see [ing] for the fog, we struck sail back some four leagues, and coursed for two watches' time up and down.

Saturday, July 4 Wind east by south; the day thick with fogs. We saw our consort on the head on us, and spake with him in the afternoon. We sailed faintly on, because the day was so foggy. We sounded, and had some forty-five or forty fathoms water, and we saw many whale spouts. After the day clearing up, we saw land on both handa, Plymouth on the left, and Salem on the right, - toward sunsetting. About five o'clock we saw the islands in our passage up to Boston. About eight I saw a flying creature like a spark of red fire (about the bigness of an humble-bee) fly by the side of the ship; and presently after, there flew another by. The men said they were fireHlies. About eleven or twelve o'clock I went to lie down to sleep on my cabin (for none went [to] bed because we were nigh our harbor, and waited to go ashore as soon as we cast anchor). But when I was dropped in a slumber there was a sad outery made, insomuch that I was wakened with it in a fright, thinking the ship had been cast upon some rock; but the cause was this: There was a ketch at anchor, and coming to it, our men did so hoe the ship (for that is their word when they call to any in another ship), and there being a horse aboard, he leaped overboard into the sea. [It was] that they hooted at so.

About three o'clock on the Lord's Day, July 5, in the morning, we came ashore, and I lay in Mr. Ti—er's* house, who was brother to one Mrs. Allen, that went into New England in our ship with us. In the morning, going to deliver a letter to Mr. Mayo, minister of God's word to his people that meet in the new meeting-house, I dined with him, and lodged at Mr. Mather's the two following nights. This gentleman married Mr. Cotton's daughter, lives where Mr. Cotton lived and died, and is the other minister of God's word in the new meetinghouse.

July 7. I delivered a letter from Mr. Clarke, and another from his brother Meadwel, to their kinsman Mr. Hull,† who invited me to his house till I had despatched my business and was settled in the college, and also to bring my chest to his warehouse. This gentleman would not be said nay, - therefore I was with him, and received much kindness from him. I continued with him till I settled at Cambridge.

About July 14, I went to Cambridge to speak with the President, who gave me encouragement. At night it thundered and lightened very dreadfully, insomuch that I had little rest for the flashes of lightning. Now about Mr. Stoughton had his miller wound in by the cogs and rounds till they squeezed his extas ‡ out.

About July 22 I went to Cambridge again and lay at the President's.

The first two letters of this name are at the end of a line in the manuscript; the last three begin the following line. One, or perhaps two letters have disappeared from the middle of the name, which cannot be restored. - EDs.

Captain John Hull, mint-master, and treasurer of the colony, was also a native of Leicestershire. He was born at Market Harborough. -EDs.

"Exta, the bowels or entrails of an animal body." See Bailey's English Dictionary.-Eds.

At night it thundered, lightened, and rained very much; and as his son Elnathan and I were going to bed about ten or eleven o'clock in the night, as it rained there came a white peckled* dove pigeon, and flew against the casement of our chamber window, and there sat. I only being in bed when I heard it was a pigeon, got up and so we opened the casement upon the dove so far as that we took him in, and when he was in, we would have caught him, and he ran from us and cooed and bristled at us. In the morning he was let out again. The President, when he heard it, said he would not (of any good) he should be hurt, for one should not hear of the like; it was ominous surely. July 23. I was admitted into the college.f

Being settled in the college, pupil under Mr. Thomas Graves, Senior Fellow, in a great and yet civil class, I continued there three years and a quarter, all which time I was College Butler. During which time these occurrences are most observable: viz. –

1st. Mr. Graves, not having his name for nought, lost the love of the undergraduates by his too much austerity, whereupon they used to strike a nail above the hall door-catch while we were reciting to him, and so nail him in the hall. At which disorder I was troubled, whereupon being desired by him to go into the buttery privily and watch who did it, one morning I did so; but being spied by the scholars I was fain to haste out and make haste to Boston before I spake to Mr. Graves, the better to cloak over the business that so the scholars might conclude it was accidental and not ex proposito (for I was fearful of incensing them against me), for which, notwithstanding the hazard I was in of setting them against me and the love I expressed to Mr. Graves in putting myself for his sake into such hazard, I was checked by him when I came up again.

