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1607-1907
A Descriptive Catalogue
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THE MASSACHUSETTS EXHIBIT
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JAMESTOWN TER-CENTENNIAL
EXPOSITION
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PREFACE
The books described in this catah^gue are exhibited at the
Jamestown Ter-centennial Exposition, Hampton Roads, Vir-
ginia, by the Board of Jamestown Exposition Managers for
Massachusetts. The exhibit comprises specimens of all the
New England colonial printers, with one exception, namely,
Stephen Day. A copy of The Whole Booke of Psalmes^
printed at the Day press in Cambridge in 1G40, was offered
for exhibition, but since it would be impossible to replace it,
if by any chance it should be destroyed, the committee on
books decided not to assume the great responsibility, and
there was substituted a photographic facsimile. In this
strikins: exhibit there is also a collection of books of the
more prominent colonial writers, more especially those
Avhich illustrate the great questions which engrossed the
minds and thoughts of our seventeenth century ancestors,
and their discussions thereon.
No attempt has been made to include all of the early
writers, nor are the books exhibited simply because of
rarity. The intention is rather to show, by a judicious
selection, that American literatui-e began certainly as early
as the arrival of the Pilgrims and the Puritans on the shores
of New England, and tliat our early New England ancestors
were able to pi-oduce literature, not only in its widest sense,
but also in the more limited sense of belhvs Icttres, or ])()lite
literature, including poetry and history. We need mention
only a few of the writers of those times, such as Thomas
Shepard, John Cotton, John Morton, John Eliot, Nathaniel
Ward, Anne Bradstreet, Michael Wiggles worth, William
Hubbard, Increase and Cotton Mather. Their works on
history, biogi*aphy, philosophy and theology and their
poetry are in this exhibit. They tell of the many grave and
serious questions which confronted our colonial ancestors,
such as the evolution of a new system of church discipline,
the compilation of a code of laws, the subjugation and
civilization of the Indians, and the manner of dealing with
the witchcraft delusion.
The Board of Jamestown Exposition Managers for Massa-
chusetts make grateful acknowledgment to all who have
assisted in the preparation of this collection of books of
Massachusetts authors, printers and publishers, of the period
prior to the revolution, especially to the Society of Colonial
Dames, which has been untiring in its efforts to make the
exhibition worthy of the Commonwealth and that great
period in our history ; to the trustees of the several libraries ;
and to those who have generously lent their books and
manuscripts.
In a catalogue issued by the INIassachusetts Board of
Managers all the articles in the Colonial Loan Collection
sent to the exposition were enumerated, the books being
referred to simply by their title-pages. This catalogue has
been printed at the expense of Mr. Frederick L. Gay, and
the bibliographical and descriptive notes have been added
l)y Mr. George E. Littlefield, and to these gentlemen special
acknoAvleJirmcnt is due.
BOOKS
OF MASSACHUSETTS AUTHORS, PRINTERS AND
PUBLISHERS OF THE COLONIAL PERIOD.
147a. The Whole Booke of Psalmes Faithfully Translated
into English Metre. Whereunto is prefixed a
discourse declaring not only the lawfullness,
but also the necessity of the heavenly Ordi-
nance of singing Scripture Psalmes in the
Churches of God. . . . Imprinted 1(540.
Lent by Mr. Frederick L. Gay.
A photographic facsimile of the earliest issue of the Cambridge
press. All the copies known to be extant of the original issue do not
exceed ten, only four of which are perfect. From whatever point of
view it is looked at, it is considered one of the world's most precious
books.
The translation from the original Hebrew began in 1G36. Cotton
Mather explains the necessity for the translation as follows: "The
New English reformers, considering that tlieir churches enjoyed the
other ordinances of Pleaven in their scriptural ])urity, were willing
that the ordinance of 'the singing of psalms' should be restored
among them unto a share in that purity." Having determined upon
a new version the chief divines of the country took each ol' them a
portion to be translated. The men most prominent in the translation
were Richard Mather of Dorchester, John Kliot of Roxbury and
'J'homas Welde of Hoxbury.
