Chronicles of the First Planters of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, from 1623 to 1636

viii, 571 pp. Board cloth boards with gilt title on spine, blind-stamped decoration on boards. Now first collected from original records and contemporaneous manuscripts, and illustrated with notes. Includes: John White's Brief Relation of the Occasion of Planting of This Colony; William Hubbard's Narrative of the Discovery and First Planting of the Massachusetts; The Original Records of the Governor ad Company of the Massachusetts Bay, in New-England; Governor Cradock's Letter to Captain John Endicott; the Company's First General Letter of Instructions to Endicott and His Council; The Company's Second General Letter of Instructions to Endicott and His Council; The Form of Government for the Colony; The Allotment of the Lands; Oaths of Office for the Governor and Council; The Company's Agreement with the Ministers; Francis Higginson's Journal of His Voyage; Francis Higginson's New-England Plantation; General Considerations for Planting New-England; The Agreement at Cambridge; The Company's Letters to Higginson and Endicott; The Governor and Company's Humble Request to Their Brethren in and of the Church of England; Deputy Governor Dudley's Letter to the Countess of Lincoln; Captain Roger Clap's Memoirs; The Early Records of Charlestown; William Wood's Description of Massachusetts; John Cotton's Life and Letters: Samuel Whiting's Life of John Cotton - Cotton's Letter to His Wife - Cotton's Letter to the Bishop of Lincoln - Cotton's Reasons for His Removal to New-England; Richard Mather's Journal; Anthony Thacher's Narrative of His Shipwreck; Thomas Shepard's Memoir of His Own Life.