[677] Elliot, vol. 2, pp. 16, 17.
[678] The most common orthography is Arabella, but later writers almost unanimously reject this spelling, which is founded on the often erring authority of Mather in the Magnalia, and of Josselyn, and accept that of John Winthrop in his Diary, of Johnson in the “Wonder-working Providence,” and of Dudley’s Epistles. All of these men were personally intimate with Mrs. Johnson, and they must have known her name. See Winthrop, p. 1, note.
[679] Mather, Winthrop, Palfrey, Elliot, Hutchinson, etc., etc.
[680] Hist. of the Result of the American Colonies, vol. 1, p. 58.
[681] Winthrop’s Diary.
[682] This address is said to have been drawn by Mr. White. Palfrey.
[683] Elliot.
[684] Elliot.
[685] Winthrop’s Diary, p. 31.
[686] Ibid.