, ii. 214,) was kept with fidelity as long as Massasoit lived." The instrument, which is omitted in Hubbard's MS., is here supplied from Morton; some slight variations will be apparent on a comparison with the copy preserved in Bradford and Winslow's Journal.

1. That neither he, nor any of his, should injure or do hurt to any of their people.

2. That if any of his did any hurt to any of theirs, he should send the offender, that they might punish him.

3. That if anything were taken away from any of theirs, he should cause it to be restored; and they should do the like to his.

4. That if any did unjustly war against him, they would aid him; and if any did war against them, he should aid them.

5. That he should send to his neighbour confederates, to certify them of this, that they might not wrong them, but might be likewise comprised in these Conditions of Peace.

6. That when his men came to them upon any occasion, they should leave their arms behind them.

7. Lastly, that so doing, their Sovereign Lord King James would esteem him as his friend and ally.

See Davis's Morton, pp. 53-5; Bradford and Winslow, in Young, pp. 190-4; Prince, pp. 186–8.

Page 61, note a. This instrument has been compared with, and corrected by, the copy preserved in Morton's Men orial. See Davis's Morton, p. 67; Young, p. 232; Prince, p. 196; Drake's Book of the Indians, ii. p. 30.

Page 66, note a. "April 5. We despatch the ship with Captain Jones, who this day sails from New Plymouth, and May 6 arrives in England." See Bradford and Winslow, in Young, p. 199; Davis's Morton, pp. 67–8; Prince, p. 189.

Page 69, note a. This ship was the Fortune. The names of twentynine of her passengers may be found in Young, p. 235. She sailed for England again, December 13th. See Prince, pp. 198-9; Davis's Morton, Pp. 73-4, 377-8.

Page 72, note a. The seven men, last mentioned, arrived at Plymouth towards the end of May, 1622, in "a shallop that belonged to a fishing ship, called the Sparrow," in the employ of Messrs. Weston and Beauchamp. The "sixty young men" reached Plymouth "in the end of June, or beginning of July," in the ships Charity and Swan. The Charity, "being the bigger ship," sailed for Virginia. See Winslow, in Young, pp. 292-3, 296-7; Davis's Morton, pp. 78–80; Prince, pp. 202-4.

Page 73, note a. "Mr. John Huddleston," Bradford, in Prince, p. 202; Hudston," ," Davis's Morton, pp. 80-1, where may be found the letter.

Page 74, note a. The drought, fast, and thanksgiving all took place in the year 1623, not 1622. See Winslow, in Young, pp. 347-50; Prince, p. 218; Davis's Morton, pp. 82, 98.

Page 75, note a. This word has been substituted for to in the MS., on the following considerations. Bradford, in Prince, p. 205, states that the Discovery, Captain Jones commander, touched at Plymouth in the end of August, "on her way from Virginia, homeward," and adds, "in this ship comes Mr. John Porey, who had been Secretary in Virginia, and is going home in her; who, after his departure, sends the Governor a letter of thanks, and after his return to England does this poor Plantation much credit among those of no mean rank."

Porey having obtained the place of Secretary through the interest of the Earl of Warwick, sailed for Virginia in company with Sir George Yeardley, who had been appointed Governor-General of the Colony. They reached the place of their destination April 18, 1619, and Porey was one of those whom Sir George, "to begin his government, added to be of his Council." His Commission as Secretary expired at the same time with Yeardley's, in November, 1621. "He had given the Company little satisfaction in that office, but had been plainly detected, although a sworn officer, of betraying the proceedings and secretly conveying the proofs, against Captain [Samuel] Argall, to the Earl of Warwick. And as he was besides known to be a professed tool and instrument to that faction, the Company was at no loss or hesitation about renewing his Commission."

"The obseruations of Master John Pory, Secretarie of Virginia, in his trauels," are preserved by Smith, General History of Virginia, pp. 141-3. The postscript of his letter to Gov. Bradford is in Morton, p. 84. See Smith, p. 126; Stith's History of Virginia, (8vo. Williamsburg, 1747,) pp. 157– 8, 190.

