[378] Address, etc., p. 5.
[379] Cf. W. B. O. Peabody on Cotton Mather’s diary in the Knickerbocker Mag., viii. 196. With the exception of a year’s record preserved in the Congregational library in Boston, what remains of the diary of Cotton Mather is now in the libraries of the American Antiquarian Society at Worcester, and of the Mass. Hist. Soc.,—as follows (A. meaning the Am. Antiq. Soc.; M., the Mass. Hist. Soc.; C., the Cong. lib.):—
1681, 83, 85, 86, M.; 1692, A.; 1693, M.; 1696, A.; 1697, 98, M.; 1699, A.; 1700, 1, 2, M.; 1703, A.; 1705, 6, M.; 1709, 11, 13, A.; 1715, 16, C.; 1717, A.; 1718, 21, 24, M. Cf. Sibley, Harvard Graduates, iii. 42; Mem. Hist. Boston, i. p. xviii.; ii. p. 301.
[380] Parts of it are printed in the Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., Jan., 1861.
[381] N. E. Hist. and Gen. Reg., 1870.
[382] Tuckerman’s America and her Commentators, p. 386; Historical Magazine, iii. 342.
[383] Reprinted in N. H. Hist. Coll., iii. He was in Boston in 1709, 1717, and 1720. Drake’s Boston, p. 537. The date of Uring’s book is sometimes 1726.
[384] There was a later edition in 1798 (much enlarged). Tuckerman’s America and her Commentators, p. 175.
[385] Quincy (Harv. Univ.) calls Turell’s Life of Benj. Colman “the best biography of any native of Massachusetts written during its provincial state.” Letters to and from Rev. Benj. Colman are preserved among the MSS. of the Mass. Hist. Society. Proc., x. 160-162.
[386] A cursory glance is given in H. W. Frost’s “How they lived before the Revolution” in The Galaxy, xviii. 200.