The founding of New England

by James Truslow Adams

[364]. The occasional few and unimportant exceptions do not affect the general statement.

[365]. Cf. H. B. Adams, The Germanic Origin of New England Towns, J. H. U. S., 1882; Id., Village Communities of Cape Anne and Salem, J. H. U. S., 1883; G. E. Howard, Local Constitutional History of the U. S., J. H. U. S., 1889. Too enthusiastic believers should read “The Survival of Archaic Communities,” in F. W. Maitland, Collected Papers (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1911), vol. II, pp. 313 ff.

[366]. Massachusetts Records, vol. I, p. 118.

[367]. Cf. J. H. Lefroy, On the Constitutional History of the Bermudas (Westminster, 1881), p. 6.

[368]. J. Winthrop, History, vol. I, p. 84.

[369]. Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., Series IV, vol. VI, p. 383. The italics are mine.

[370]. Winthrop was a lad of 19 in 1607, and Endicott but 16.

[371]. Acts Privy Council, Colonial, vol. I, p. 183.

[372]. J. Winthrop, History, vol. I, p. 122.

[373]. J. Winthrop, History, vol. I, p. 123 n.