Page 78, note a. Prat reached Plymouth on the 24th of March, and Standish sailed for "the Massachusetts" the next day, March 25, 1623. See Winslow, in Young, pp. 327-45; Davis's Morton, pp. 87-92.

Page 78, note b. Merrimak river."

"In the bottom of the bay between Pascataquak and Bradford, in Prince, p. 216'; and also Morton, p. 92.

Page 82, note a. of the drought, &c., preceding year, 1622.

See page 273, note a.

Here should follow the account which Hubbard, following Morton, has placed in the See page 74, note a.

Page 82, note b. Mr. Savage, (Winthrop, i. 25,) remarks," Hubbard unvaryingly, except on page 82, gives his name Peirse. So the Probate Record spells it, and so by himself, as I have seen, was it written." The exception on page 82" henceforth has no existence, as any one may assure himself by glancing at the MS., if he is inclined to doubt the accuracy of the present reading.

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Page 83, note a. This was the Little James "a fine new vessel of fortyfour tons, (Mr. Bridges master,) which the Company had built to stay in . the country." Bradford, in Prince, p. 220; see, also, Winslow, in Young, pp. 351-3; Morton, pp. 100-2, 378-80.

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Page 86, note a. Bradford, in Prince, pp. 221-2, says that Gorges "pitches on the same place Mr. Weston's people had forsaken." His Patent is in Gorges's America, Part 2, pp. 34-7.

Page 88, note a. The passage within inverted commas is thus designated in the MS. It may be found, with some variations, in Gorges's America, Part 2, p. 40.

Page 98, note a. Thus originally written in the MS. The word was subsequently partially erased, and where he written above; an alteration occasioned, perhaps, by the knowledge of the fact that Allerton went again to England in June, 1627. This faithful agent crossed the Atlantic no less than six times in as many years, in the service of the Colony. These Voyages were as follows:

1st. In the fall of 1626; returns to Plymouth in the spring of 1627. See Prince, pp. 239, 242; Mass. Hist. Coll. III. 46, 47–8.

2d. In June, 1627; returns in the spring of 1628. Prince, pp. 245-6, (compared with Mass. Hist. Coll. III. 49) 246-7.

3d. In the summer or autumn of 1628; returns in November. Prince p. 252; Cradock's Letter to Endicott, in Young's Chronicles of Mass., p. 132. 4th. In the spring of 1629; returns in August. Prince, pp. 261, 265. 5th. In the fall of 1629; returns in March, 1629-30. Prince, pp. 265, 274.

6th. In August, 1630, in the Lion, with Captain Peirse; returns in June, 1631. Savage's Winthrop, i. 373, 57; Prince, p. 313; Dudley's Letter to the Countess of Lincoln, in Young's Chronicles of Mass., p. 333.

Allerton was discharged from his agency in July, 1631, "for acting contrary to [his] instructions." Prince, p. 358.

For notices of Allerton, see Savage's Winthrop; Davis's Morton, pp. 391-4; Young's Chronicles of Plymouth and Mass.; Bacon's Letter, in Mass. Hist. Coll. XXVII. 243-9, with Judge Davis's "Addenda" thereto, ibid. 301-4; and Bradford's Letter Book, in Mass. Hist. Coll. III.

Page 99, note a. "Though Governor Bradford, and from him Mr. Morton, place the whole story under 1627, yet Governor Bradford says this part of it happened in the beginning of winter 1626." Prince, p. 241, note. Page 100, note a. In Mass. Hist. Coll. III. 51-6, may be found Bradford's minutes of this correspondence with the Dutch.

