The founding of New England

by James Truslow Adams

[293]. F. Higginson, New England's Plantation; Young, Chron. Mass., pp. 258 f.

[294]. C. Burrage, English Dissenters, vol. I, p. 357.

[295]. Master John Cotton's Answer to Master Roger Williams (Narraganset Club Publications, Providence, 1867, vol. II, p. 203).

[296]. R. Williams, Mr. Cotton's Letter examined and answered (Narraganset Club Publications[Publications], vol. I, p. 109).

[297]. Narraganset Club Publications, vol. II, p. 234.

[298]. Bradford, Plymouth, p. 265; Burrage thinks the Pilgrim influence slight, differing from most authorities. English Dissenters, vol. I, pp. 360 ff. Cf. W. Walker, History of Congregational Churches in U. S. (New York, 1894), pp. 101 ff.

[299]. Bradford, Plymouth, pp. 265 f. The covenant of 1629 and the enlarged one of 1636 are in W. Walker, Creeds and Platforms of Congregationalism (New York, 1893), pp. 116 ff. Cf. C. Burrage, The Church Covenant Idea (Philadelphia, 1904), pp. 88 ff.

[300]. Cf. T. Lechford, “Plain dealing or Newes from New England”; Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., Series III, vol. III, pp. 63-75.

[301]. John Cotton, The Way of the Churches of Christ in New England (London, 1645), p. 54.

[302]. Lechford, Plain Dealing, p. 143; A. E. McKinley, Suffrage Franchise in the Thirteen English Colonies (University of Pennsylvania Publications, 1905), p. 313.