The philological experJenc^e gained in making this translation was
ol great benefit to Eliot when a lew years later he was engaged in
translating books into the Indian language.
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148. [Mather, Cotton.] Eatio Discipline Fratrum Nov-
Anglorum. A Faithful Account of the Disci-
pline professed and pi-acticed ; in the Churches
of New-England. With Interspersed and In-
structive Reflections on the Discipline of the
Primitive Churches. Boston : Printed for S.
Gerrish in Cornhill. 1726.
Lent by Mrs. Dwight Foster.
Although his name does not appear upon the title-page, yet in the
Postscript Cotton Mather " does here own himself the author of the
book and annex and subscribe his name unto it " He calls it a
" Historical Ri'lation in which it is shown that what is practiced in the
New England churches is in accord with the Platform of Church Dis-
cipline agreed upon by the Elders and Messengers in the Synod at
Cambridge in 1648, and that this practice agrees with the practices of
the Apostolic times and of the Christians in the age next unto the
Apostles. That it was not on account of the fundamentals in doctrines
that our fathers came into the wilderness, but in regard to church
order and discipline.'" His object in writing the book was to give to
those who wished well to the Xew England churches, wherever they
might be, an account of the churches here, and to show what they
were and what they did. In the Introduction he gives a full account
of the faith and principles, and in the body of the book the methods
and customs of the New England churches. In their practices the
Congregational chui'ches of the present day vary but little from the
principles laid down in this manual. At the end of the Introduction,
written as early as 1719, he says : " Let it be remembered ; the Indians
in the Massachusetts Province are all Christianized except the Eastern
salvages, which have been anti-christianized by the Popish Mission-
aries." In 1724, two 3'ears before this book was published, a check
was given to the Popish Mission by sending a force of two hundred
and eight New England men through the woods, who killed Father
Rasle, with thirty of the Abenaki Indians, and destroyed the Indian
village of Norridjirewock.
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149. Lyon, James. Urania, or A Choice Collection of
Psalm-Tunes, Anthems, and Hymns, From the
most approv'd Authors, with some Entirely
New ; in Two, Three, and Four, Parts. The
whole Peculiarly adapted to the Use of Churches,
and Private Families : To which are Prefix'd
The Plainest, & most Necessary Rules of
Psalmody. By James Lyon A. B. Hen. Daw-
kins fecit 1761 Philad'! Price 15/".
Lent by Mrs. Dwight Foster.
The largest musical book that had been published in the colonies,
and which is said to have ruined the publisher. It was handsomely
engraved by Henry Dawkins, and printed on excellent English paper.
It contained the first music of a fuguing style ever published in this
countrv.
150. [Eliot's Indian Bible.] Mamusse Wunneetupana-
tamwe Up-Biblum God Naneeswe Nukkone
Testament Kah Wonk Wusku Testament. Ne
quoshkinnumuk nashpe AVuttinncumon Christ
noh asoowesit John Eliot. Nahohtocu outchetot
Printeuoomuk. Cambridge : Printenoop nashpe
Samuel Green. MDCLXXXV.
Lent by Boston Atlicncnim.
A monument to the patience, perseverance and erudition of Rev.
John Eliot, the Roxbury minister, and Apostle to the Indians. The
production of this book required nearly twenty years of constant
labor. In order to Christianize the Indians Eliot found it necessary
to learn the Indian language, lie familiarized himself with their
manners and customs, and acquired tlieir language by conversations
on all subjects. As they had no written language he was obliged to
construct one for them, in which task lie was greatly assisted by an
intelligent Indian who had been taken prisoner in the recpiot war,
and whom he engagc<l as a servant in Jiis own family. He also
taught the Indians to read and write, and educated souk? young In-
dian youth to go among the other Indians as missionaries. Kliot
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especially desired and ardently longed for printed copies of the Holy
Bible in the Indian language, into which he had translated it, but
the expense of printing forbade. The matter, however, was brought
to the attention of the Cor^yoration for the Promoting and Propagat-
ing the Gospel of Jesus Christ in New England, a society which had
been formed in London in 1649 for the advancement of civilization
and Christianity among the Indians. It agreed to assume the ex-
pense of printing, and in 1661 the New Testament was published at
Cambridge, Mass., having been printed by Samuel Green, the local
printer, and Marmaduke Johnson, an expert Elnglish printer, who
had been sent over by the corporation for that purpose. In 1663
the Old Testament was published by the same printers, and Eliot's
long-cherished desire of seeing the Bible printed in the Indian lan-
guage was gratified.
