[551] Bradford, Plymouth Plantation, pp. 89, 90; Brigham, Charter and Laws of New Plymouth, pp. 36, 49, 50, 241; 1 Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., iii. 56-64. For the discussion of questions of European and Aboriginal right to the soil, see Sullivan, History of Land Titles in Mass., Boston, 1801, and John Buckley’s “Inquiry, etc.,” 1 Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., iv. 159.
[552] But cf. Magazine of American History, 1883, p. 141; and Davis’s Ancient Landmarks of Plymouth, p. 61. I should add here that it has been recently suggested to me as a possible alternative, that this seal is that of the Council for the Northern Colony of Virginia.
[553] The name “Massachusetts,” so far as I have observed, is first mentioned by Captain Smith, in his Description of New England, 1616. He spells the word variously, but he appears to use the term “Massachuset” and “Massachewset” to denote the country, while he adds a final s when he is speaking of the inhabitants. He speaks of “Massachusets Mount” and “Massachusets River,” using the word also in its possessive form; while in another place he calls the former “the high mountain of Massachusit.” To this mountain, on his map, he gives the English name of “Chevyot Hills.” Hutchinson (i. 460) supposes the Blue Hills of Milton to be intended. He says that a small hill near Squantum, the former seat of a great Indian sachem, was called Massachusetts Hill, or Mount Massachusetts, down to his time. Cotton, in his Indian vocabulary, says the word means “a hill in the form of an arrow’s head.” See also Neal’s New England, ii. 215, 216. In the Massachusetts charter the name is spelled in three or four different ways, to make sure of a description of the territory. Cf. Letter of J. H. Trumbull, in Amer. Antiq. Soc. Proc., Oct. 21, 1867, p. 77; and Memorial History of Boston, i. 37.
[554] See S. F. Haven’s “Origin of the Massachusetts Company,” in Archæologia Americana, vol. iii.
[555] This matter is discussed by Dr. Haven in the Lecture above cited, pp. 29, 30; and by the present writer in Memorial History of Boston, i. 341-343, note. See also Gorges, Briefe Narration, pp. 40, 41.
[556] It is printed in Hutchinson’s Collection of Papers, 1769; and also in vol. i. of the Colony Records.
[557] See 4 Mass. Hist. Coll., vii. 159-161.
[558] [In six volumes, royal quarto; cf. Massachusetts Historical Society Lectures, p. 230; N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., 1848, p. 105; and 1854, p. 369. They were published at $60, but they can be occasionally picked up now at $25.—Ed.]
[559] [See Memoir and portrait in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., 1870, p. 1; cf. Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., xiv. 113; and Historical Magazine, xvii. 107.—Ed.]
[560] [Dr. Palfrey (vol. iii. p. vii) has pointedly condemned it, and the arrangement will be found set forth in the N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., 1848, p. 105. Besides much manuscript material (not yet put into print) at the State House, and in the Cabinet of the Historical Society, and the usual local depositories, mention may be made of some papers relating to New England recorded in the Sparks Catalogue, p. 215; and the numerous documents in the Egerton and other manuscripts, in the British Museum, as brought out in its printed Catalogues of Manuscripts, and Colonel Chester’s list of manuscripts in the Bodleian, in Historical Magazine, xiv. 131. Mr. S. L. M. Barlow, of New York, has an ancient copy of the Records of the Massachusetts Company (Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., iii. 36).