The founding of New England

by James Truslow Adams

[538]. Jeremiah Dummer, A Defence of the New England Charters (London, 1721), p. 9.

[539]. J. Winthrop, History, vol. II, p. 21; cf. also pp. 8, 29, 37.

[540]. A very complete list of imports could be made up from the bills of lading of the ships arriving in 1640, given in Acts Privy Council, Colonial, vol. I, p. 268.

[541]. This was Winthrop's version: History, vol. II, p. 37.

[542]. Newton, Puritan Colonisation, pp. 287 ff.

[543]. Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., Series V, vol. I, p. 302; J. Winthrop, History, vol. I, pp. 399 f.

[544]. Manchester Papers, p. 424, cited by Newton, Puritan Colonisation, p. 292; J. Winthrop, History, vol. II, p. 15. There was also some movement the other way: 1200 persons are said to have gone from Barbadoes to New England from 1643 to 1647. Cal. State Pap., Col., 1661-68, p. 529.

[545]. J. Winthrop, History, vol. II, pp. 103 ff., 113, 156.

[546]. Century of Population, p. 9.

[547]. Letter in Connecticut Historical Society Collections, vol. I, pp. 4 ff.