So many copies were used up by the Indians and destroyed in
King Philip's war that a second edition was published in Cambridge
by Samuel Green in 1685, also at the expense of the London corpora-
tion, a copy of which is here exhibited.
According to the list of owners of copies of the Indian Bible, pre-
pared by Mr. Wilberforce Eames of the Lenox Library in the city of
New York, only one absolutely perfect copy of the first edition is
known to be in existence.
151. [The Massachusetts Code.] The Book of the
General Laws and Libertves concerninff the
Inhabitants of the Massachusets, collected out
of the Kecords of the General Court, for the
several 3^ears wherein they Avere made and
established. And Xow Revised by the same
Court, and disposed into an Alphabetical order,
and published by the same Autiiority in the
General Court holdcn at Boston in May 1649.
Cambridge, Printed according to the Order of
the (jeneral Court, 1660.
Jjcnt hy Boston Athena-um.
The first revision of the laws of the colony of Massachusetts, and,
until within a year, the first extant is.sue of these law.s^.
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On the 19th of October, 1630, it was voted " by the general vote of
tlie people and erection of hands"' that the Governor and Deputy
Govemor, with the Assistants, "should have the power of making
laws and choosing officers to execute the same/' But in 1634 the
freemen of the colony desired to take a part in the government, and at
the meeting of the General Court in May it was voted that each town
should choose two or three deputies to represent it at the General
Court, and that none but the General Court should make and establish
laws. No general code had been established, and on May 6, 1635, the
General Court voted that the Governor, Deputy Governor and Thomas
Dudley should prepare " A draught of such laws as they shall judge
useful for the well ordering of this plantation and present the same
to the Court. At the General Court, May 25, 1636, a committee of
nine persons, including John Cotton, Hugh Peter and Thomas Shep-
ard, was " entreated to make a draught of laws agreeable to the word
of God," and to present the same to the next General Court. On
October 25 Mr. Cotton presented a copy of Moses his Jiidicials,
compiled in an exact method, which was referred to the next coiut.
No action was taken on it, and nothing appears to have been done by
these committees. At the General Court begun March 12, 1637/8, it
was ordered that the towns should send in draughts of laws, which
shovdd be examined by a committee, of which Rev. Nathaniel Ward
was one, and have an abridgment made, to bo presented to the Gen-
eral Court for confirmation or rejection. According to Winthrop's
Journal, under date of November, 1639, " .Mr Cotton and Mr. Na-
thaniel Ward, each of them framed a model which was presented to
this General Court." The plan proposed by Ward was adopted in
1641 by the General Court. It is known as the Body of Liberties,
and is the foundation of the legislation of Massachusetts. It was not
printed, but nineteen copies were transcribed and sent to the several
towns. The first laws to be printed were The Capital Laws, which
were ordered by the General Court as follows : " 1642, 14 June. It
is ordered that such laws as make any offence capital shall forthwith
be imprinted and published." No copy is known to be in existence.
The Body of Liberties, however, was only a temporary affair,
and committees were appointed at the various General Courts "to
consider of the Body of Liberties . . . what is fit to be repealed or
allowed, and present the same to the next Court." It was not until
1648 that the revision of the Body of Liberties was completed and
printed. It was ready Oct. 27, 164«, as on that date it is '• ordered by
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the full Court that the books of laws now at the press may be sold in
quires at three shillings the book."
So completely had the copies of this edition passed out of sight that
it was supposed to be a lost book, but in 1906 a copy was found in
England and has been brought to New York.
