The founding of New England

by James Truslow Adams

[444]. J. Winthrop, History, vol. I, pp. 349, 365; Massachusetts Records, vol. I, p. 259.

[445]. C. M. Andrews, The Colonial Period (New York, 1912), p. 28.

[446]. Lechford, Plain Dealing, p. 97. Cf. Adams, Three Episodes, vol. I, p. 328 n. Some time before Blackstone settled, Winter, Trelawney's agent in Maine, thought of settling about Narragansett, and claimed that he had Warwick's permission to plant a colony. Trelawney Papers, vol. I, p. 20.

[447]. Williams's answer to the charges of Harris, in Rider, Rhode Island Tracts, No. 14 (Providence, 1888), p. 53. But Williams's statements are often contradictory.

[448]. R. I. Records (Providence, 1856), vol. I, pp. 14, 28.

[449]. Ibid., pp. 45 ff., 87, 129.

[450]. Ibid., pp. 100 ff. Cf. Foster, Town Government in Rhode Island, pp. 10 ff.

[451]. R. I. Records, vol. I, p. 14; Letter from Williams to Winthrop; Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., Series IV, vol. VI, pp. 186 f.

[452]. Foster, Town Government, p. 19.

[453]. Bradford, Plymouth, pp. 222, 233, 311.