Prince, p. 242, after mentioning the first letter received from "Fort Amsterdam," (dated "March 9, 1627, N. S.") remarks, in a note, "Mr. Morton saying that De Rasier not long after comes to Plymouth, thence Mr. Hubbard mistakes in thinking he comes this year; whereas it is plain from Governor Bradford that he comes not hither till the year succeeding." Prince, for a wonder, is in error, and Hubbard correct. De Razier did come to Plymouth in 1627, as is evident from the following passage in a letter of Gov. Bradford to the Governor and Council of New Netherlands, dated "Plymouth, Oct. 1, Anno 1627."

"Right Honourable and Worthy Lords, &c. We understand by your agent, Mr. Isaac Razier, who is at this present with us, (and hath demeaned himself to your Honours' and his own credit) of your honourable and respective good intentions towards us, which we humbly acknowledge with all thankfulness," &c. &c. Mass. Hist. Coll. III. 55.

Page 109, note a. Prince, (Annals, p. 249,) says "Mr. Hubbard and others wrongly place Mr. Endicot's voyage after the grant of the royal charter, whereas he came above eight months before." Hubbard's language is not, to be sure, very precise, but it does not seem to imply what Prince supposes. After stating that the Patentees of the Council for New England did at the last resolve, with one joint consent, to petition the King's Majesty to confirm" to them and their associates" by a new grant or Patent, the tract of land forementioned," Hubbard adds, "which was accordingly obtained." These last four words, taken in connexion with what follows, are the foundation of Prince's criticism; but to me they appear to be thrown in by way of parenthesis, referring to a subsequent occurrencea very common practice with our author; and the words soon after, beginning the next paragraph, have no reference whatever to the time of obtaining the Charter, but refer to the resolution of the Patentees to apply for a confirmation of their grant. Looking at it in this light, there is no anachronism in Hubbard's statement; and that such is the proper view to be taken of it will appear from a glance at pages 110, 114-15.

Page 111, note a. This Chapter," the most original and valuable part of Hubbard's History," has been inserted by Dr. Young in his Chronicles of Mass., pp. 17-35, to which the reader is referred for numerous and valuable notes, and a notice of the Ipswich Historian.

Page 123, note a. "Mr. Hubbard mistakes in placing this on May 13," says Prince, p. 260. The subject was first agitated at a Court of Assistants, on the 18th of May, and a committee was appointed to meet the next day "to advise and conclude of this business," which they did; and at a meeting on the 21st the arrangement made by the committee was confirmed, and it was resolved" that the Secretary draw out at large the Order made concerning the allotment," and a committee was appointed "to meet and resolve of" this with other Orders, "and to affix the Company's Seal thereunto." In pursuance of this resolution the committee met on the 22d, when "the Orders for the dividing and allotment of land were read, advised on, corrected, and concluded on, appointed to be fairly engrossed, and to be sealed with the common seal of the Company, and sent over upon the ships now ready to depart for New England."

See the Records of the Company, in Young's Chronicles of Mass., pp. 73–6, 77-8, 197-200.

Page 124, note a. The following is a complete list of the Assistants chosen at this time.

Sir Richard Saltonstall,
Mr. Isaac Johnson,
Mr. Thomas Dudley,
Mr. John Endicott,
Mr. Increase Nowell,
Mr. William Vassall,
Mr. William Pinchon,
Mr. Samuell Sharpe,
Mr. Edward Rossiter,

Mr. Thomas Sharpe,
Mr. John Revell,

Mr. Matthew Cradock,
Mr. Thomas Goff,
Mr. Samuel Aldersey,
Mr. John Venu,

Mr. Nathaniel Wright,

Mr. Theophilus Eaton,
Mr. Thomas Adams.

From Young's Chronicles of Mass., p. 106.

Page 124, note b. A slight mistake. Thomas Sharpe was chosen Assistant Oct. 20, 1629; Roger Ludlow, chosen and sworn, in place of Samuel Sharpe, Feb. 10, 1630. Janson, William Coddington, and Bradstreet were chosen in place of Wright, Eaton, and Goffe, March 18, 1630; Janson was sworn the same day; Bradstreet and Coddington, together with T. Sharpe, on March 23d. See Young's Chronicles of Mass., pp. 106, 123-4, 125–6.