153. [Endicott, John.] The Humble Petition and Ad-
dress of the General Court sitting at Boston
in New-England, unto The Higli and Mighty
Prince Charles the second And presented unto
His Most-Gracious Majesty Feb. 11. 1660
Printed in the Year 1660.
Lent by Mr. William C. Endicott.
Charles the Second was proclaimed the lawful King of England
May 29, 1660. The news of the restoration reached Boston in
July, and in August he was formally proclaimed in the colony. At a
meeting of the General Court on the 19th of December, " It is ordered
that an address be made to the king's most excellent majesty as also
to the high court of Parliament." The Humble Peiitw7i contains
that address, which was duly sent and presented to the King Feb. 11,
1660/1.
In it the General Court asked " for your gracious protection of us
in the continuance both of our civil as well as our religious liberties
conferred upon this plantation by your royal father. . . . Touching
complaints put against us, our humble request is . . . your majesty
would permit nothing to make an impression on your royal heart
against us until we have both opportunitj' and leave to answer for
ourselves," etc.
The petition was well received, and on tlie 15th of February,
1660/1, King Charles sent a letter to Governor Endicott, in which he
acknowledges the receipt of the petition, expresses appreciation of
the sentiments contained in it and promises that " we shall not come
behind any of our royal i)redecessors in a just encouragement and
protection of all our loving subjects there whose application unto us,
since our late happy restoration hath been very acceptable," etc.
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160. [Mather, Richard. Cambridge Platform.] A Con-
fession of Faith Owned and consented unto
by the Elders and Messengers of the Churches.
Assembled at Boston in Xew-Enirland. May
12. 1680 Being the second Session of that
Synod Boston, Printed by John Foster. 1680.
Lent by 21 r. W. G. Shillaber.
The Pilgrims who came to Plymouth in 1620 were separatists.
The Puritans who came to Salem in 1628 were non-conformists, and,
as Rev. Mr Higginson is declared to have said, " did not go to New
England as Separatists from the Church of England, though we can-
not but sepai-ate from the corruption in it. But we go to practice the
positive part of the Church Reformation and propa<:ate the Gospel in
America." When, however, separated from England by a vast ocean,
the Salem company attempted to eft'ect a church organization, the
brethren were glad to consult with the Plymouth brethren, and
eventually to build their church substantially upon the lines of the
Plymouth church. Other churches were formed upon the same
model, and in 1640 there were thirty-five Congregational churches in
New England. In the formation of these churches, however, each
company acted its own preference, so that, amid general unity, there
was slight variety.
About 1645, according to Cotton Mather, " it became convenient
that the Churches of New England should have a system of discipline
extracted from the word of God and exhibited unto them, with a
more effectual, acknowledged, and established recommendation : and
nothing but a Council was proper to compose the system."
In May, 1646, the General Court desired that the churches of
Massachusetts send their elders and messengers to sit in a synod at
Cambridge on the first of Septeml)er next ensuing, 'to discuss,
dispute and clear up by the word of (Jod such (piestions of church
government and discipline." To this synod the churches of Tlym-
outh, (Connecticut and New Ilavcn were invited to send delegates.
The synod opened at the ap[)ointed time, and after .sitting a IbrI night
adjourned to June 8, 1647, having appointed John Cotton, Richard
Mather and Ralph Partridge each a comniiltee of one to draw up a
plan of a scriptural model of church government, so that the three
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might be compared. When the synod met in June, 1647, an epidemi-
cal sickness caused it to be adjourned until the 15th of August, 1648,
at which it " settled down substantially upon Mr. Mather's draught of
a Platform." In 1649, the result of the synod having been put into
print, it was " presented to the churches and General Court for their
consideration and acceptance in the Lord." In October, 1649, the
(iieneral Court commended it to the cluirches and asked if they
approved it. Upon receiving favorable replies, in 1651 it voted "to
give their testimony to the said book of discipline, that for the sub-
stance thereof, it is that we have practised and do believe." It is
known as the " Cambridge Platform," and was reprinted in 1671 and
1680.