2d. When he went about to read to us natural physics, he would read to us out of Mageirus, which was reputed none of the best, and had not been read by the other classes in the college; and so we did refuse to read it, and I also (though since I have read it I am sorry I opposed it), insomuch that he, seeing he could prevail with me to read it, though they should continue opposite thereto, gave me (in his passion) the unworthiest language that ever I received of any man to my knowledge. But before we had read it through he left us to Mr. Joseph Browne, who upon his going away, being chosen Fellow, slighted it as much as we. Mr. Browne now being our Tutor carried it so respectively to us that he had our very hearts, and we scarce ever did any thing without his advice.

3d. In the spring of my second year's residence in the college (being 1670), I going to reckon with Goodman Steadman for my winter's wood, his wife Elizabeth lying at that time under trouble of spirit, though she had not revealed it, complained with grief of my strangeness, saying that they were not good enough for my company,

and withal said, with tears in her eyes, that she was persuaded that if I knew her condition, how it was with her, I would come often to their house. Which, when I perceived that she was a woman of a troubled spirit, I went oftener and was, though an unworthy creature, an instrument of some use unto her for her comfort and support; who afterward proved a great and good nurse to me whensoever I was in any kind of affliction.

So long also as I remained in the college the Lord gave me the affections of all both in the college and in the town whose love was worth having. Yet some there were that added afflictions to me by their whispering, back-biting tongues, which made me much desirous to go from Cambridge, judging it to be some who spoke me fair to my face, but grudge me my charitable and well-grounded esteem of Goodwife Steadman, the object of their envy. When on this account I purposed to lay down my place at Commencement, the President, by his incessant request and desires, prevailed with me to tarry in it as yet. But the quarter following I had more afflictions than I had all the three years before. But being invited by Mr. Flint over to Braintree to be at their house and make use of his study there, I found some inclination thereto, and went Nov. 13, 1671, to Braintree; but not finding a second invitation upon the same ground, I returned and settled in the college, and was instituted, the 16th day of November, scholar of the house.

But the 17th being the quarter day, Thomas Dewy, a messenger sent from Westfield on Connecticut River, to the Bay for to get a minister for that people, being by eight or nine elders, met at the lecture in Boston the day before, directed to myself, came to me with a letter from Mr. Increase Mather, pastor of the Second Church at Boston, whom for an answer I referred to the reverend President and Fellows. Reserving liberty to advise with friends; and finding Mr. Danforth for it, Mr. Oakes indifferent, rather advising to it, the President altogether against it at this time, and the Fellows advising rather to it than any thing else, giving this a reason why their advice was not positive,because they were to respect the college good, hereupon I was both. encouraged and discouraged. But Mr. Danforth, the magistrate, driving on hard, advised to take other advice; wherefore delaying to give an answer till 24th day, I did on the 18th advise with Mr. Increase Mather and Mr. Thacher, whose advice was positive for it. But the 20th day Thomas Dewy came again and lay hard at me to go with him that week; but I could not, neither did I promise him to go, yet he saw by my preparation sufficient to raise his expectations and to make him conclude that I would go. But on Thursday 23d, at night, it fell a great snow, yet on the 26th, though it snowed apace, he came for me and would have gone with me would I have gone, though on the 27th, Mr. Belcher, Mr. Timothy Hide, Samuel Green, &c., were to Wherefore tarrying till then, I, not knowing how to cast down Goodman Dewy's expectations after I had raised them, set forward, not without much apprehension of a tedious and hazardous journey, the snow being about mid-leg deep, the way unbeaten, or the track

