[303]. Cotton, The Way of the Churches, p. 4.

[304]. T. Hutchinson, History of Massachusetts (Salem, 1795), vol. I, p. 19; Young, Chron. Mass., p. 168.

[305]. Hutchinson, History, vol. I, p. 19; Morton, New England's Memorial, pp. 100 f.

[306]. Young's epithets, in Chron. Mass., p. 160 n.

[307]. Massachusetts Records, vol. I, pp. 409, 407, 52, 54, 61, 69.

[308]. Newton, Puritan Colonisation, pp. 32 f.

[309]. Ibid., pp. 48, 50, 53, 95, 86. This island had been confused, until recently, with New Providence in the Bahamas.

[310]. Ibid., p. 47.

[311]. R. C. Winthrop, Life and Letters of John Winthrop (Boston, 1869), vol I, p. 296.

[312]. Ibid. vol. I, p. 286.