1(U. [Mather, Increase.] A Sermon Wherein is Shewed,
I That the Ministers of the Gospel need, and
ought to desire the Prayers of the Lord's People
for them. II That the People of God ought to
Pray for His Ministers. Preached at Koxbury,
October 29, 1718. When Mr. Thomas AValter
Was Ordained a Pastor in that Church, by his
Grand-Father Increase Mather. D.D. Boston :
Printed by S. Kneeland for J. Edwards, at his
Shop next door to the Light-House Tavern (,in
King-street. 1718)
Lent by Mr. W. G. Shillabcr.
The son of Rev. Nehemiah Walter, the colleague of Rev. John
Eliot, the Apostle to the Indians, and grandson of Rev Increase
Mather. He was born in 1696, graduated at Harvard College in 1713
and was ordained as colleague with his father Oct. 29, 1718. " He
was a distinguished scholar, a popular preacher, and a keen dis-
putant," He was very much interested in music, and published in
1721 The Grounds and Rules of Music explained, one of the first
music books published in this country.
1()2. Moodey, Samuel. The Doh'ful State of the Damned ;
Especially such as go to lloll From under the
Gospel ; Aggravated from their Apprehensions
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of the Saints Happiness in Heaven. Being the
Substance of several Sermons. Preached at
York, in the Province of Main. By Samuel
Moodey, M. A. Pastor of the Church of Christ
there. Boston : Printed & Sold by Timothy
Green in Middle Street. Also Sold by Benj.
Eliot in King Street. 1710
Lent by Mr. W. G. ShiUabcr.
A work by the most eccentric of the early Xew England divines
as to his ways and manners, but very successful in his ministry. He
was bom at Newbury, Mass., in 1676 ; graduated at Harvard College
in 1697 ; was ordained minister at York, Me., in 1700 ; and died Nov.
13, 1747. The whole period of his ministry was marked by agitation
and peril from incursions of the French and Indians. He was chap-
lain in PepperelPs Cape Breton expedition.
In his ministry he was fired with religious zeal and was a great
friend of revivals, and his church was prominent in the great re-
ligious awakening excited by Whitfield in 1741. Many of his strange
sayings are still quoted, and anecdotes told by him in the pulpit are
frequently repeated. His printed sermons had curious titles, among
which were The Vain Youth summoned to appear at Christ's liar ;
Doleful State of the Damned; Judas the Traitor hung in Chains; Ser-
mon on the Way to get out of Debt and the Way to keep out of Debt.
163. The Boston Director3\ containing A List of the
Merchants, Mechanics, Traders, and others, of
the Town of Boston ; in Order to enable
Strangers to find the Residence of any Per-
son. To which is added. Public OfEces,
where, and by whom kept. Barristers and
Attorneys at Law, and where Residing. Physi-
cians, Surgeons, and their places of Abode,
President, Directors, days and hours of lousi-
ness at the Bank. Names and places of al)<)de
of all the Hniriiic-men. Illustrated witii a Plan of
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the Town of Boston, Boston : Printed and sold
by John Norman, at (Ol)ivers-Dock. 1789
Lent by Mr. W. G. SMllaber.
The first Boston Directory. No better illustration of the growth
of Boston during the last one hundred and twenty years can be given
than by comparing this little Directury with the huge Directory of
the present year,
164. Torrey, Samuel. A Plea For the Life of Dying
Religion from the Word of the Lord : in a Ser-
mon Preached to the General Assembly of the
Colony of the Massachusets at Boston in New-
England, May 16. 1683. Being the Day of
Election there. By Mr. Samuel Torrey Pastor
of the Church of Christ at Waymouth. Boston-
in-New-England Printed by Samuel Green for
Samuel Sewall. 1683.
Lent by Mr. W. G. Shillaber.
John Winthrop, in his Journal, makes the following record:
"(1634 May) 14. At the general court, Mr. Cotton preached, and
delivered this doctrine, that a magistrate ought not to be turned into
the condition of a private citizen without just cause, and to be publicly
convict, no more than the magistrates may not turn a private man
out of his freehold, without like public trial, etc."
