Of the MS. copy a few pages at the be ginning and end are mutilated, and the writing, in some places, is scarcely legible. These passages are given, as far as the editors could spell them out. Where they have supplied words, or portions of words, conjecturally, such are printed in italicks. Where they were at a loss, they have used asterisks.* They had hoped to obtain an entire copy of this defective portion. This fond expectation was derived from their knowledge that a transcript was made by Hon. Peter Oliver, Esq. LL. D. Chief Justice of Massachusetts.† Application has been made to the family in England, for a part or the whole of this precious document; but without success.‡ A. HOLMES, Cambridge, Mass. 1815. Committee of the Historical Society. * From the ninth page, the manuscript is entire; pages 7 and 8 are nearly so; 3, 4, 5, and 6, considerably torn and effaced; 1 and 2 appear to be wanting. At the end, page 337 is a little defective; 338 is nearly effaced; the remainder is lost. The editors had contemplated retaining the author's mode of spelling; but soon finding that this was not uniform, they concluded not to continue the attempt, after the first seven chapters. "1773. June 10. Judge Oliver came and drank tea with me. He has a copy of the Rev. Mr. Hubbard's MSS. of Ipswich, which he himself copied from a copy which had corrections in Mr. Hubbard's own hand writing. I think it contains 3 or 400 pages folio. This with Gov. Bradford's and Gov. Winthrop's MSS. are the three most considerable historical accounts of the first settlement of New England.” President Stiles' Literary Diary Every relick or document which related to the settlement of the country or was curious, had a value stamped upon it. He collect ed many papers and records, and even transcribed William Hubbard's MS. history with his own hand. All these, except such as Hutchinson made use of, were carried away with him when he went to England." Art. Oliver. (P.) Eliot's N. E. Biogr. Dict. p. 350. See the letters on this subject; Histor. Collections vol. iii. New Berics. Of the plantation at Patuxet, or New Plymouth, in * The Ms. copy is carefully preserved in the library of the Historical СНАР. Х. The necessities and sufferings of the inhabitants of The council established at Plymouth in the county of Devon, for the ordering the affairs of New The addition of more assistants to the government of Plymouth colony, with some passages most re- markable there, in the years 1624, 1625. Affairs in the colony of New Plymouth, political Several planters transport themselves into New England. Ministers invited to join with them. CHAP. XXI. The affairs of religion in the Massachusetts Colony in New England, during the first lustre of years Transactions of the patentees at London after the patent was obtained; debates about carrying it The first planting [of] the Massachusetts Bay with towns, after the arrival of the governour, and company that came along with him; and other occurrents that then fell out. 1630, 1631, 1632. The first courts kept in the Massachusetts, after the coming over of the governour. The carrying on of their civil affairs, from the year 1630 to Ecclesiastical affairs of the Massachusetts, during Memorable accidents during this lustre of years. The small pox among the Indians. Pestilential fever at Plymouth; with other occurrences wor- b The first planting of those parts of New England, on the east and west side of Pascataqua river, called the Province of Main and New Hamp- shire, and the parts adjoining. Attempts for a new settlement of those lands by some of the Grand Council of New England, before they John Oldham murdered by the Indians of Block Isl- and; how discovered, and the war that followed Froublesome occurrences in New England in the some in England; demanded by the Lords of the The occasion of spreading erroneous opinions in |