[34] The very obscure sentence of Sir Ferdinando Gorges, written even later than Winthrop's one sentence, carries a like implication; but it contains such gross errors of chronology about external events that it can carry no weight at all as to motives of his adversaries (Mass. Hist. Society Collections, Third Series, VI, 80).
[35] Curiously, even Osgood, almost infallible in colonial history, refers only to Winthrop's sentence (with justifiable caution, to be sure), without any reference to the contrary evidence in the Records.
[36] This item is added by Higginson in his written acceptance of the above terms.
[XII. THE COLONY BECOMES A PURITAN ENTERPRISE]
58. Decision to Transfer the Charter to the Colony
a. First Official Proposition to Transfer the Charter to America
Records of the Governor and Company of Massachusetts Bay, I, 47-51.
A Generall Court, holden for the Company of the Mattachusetts Bay, in New England, at Mr. Deputies House, on Tewsday, the 28 of July, 1629.
- Present,
- Mr. Matthew Cradock, Governor,
- Mr. Thomas Goff, Deputie,
- Mr. George Harwood, Treasurer,
- Mr. Thomas Adams,
- Mr. Nathaniell Wright,
- Mr. Theophilus Eaton,
- Mr. Richard Perry,
- Mr. Joseph Bradshawe,
- Mr. Burnell,
- Mr. Rivet,
- Mr. Daniel Ballard,
- Mr. Spurstowe,
- Mr. Increase Noell,
- Mr. Symon Whetcombe,
- Mr. John Pococke,
- Mr. Colson,
- Mr. Hutchins,
- Mr. William Pinchon,
- Mr. Samuel Vassail, Assistants,
- Mr. Thomas Hewson,
- Mr. Woodgate,
- Mr. Web,
- Mr. Crane, Generalitie.
... [A long meeting with much business]