Whether or not this was the first election sermon does not appear,
but apparently from that year until recently the custom of having a
sermon at the general election has continued
The first jjrinted election sermon is The Cause of God and his Peo}:)le
in New England as it was stated and discussed in a Sermon preached
before the JIonouralAc General Court of the Massachusetts Colony on the
27 day of May ItJGIi. Iking the Day of Election at BostoJi. By John
nigginso'n Pastor of the Church of Christ at Salem, Cambridg :
Printed by Samuel (Irccn 1(103.
It has always been the custom of the minister to discuss on these
occasions what was uppermost in the minds of the people, and in this
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long series of sermons is mirrored, as it were, the great burning
questions which have agitated the public mind for two hundred and
fifty years.
180. [Steere, Richard.] The Daniel Catcher. The
Life of the Prophet Daniel : in a Poem. To
which is Added Earth's Felicities, Heaven's
Allowances, A Blank Poem. With several other
Poems. By R. S. Printed in the Year 1713.
Lent by Mr. Frederick L. Gay.
The author was Richard Steere, who was bom in England in 1643,
and who is supposed to have come to Boston as early as 1675. He
made a trip to England in 1683, returning to Eoston in 1684. He
gave to Richard Pierce, the Boston printer, the manuscript of two
long poems, which he had written while on the voyage and which
were published in 1684. In 1713 Mr. Steere sent to John Allen, an-
other Boston printer, the manuscript of a poem entitled The Daniel
Catcher, which was printed in that year. Both of these volumes of
poetry have considerable merit, and although no other works of his
are known to be in existence, it is hard to believe that these are his
only publications. Of the book published in 1684 one copy only is
known to be extant, and of the one published in 17 '3 only two copies
are known.
181. [Eliot, John?] New Englands First Fruits; in
respect First of
[ Conversion of some 1
the j Conviction of divers [ of the Indians.
[ Preparation of sundry j
2. Of the progresse of Learning, in the Cbl-
ledge, at Cambridge, in ]Massaeu.sets Bay. with
Divers otlicr speciall Matters concerning that
Countrey. Published by the iii.stant recjucst
of sundry Friends, Avho desu-e to be satisfied
in these point.^ by many New-England Men who
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are here present, and were eye or eare- witnesses
of the same. London, Printed by R. O. and
G. D. for Henry Overton, and are to be sold
at his Shop in Popes- -head- -Alley. 1643
Lent by Mr. Frederick L. Gay.
The first of a series of tracts relating to the conversion of the
aborigines in New England. The author is not known, but it has
been ascribed to Rev. John Eliot. Among the authors of the other
tracts were Rev. John Wilson, Rev. Thomas Shepard, Gov. Edward
Winslow, Rev. Henry Whitfield and others. These tracts are known
as the " Eliot Tracts," and the accounts which they gave of the suc-
cess these ministers had met with, notwithstanding the difiiculties
under which they labored, were read with interest by friends in Eng-
land to whom they were addressed, and an appeal to Parliament was
made for aid in the cause. It resulted in the formation in 1649 of a
Corporation for the Propagation of the Gospel in New England,
which contributed large sums for the edutation of the Indians, and
paid the expenses of publishing books translated into the Indian
language.
Neia Englands First Fruits is extremely interesting, and con-
tains the first reliable information concerning the progress of educa-
tion in the New England colony. The text consists of twenty-six
pages, nearly half of which are devoted to the founding of Harvard
College, the first extended account we have of that institution of
learning. The first paragraph reads in part : —
" After God had carried us safe to New England and we had
builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood reared
convenient places for God's worship and settled the civil government ;
one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance
learning and perpetuate it to posterity, dreading to leave an illiterate
ministry to the Churches, when our present ministers .shall lie in the
dust. And as we were thinking and consulting how to efi'ect this
great work ; it pleased (iod to stir up the heart of one Mr. Harvard (a
godly gentleman) to give us one half of his estate towards the erec-
tion of a College, and all his library. . . . The College was by com-
mon consent, appointed to be at Cambridge (a place very pleasant
and accommodate) and is called (according to the name of the first
founder) Harvard College."
