The founding of New England

by James Truslow Adams

[914]. C. A. Duniway, Development of Freedom of the Press in Massachusetts (Harvard University Press, 1906), pp. 22 ff.

[915]. Vide the appallingly theological and dreary catalogue of the Boston bookseller, Michael Perry, in John Dunton's Letters from New England (Prince Society, 1867), pp. 314 ff. The whole intellectual life of the period in England noted above is unrepresented by a single volume except Pilgrim's Progress.

[916]. Samuel Sewall, Diary, vol. I, p. 444.

[917]. Extracts, in Tyler, American Literature, vol. I, pp. 201, 208.

[918]. Letters to Increase Mather, in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., Series IV, vol. VIII, pp. 478, 314.

[919]. Cf. Queries upon the present state of the New English affairs, by S. E. (London, circa 1689); Sabin reprint, New York, 1865, p. 17.

[920]. Randolph wrote in Feb., 1686: “There are no small endeavors betwixt the Landed men and the Merct how to ease the publick Charges: The Mercts are for land Taxes, but Mr. Dudley, Stoughton and others who have gott very larg tracts of Land are for Laying all upon the trading party,” etc. Randolph Papers, vol. VI, p. 211.

[921]. A. J. Balfour, Foundations of Belief (New York, 1918), p. 227.

[922]. Cal. State Pap., Col., 1675-76, pp. 232 f.

[923]. Ibid., pp. 222 ff.