An Account of Two Voyages to New-England, Made During the Years 1638, 1663

by active 1630-1675 John Josselyn

A Church now gathered at Waymouth, Mr. Gennor Pastor, Mr. Newman succeeded Mr. Thomas Thatcher.

Three English men put to death at Plimouth for robbing and murthering an Indian near Providence.

June the second a great and terrible earthquake throughout the Countrey.

Samuel Gorton of Warwick-shire, a pestilent seducer, and blasphemous Atheist, the Author of the Sects of Gortinians, banish’d Plimouth plantation, whipt and banished from Road-Island, banisht the Massachusets Colony.

Now they set up a Printing-press at Boston in the Massachusets.

This year came over Mr. William Thompson, Mr. Edmund Brown, Mr. David Frisk.

Mr. John Harvard the founder of Harvard Colledge at Cambridge in the Massachusets Colony, deceased, gave 700 pound to the erecting of it.

1639.

[p. 260.] Mr. William Bradford chosen Governour of new-Plimouth Colony.