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.

Prince

3d. In the summer or autumn of 1628; returns in November. 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 X 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 accord ingly 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.

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From this place to page 536 we shall travel in goodly company 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.

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 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?

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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, 8vo. New Haven, 1818, i. 95,) says that it was Samuel Eaton.

From Belknap's History of New Hampshire, (Farmer's ed., 8vo. Dover, 1831,) p. 28.

Following this Grant, in the MS., is a complete obliteration of three or four lines.

Page 223, note a. This "Exeter Combination" has been compared with, and corrected by, the copy obtained from the Exeter Town Records by Farmer, and printed in his edition of Belknap's New Hampshire, p. 432. The signatures to the document are as follows:

John Wheelright,
Augustine Storer,
Thomas Wright,

William Wentworth,

Henry Elkins,
George Walton,

Samuel Walker,

Thomas Petit,

Henry Roby,

William Winborne,

Thomas Crawley,
Christopher Helme,
Darby Field,
Robert Read,
Edward Rishworth,
Francis Matthews,
Godfrey Dearborne,
William Wardhall,

Robert Smith,
Ralph Hall,
Robert Seward,
Richard Bulgar,
Christopher Lawson,

George Barlow,
Richard Morris,
Nicholas Needham,

Thomas Wilson,

George Rawbone,
William Cole,
James Wall,
Thomas Leavit,
Edmund Littlefield,
John Cramme,
Philemon Purmo[n]t,
Thomas Wardhall.

Page 224, note a. "Gaines is a blunder of Hubbard's; there was no such patentee in our Province, nor any planter of that name. I cannot account for the blunder, nor even conjecture who it should be. We have Gorges, Gard, (Roger,) and Guy, (John,) in our annals, and these are the nearest approach to the name as given by Hubbard; but neither of them had anything to do with the Black Point Grant." William Wills, Esq., MS. letter. Williamson, the historian of Maine, has transferred Hubbard's "blunder" to his pages, (i. 236, 266,) without comment.

Page 224, note b. Cammock's Grant, dated Nov. 1, 1631, was from the Council of Plymouth. It comprised fifteen hundred acres, extending from the Spurwink to Black Point River, and back one mile from the sea, including Stratton's Islands. Possession of this Grant was given, by Capt. Walter Neale, May 23, 1633. The Patent was confirmed by Gorges in 1640, and in the same year Cammock gave a deed of it to Henry Josselyn, to take effect after the death of himself and wife. He died in the West Indies, in 1613, and Josselyn gained immediate possession by marrying his widow, Margaret. See Maine Hist. Coll. I. 18-19, 41; Williamson's History of Maine, (8vo. Hallowell, 1839,) i. 236; Folsom's Saco and Biddeford, p. 29.

Feb. 12, 1629, (O. S.) the " Council for the affairs of New England," (not Gorges) granted to "Thomas Lewis, Gent., and Capt. Richard Bonython,' &c., all that part of the main land in New England between the Cape or Bay commonly called Cape Elizabeth, and the Cape or Bay commonly called Cape Porpoise," &c. &c. Possession was given, June 28, 1631, by “Edw. Hilton, Gent.," to Thomas Lewis, in the presence of Thomas W grin, James Parker, Henry Watts, and George Vaughan. (See the Patent in Folsom's Saco and Biddeford, pp. 315-17.) This grant may have been confirmed by Gorges in 1640, or thereabouts, and it is to this confirmation that Hubbard may refer.

March 4, 1642, Sir Ferdinando Gorges granted to his "cousin" Thomas Gorges, in consideration of his love and services," five thousand acres of land on the river Ogunquitt, in the south part of the town of Wells, in the County of York. Possession given in presence of Roger Garde, &c. William Willis, Esq., MS. letter.

It has been suggested that Champernoon "was one of the patentees of two grants, of twelve thousand acres each, on the Agamenticus, referred to by Gorges in his Narrative," and that he was probably interested in the one (i. e. grant) west of the river." The date of this Grant has been a matter of some dispute. Notwithstanding what is said in Maine Hist. Coll. 11. 49-50, note, I am inclined to think, with Dr. Belknap and Mr. Folsom, that the grant was made, and the settlement begun, by Capt. William Gorges, Lieut. Col. Norton, and others, in, or about, the year 1623; such, at least, is my opinion, until some proof to the contrary is produced, having more weight than the affirmation of Edward Godfrey, in 1654, that he was "the first that ever bylt or settled ther" at York, having been " 24 years an inhabitant of this place." Godfrey's assertion that he had been for "above 32 years an adventurer on that design" agrees very well with the proposed date (1623) of the grant of the "Plantation upon the river of Agomentico," and seems to prove as much on this side of the question as his "24 years" do on the other. See Gorges's America, Part 1, pp. 24-5, Part 2, pp. 39-40, 12; Prince, p. 119; Belknap's American Biography, i. 354-6, 377-8; Folsom's Saco and Biddeford, pp. 22-5.

Page 233, note a. Harlakenden, with his wife, and sister Mabel, came in the Defence, of London, Thomas Bostock master, in company with Shepard, Wilson, Jones, and others, and arrived at Boston, Oct. 3, 1635. He died at Cambridge, of the Small-pox, Nov. 17, 4638, aged 27, “and left a sweet memorial behind him of his piety and virtue." See Mass. Hist. Coll. XXVIII. 268, 314-15. Young's Chronicles of Mass., pp. 543, 544; Savage's Winthrop, i. 169-70. 277-8; Johnson's History of New England, (sm. 4to. Lond. 1654,) pp. 72-3.

Page 262, note a. This young man was descended of an illustrious family in Wiltshire. His grandfather, Sir James Ley, the sixth son of Henry Ley, Esq., of Treffont Ewias, Wilts., having attained great eminence at the bar, was made Chief Justice of the Court of King's Benca, in Ireland, in 1604, and in England in 1620; was appointed Lord High Treasurer, and created Baron Ley, in 1622; was made Earl of Marlborough on the accession of Charles I., and soon after received the appointment of President of the Council. He died March 14, 1628-9, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Sir Henry Ley, of Westbury, in Wilts., who was General of the King's Artillery in 1643. He married Mary, daughter of Sir Arthur Capel, Knt., by whom he had an only son, SIR JAMES LEY, the "Lord Ley" of Winthrop and Hubbard, whose visit to New England has invested his name with sufficient interest to excuse this brief notice.

On the 26th of June, 1637, two ships from London entered the harbor of Boston, bringing Theophilus Eaton, and his son-in-law, Edward Hopkins, "men of fair estates and of great esteem for religion, and wisdom in other affairs," both of them destined to become "pillars" of sister Colonies, and "great men of this poor Israel," with the "reverend and famous" John Davenport, "and other ministers and people of good note, who the next year removed out of this jurisdiction, to plant beyond Connecticut, being much taken with an opinion of the fruitfulness of the place, and with the remoteness from the Massachusetts; hoping thereby

In Wood's Athenæ it is Teffont-Evias; in Walpole's Royal and Noble Authors, Tes font Evias; in Collins's Peerage, Tesfront-Ewias; in Lord's Lempriere, Jessent. I have not been able to ascertain which is the true name of the place.