[223] But compare a paper by Geo. H. Moore in Boston Daily Advertiser, May 12, 1882.
[224] Cotton Mather would have it that the governor was not at fault, when he called him “a person born to make every one easy and happy, that his benign rays can reach unto,” as he said in a letter of Nov. 4, 1758, printed in the Flying Post of May 14-16, 1719. (Harv. Coll. lib., 10396.92.)
[225] See post, ch. vii., Shute’s letter to “Ralleé,” Feb. 21, 1718, in which he says that if war occurs it will be because of the urging of the popish missionaries. (Mass. Hist. Col., v.)
[226] Cf. Edw. Eggleston on “Commerce in the Colonies” in The Century, xxviii. 236; also Macy’s Nantucket. The practice of taking whales in boats from the shore is said to have been introduced into Nantucket by Ichabod Paddock from Cape Cod. “Nantucket men are the only New England whalers at present,” says Douglass (Summary, etc., 1747, vol. i. p. 59; also p. 296).
[227] J. L. Bishop’s Hist. of Amer. Manuf. (1861), i. p. 491.
[228] Cf. on parliamentary restrictions of their trade, Edw. Eggleston in The Century, vol. xxviii. p. 252, etc. See on industries of the province, Palfrey, iv. 429; Lodge’s Eng. Colonies, 410, 411; also the tracts: Brief account of the state of the Province of Mass. Bay, civil and ecclesiastical, by a lover of his country (1717), and Melancholy circumstances of the Province (1719). Cf. Haven in Thomas, ii. p. 382. Sir Josiah Child in 1677 had expounded for the first time the restrictive system in his New Discourse of Trade, which was not, however, published in London till 1694, but was various times reprinted later. He called New England “the most prejudicial plantation to the kingdom of England,” inhabited as it was “by a sort of people called puritans.” Cf. John Adams’ Works, x. 328, 330, 332; Scott, Development of Constitutional Liberty, 208. Otis in his speech on the Writs of Assistance cites Child, as well as Joshua Gee’s Trade and Navigation of Great Britain Considered (London, 1729), which was the first to make evident the policy of making the colonies subserve the public revenue, as they already under the navigation acts bettered the private trade of the mother country. This book was reprinted at London in 1730, 1738, and at Glasgow in 1735, 1760, and in “a new edition, with many interesting notes and additions by a merchant,” in 1767. Cf. John Adams’ Works, x. 335, 350; Scott, Development of Constitutional Liberty (1882), 216.
[229] They settled on the left bank of the Merrimac, and gave the name of Londonderry (whence in Ireland they came) to the new town. Cf. Parker’s Hist. of Londonderry, N. H.; and Maine Hist. Soc. Coll., vi. p. 1.
[230] Cf. Bishop’s Hist. of Amer. Manufactures, i. 331.
[231] Record Com. Rept., viii. 157.
[232] The Boston ministers, Mather, Wadsworth, and Colman, issued a flying sheet in 1719, A Testimony against Evil Customs, in which they regretted that ordinations, weddings, trainings, and huskings were made the occasion of unseemly merriment, and that lectures were not more generally attended. (Harv. Coll. lib., 10396.92.) Lodge (Short Hist. Eng. Colonies, 463) indicates the change which converted the simple burial of the early colonists to an ostentatious display in the provincial period.