The history of the colony of Massachusets-Bay, from the first settlement thereof in 1628. until its incorporation with the colony of Plimouth, province of Main, &c. by the Charter of King William and Queen Mary, in 1691. : [One line in Latin from Pliny] / By Mr. Hutchinson, lieutenant-governor of the Massachusets province.
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- The history of the colony of Massachusets-Bay, from the first settlement thereof in 1628. until its incorporation with the colony of Plimouth, province of Main, &c. by the Charter of King William and Queen Mary, in 1691. : [One line in Latin from Pliny] / By Mr. Hutchinson, lieutenant-governor of the Massachusets province.
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- Hutchinson, Thomas, 1711-1780.
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- Boston, New-England: :: Printed by Thomas & John Fleet, at the Heart and Crown in Cornhill,,
- MDCCLXIV. [1764]
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"The history of the colony of Massachusets-Bay, from the first settlement thereof in 1628. until its incorporation with the colony of Plimouth, province of Main, &c. by the Charter of King William and Queen Mary, in 1691. : [One line in Latin from Pliny] / By Mr. Hutchinson, lieutenant-governor of the Massachusets province." In the digital collection Evans Early American Imprint Collection. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/N07602.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 4, 2024.
Contents
- title page
- CONTENTS.
- APPENDIX.
- The PREFACE.
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CHAP. I. The History of the Colony of
Massachusets-Bay from the first Settlement until the Year 1660. - CHAP. II. Historical Occurrences from the Restoration of King Charles the Second to the year 1686, when the Charter was vacated.
- CHAP. III. From the dissolution of the charter in 1686, until the arrival of the province charter in 1692.
- CHAP. IV. The Ecclesiastical Constitution of the Colony, and the special Religious Customs.
- CHAP. V. The System or Body of Laws established in the Colony.
- CHAP. VI. Of the original State of the Country with respect to the Inhabitants and Soil.
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APPENDIX.
- NUMBER I. The hvmble Reqvest of his Majesties loyall Subjects, the Governour and the Company late gone for New-England; to the rest of their Brethren in and of the Church of England.
- NUMBER II. Certain Proposals made by Lord Say, Lord Brooke, and other Persons of quality, as conditions of their removing to New-England, with the answers thereto.
- NUMBER III. Copy of a Letter from Mr. COTTON to Lord SAY and SEAL in the Year 1636.
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NUMBER IV. Co
of a commission for regulating Plantations. - NUMBER V. Copy of the General Courts Addresse, the 6th of September 1638.
- NUMBER VI. The Theses of the first Class of Graduates at Harvard College, in 1642.
- NUMBER VII. Copy of the determination of arbitrators for settling the line between New-Haven and the Dutch, in 1650.
- NUMBER VIII. Copy of a petition to the Parliament in 1651.
- NUMBER IX. Copy of a Letter to OLIVER CROMWELL in 1651, from the General Court of the Massachusets.
- NUMBER X. Copy of an Address to OLIVER CROMWELL, in 1654.
- NUMBER XI. Copy of a letter from the government of the Co|lony of Rhode-Island, concerning the Quakers.
- NUMBER XII. Copy of a Letter from R. CROMWELL, Protector, &c. to the Governor and Magistrates of the Massachusets Colony in New-England.
- NUMBER XIII. The Court's Declaration of their Rights by Charter, in 1661.
- NUMBER XIV. Copy of a letter to WILLIAM GOFFE, one of the Regicides, from his Wife, in 1662.
- NUMBER XV. Copy of a Commission from King CHARLES the Second, to Col. Nichols and others, in 1664.
- NUMBER XVI. Copy of the Address of the Massachusets Colony to King CHARLES the 2d, in 1664,
- NUMBER XVII. Copy of a letter from the Earl of CLARENDON to the Massachusets Colony, in 1664.
- NUMBER XVIII. Copy of a letter from King CHARLES the 2d to the Colony of New-Plimouth, 1666.
- NUMBER XIX. Copy of a Letter from King CHARLES the 2d, to the Massachusets Colony, in 1666.
- NUMBER XX. SAMUEL GORTON's defence against the charges upon him in Morton's Memorial.
- NUMBER XXI. Major WALLEY's Journal in the Expedition against Canada in 1692.