[507] [Certain of the letters, being the correspondence between the Plymouth and New Netherland Colonies in 1627, are reprinted in the New York Hist. Coll., 2d series, vol. i. See an account of the MS. in Cheever’s Journal of the Pilgrims, chap. xxiii.—Ed.]
[508] [Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., i. 246, 279. S. G. Drake added a fifth part and an index to Baylies’, when he reissued the remainder-sheets of the original work, giving an account of the 1628 Kennebec patent, with an old map of that region. See, also, for the Pilgrims’ experiences on the Kennebec, R. H. Gardiner’s paper in the Maine Hist. Coll. ii., and the N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., 1855, p. 80, and 1871, pp. 201, 274; for their Penobscot experiences, J. E. Godfrey’s paper in Maine Hist. Coll. vii. 29.—Ed.]
[509] [An “Old Colony Historical Society,” whose seat is at Taunton, began to publish papers of a Collection in 1878. The local aspect of the colony’s history is traced in various town and parish histories, to which clews will be found in F. B. Perkins’s Check List of American Local History, Colburn’s Massachusetts Bibliography, and in the historical sketch prefixed to the Plymouth County Atlas, Boston, 1879.
These local histories usually contain more or less genealogical information about the descendants of the “first comers,” as those who came in the first three vessels (“Mayflower,” 180 tons, in 1620; “Fortune,” 55 tons, in 1621; “Ann,” 140 tons, and “Little James,” 44 tons, 1623) are distinctively called; and various family histories have also traced the spread of Pilgrim blood throughout the American States. Savage’s Geneal. Dict. of N. E., and the bibliographies of American genealogies by Whitmore and Durrie, will indicate these. Dr. N. B. Shurtleff published the long-accepted list of the “Mayflower” passengers in the N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., i. 47 (also separately privately printed); but several errors were corrected on the recovery of the Bradford manuscript, and the true list is printed in that History.—Ed.]
[510] [A memoir of Dr. Young by Chandler Robbins will be found in 4 Mass. Hist. Coll., ii. 241.—Ed.]
[511] N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., 1863, p. 366.
[512] [A Dutch translation of this, published in 1859, may indicate the interest still felt in the story in the land of their exile.—Ed.]
[513] Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., xiii. 390.
[514] See N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., i. 114.
[515] See Ibid., iv. 367.