The founding of New England

by James Truslow Adams

[434]. Bradford, Plymouth, pp. 258 ff.

[435]. Acts Privy Council, Colonial, vol. I, p. 172; Bradford, Plymouth, p. 275.

[436]. Bradford, Plymouth, pp. 293 f.; J. Winthrop, History, vol. I, pp. 139, 184.

[437]. Bradford, Plymouth, pp. 332 ff.; J. Winthrop, History, vol. I, pp. 198, 200, 246; Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., Series III, vol. VIII, p. 192; Massachusetts Records, vol. I, pp. 160 f.

[438]. New Hampshire Provincial Papers (Concord, 1867), vol. I, p. 157.

[439]. C. W. Tuttle, Captain John Mason; Prince Society, Boston, 1887. The will and notes are on pp. 391-408.

[440]. New Hampshire Provincial Papers, vol. I, pp. 131 f. The Indian deed, formerly thought to have been obtained by Wheelwright for the land, is now generally considered spurious. Ibid., pp. 136 f. Cf., however, Bell (John Wheelwright, pp. 79 ff.), who contends that it was genuine.

[441]. J. Winthrop, History, vol. I, p. 350.

[442]. Massachusetts Records, vol. I, pp. 167, 271; J. Dow, History of Town of Hampton (Salem, 1893), vol I, pp. 7 f.

[443]. It is noteworthy that in 1633, in a letter to Secretary Coke, Emanuel Downing asked that the charter limits be extended a little to the north, where were the best firs and timber. Cal. State Pap., Col., 1675-76, p. 74.