Page 128, note a. This unparalleled Address forms the first article in the Appendix to Hutchinson's first volume. It also finds a place in Young's Chronicles of Mass., pp. 293-8, with which version that of Hubbard has been carefully compared.

From this place to page 536 we shall travel in goodly company - no other than that of the Father of the Massachusetts Colony - for, as says his learned editor, "from the time when Winthrop comes to his aid, he (Hubbard) generously relies on him." Fortunate indeed was the Ipswich historian to find such a guide, and very far should we be from blaming him for making so good a use of the materials which chance had thrown in his way.

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Page 138, note a. So also in Prince. In Savage's Winthrop this relation is put under Dec. 28th. Dudley says Upon the 5th day (of January) came letters to us from Plymouth, advertising us of this sad accident following. About a fortnight before, there went from us in a shallop to Plymouth," &c. "A fortnight before" Jan. 5th would be Dec. 22d, which

would seem to be the correct date. See Prince, p. 326; and compare Savage's Winthrop, i. 39-40, with Dudley's Letter, in Young's Chronicles of Mass., pp. 327-9.

Page 142, note a. This individual is described in Prince, p. 362, as 66 one Jo. P.," and in Savage's Winthrop, i. 62, as "John P" Can it be the "John Peverly" mentioned as one of the servants sent over by Mason to his Province of New Hampshire?

Richmond's Island, says Prince, was "a part of a tract of land granted to Mr. Trelane, a Plymouth merchant (in England) where he had settled a place for fishing, built a ship there, and improved many servants for fishing and planting." But the "History of Portland" says, " Bagnal occupied the island without any title; but within two months after his death, a grant was made by the Council of Plymouth, bearing date December 1, 1631, to Robert Trelawny and Moses Goodyeare, merchants, of Plymouth, in England, of the tract lying between Cammock's patent and the bay and river of Casco, and extending northwards into the main lands so far as the limits and bounds of the lands granted to the said Capt. Thomas Cammock, do and ought to extend towards the north,' which included this (Richmond's) island and all of the present town of Cape-Elizabeth." N. E. Hist. and Gen. Register, 11. 39; Adams's Annals of Portsmouth, (8vo. Portsm. 1825,) p. 18; Maine Hist. Coll. 1. 19, 21; Folsom's History of Saco and Biddeford, (12mo. Saco, 1830,) p. 29.

Page 152, note a. Hubbard took this letter from Morton; but Prince has preserved a copy of it in his Annals, pp. 430-1, with this note appended; "I have taken all this exactly as wrote in Governor Bradford's manuscript. By which it seems that by Mr. Tr'r is meant Mr. Treasurer Weston, and not Trevers, as printed in Mr. Morton." (See Davis's Morton, pp. 165-8.) Hubbard's version has been carefully compared with, and corrected by, that of Prince.

Page 170, note a. In Winthrop, under Jan. 20, 1633-4, is found the following entry: "Hall and the two others, who went to Connecticut November 3, came now home, having lost themselves and endured much misery." From this it would seem that Hall made a second expedition to Connecticut, as he accompanied Oldham in September, 1633. See Savage's Winthrop, i. 111, 123.

Page 180, note a. Winthrop and Wilson sailed for England Nov. 2, 1634, and arrived home again Oct. 6, (Holmes says, Oct. 8,) 1635. See Savage's Winthrop, i. 384, 147, 153, 169-70, 172-3.

Page 188, note a. And so Hutchinson, and Emerson, (History of the First Church in Boston, 8vo. Bost. 1812,) both copying from Hubbard; but Winthrop says Oct. 10th.

Page 194, note a. Davenport "and another minister" arrived June 26, 1637. (Sav. Win. i. 227-8.) Cobbet was probably the other minister, though Trumbull (History of Connecticut, Svo. New Haven, 1818, i. 95,) says that it was Samuel Eaton.