Library of Edward E. Ayer, Chicago, Ill.
In the following pages the first edition of “New-Englands Plantation” is reproduced in fac-simile from a copy in the John Carter Brown Library, at Providence, R. I., through the courtesy of the Librarian, Mr. George Parker Winship. The third edition also has been reprinted from a copy in the library of the Massachusetts Historical Society for purposes of comparison and to preserve the additional matter that it contains. The account of the voyage to Neihum-kek and other writings of Higginson are from the manuscript formerly in the possession of Governor Hutchinson and now preserved by the Massachusetts Historical Society.
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| “New-Englands Plantation,” by Rev. Francis Higginson, London, 1630. Fac-simile of the first edition | [15] |
| “Generall Consideracons” for the planting of New England | [39] |
| The Agreement between Mr. Higginson and the New England Company | [49] |
| A true relation of the last voyage to New England in 1629 by Mr. Higginson | [55] |
| “New-Englands Plantation,” London, 1630. The third edition | [85] |
| A letter that Mr. Higginson sent to his friends at Leicester | [115] |
| Notes | [123] |
| Index | [127] |
NEW-ENGLANDS PLANTATION
NEW-ENGLANDS
PLANTATION.
OR,
A SHORT AND TRVE
DESCRIPTION OF THE
COMMODITIES AND
DISCOMMODITIES
of that Countrey.
Written by a reuerend Diuine now
there resident.