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filled up again, and over rocks and mountains, and the journey being about a hundred miles. And Mr. Cooke of Cambridge told us it was the desperatest journey that ever Connecticut men undertook. On the night before, I went to take my leave of our honored President, whose mind was changed, and his love was so much expressed that I could scarce leave him, and well it might be so, for he told me in plain words that he knew not how to part with me. But as my proceedings were by prayer and counsel, so my journey was carried on by mercy and good success. The first night we lodged at Marlbury where our company was increased one more. From thence we went out the day following about half an hour before sunrising for Quaubaug, i. e., Waterfield; but about ten o'clock we lost our way in the snow and woods, which hindered us some three or four miles; but finding it again by the marked trees on we went, but our talk was of lying in the woods all night, for we were then about thirty miles off from our lodging, having neither house nor wigwam in our way. But about eight at night we came in, through mercy, in health to our lodging, from which on the next day we set out for Springfield, which we arrived at also in health, and on the next day we ventured to lead our horses, in great danger, over Connecticut River, though altogether against my will, upon the ice, which was about two days in freezing; but mercy going along with, though the ice cracked every step, yet we came over safely and well to the wonder almost of all that knew it. This being the 2d [1st?] of December, we came to Westfield, the place of our desire, in health, where we first called at Captain Cook's, who entertained us with great joy and gladness, giving me many thanks for coming and that at such a season. But though we had had both fair and warm weather all the way, yet before I had been half an hour within his house there came such gusts of wind against his house as I scarce ever heard. Then after a while we went to Mr. Whiting's, and then I know not that ever I heard such gusts and shuffs of wind as blew then. There the men of the town came to welcome me, and after supper I went to Goodman Ashly's, where I was to be till Mr. Whiting had got his house ready that I might be with him. On Lord's day after, I preached to them from Matthew iii. 2, my first sermon, being Dec. 3, 1671. On Thursday I removed to Mr. Whiting's, where I settled in quarters.

On Friday, at night, Jan. 12, about nine or ten o'clock, Thomas Dewey, being gone from home to Northampton, had his house and almost all his goods burned down; and one of his children, i. e., a little girl, being almost undressed to go to bed, and affrighted, ran into the parlor or bedroom, where had not the youth run in to have got something out, and as he went out hit her with his foot, or stumbled at her, she had in all likelihood been burned. The fire came thus: one of the boys went up into the chamber, with a stick of candlewood burning, for some corns to play at checkers, and the stick dropped a drop in some

* Quaubaug was the Indian name of Brookfield, which was not incorporated until Oct. 15, 1673.- Eds.

tow and so fired. John Osburn, their next neighbor, a man likely to have stood them in stead at that time, was providentially hindered from taking any notice thereof by the falling of his child in the fire just at the same season. This Thomas Dewy was the messenger that I came up with.*

Mr. JUSTIN WINSOR exhibited three manuscript maps by Dr. Jeremy Belknap, preserved in the Library of Harvard College, relating to the treaty with the Indians of the Northwest Territory in 1795. One of these maps shows the boundary lines between the United States and the Indians; the second, the territory ceded by the treaty, and, by a dotted line, the route of General Wayne's army; the third, the line of forts north of the Ohio River. On the last is this memorandum, "Cincinnati is the name of the village which is built round Fort Washington."

Mr. WINSOR mentioned also, as an interesting fact, that the сору of Purchas's "Pilgrimes" in the College Library once belonged to Judge Sewall, and contained some manuscript notes in Dr. Belknap's hand.

Mr. G. DEXTER communicated a letter from Professor Erasmus Rask to the Hon. Henry Wheaton, saying:

I have found lately among some papers of the late Henry Wheaton, for many years the diplomatic representative of this country at the courts of Copenhagen and Berlin, an interesting letter written to him in 1831 by Erasmus Rask on the subject of the discovery of America by the Northmen. Mr. Rask is recognized as one of the great philological scholars of his time, and he was particularly well acquainted with the Icelandic language and literature, on which he wrote several treatises. Mr. Wheaton, at the date of this letter, had just published in London his history of the Northmen. He had made due mention in this of their visits to America, and as it was a matter in which he took great interest, he was now perhaps seeking more information from his friend.

I do not forget that this letter of Mr. Rask was written before the publication of Professor Rafn's great work, the "Antiquitates Americanæ," which appeared in 1837. Nor am I unaware that Mr. Wheaton himself, in the French trans

*Westfield was incorporated as a town in 1669, but the church was not gathered until 27 August, 1679, at which time a council assembled, and Mr. Taylor was ordained pastor, nearly eight years after he began his ministrations. See "The Westfield Jubilee," pp. 154, 155. Mr. Taylor's tomb is in the old town burying-ground, and a marble memorial slab has been placed in the First - EDS. Congregational Church.