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

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“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.