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228. Flavell, John. Englands Duty, Under the Present
Gospel Liberty From Revel. III. vers. 20.
Wherein is Opened The Admirable Condescen-
sion and Patience of Christ, in waiting upon
tri(fl)ing and obstinate Sinners. The wretched
State of the Unconverted. The nature of the
Evangelical Faith, with the Difficulties, Tryals,
and Means thereof. The Riches of Free-grace
in the Offers of Clirist, Pardon, and Peace to the
worst of Sinners. The invaluable Priviledo:es of
Union, and Communion, granted to all that re-
ceive him, and the great Duty of opening to him
at the present Knocks and Calls of the Gospel ;
with the danger of neglecting these Loud (and
it may be) last Knocks and Calls of Christ, dis-
covered. By John Flavell, Preacher of the
Gospel at Dartmouth in Devon. (Lon)don
Printed for Matthew Wotton at the Three
(Da)ggers near the Inner-Temple Gate in
Fleetstreet, 1089
Lent by Mr. Nathan H. Withington, Kewhurii jtort, Mass.
Interesting as an early '-association book." having been presented
by Judge Samuel Sewall to Rev. John Eliot of Roxbury. Judge
Sewall, having been absent in England a year, returned to IJostoa,
Dec 2, 1689, and immediately resumed his Diartj
December 17, he gave Mr. Mather " two Duzen books bound, viz.
Right thoughts, &c Sermons to his Father Pliillips, and on the Ark."
March 1, 1^89/ 9fi, " 1 visit Mr. i^liot who embraces me heartily and
calls me Brother: I present him with Mr. FlavelTs I'.ook : England's
Duty (under the present Gospel liberty) "
May 21, 1690, "Mr. Eliot dies about one in tlic morning."
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229. Freemen's Oath. Historical Manuscripts and Re-
prints, No. 3. July 1894 Fac-simile of the
First Draft of the Freemen's Oath, in the
Handwriting of Governor John Winthrop, and
of the Servant's Oath together with a Modifica-
tion of the Freemen's Oath, Both in the Hand-
writing of Governor Thomas Dudley, with a
Note by the Hon. Mellen Chamberlain, LL.D.
Lent hy The Public Library of Boston.
"The Freemen's Oath," first printed in 1638, was the first issue of
the press sent to the Massachusetts Bay Colony by the Rev. Jose.
Glover and set up in Cambridge, as an appendage to the college.
It was printed on a half sheet of small paper. No copy is known to
be extant.
This was the oath which every man over twenty years of age, and
six months a householder, was obliged to take in order to become a
freeman of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay.
Previous to 1638 all the copies were written, and the copy ex-
hibited is a photographic facsimile of one written by Gov. .John
Winthrop, now in the possession of the Boston Public Library.
230. TuUey, John. Tulley 1698. An Almanack For
the Year of our Lord, MDCXCVHI. Being
Second after Leap-Year, and from the Creation
5647. Wherein is Contained the Lunations,
Courts, Spring-tides, Planets, Aspects and
Weather, the Rising and the Setting of the
Sun, together with the Sun and Moons place,
and time of Full Sea, or High- Water, with an
account of the Eclipses, Conjunctions, and
other Contiguratious of the CiX'lestial Bodies,
Calculated for and fitted to the ]\reridian of
Boston in New-England, wliero the North Pole
is Elevated 42. gr. 30 min. But may indiffer-
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ently serve any part of New-England. By John
Tulley, Licensed l)y xVuthority. Boston, N. E.
Printed by Bartholomew Green, and John
Allen, Sold at the Printing-House at the South
End of the Town 1(398.
Lent by The Public Library of Boston.
The compilation of almanacs or calendars antedates the Christian
era by thousands of years. The earliest written Christian almanac
known is the "Almanac of 354," issued while Liberius was Pope.
What is considered to be the first printed almanac is the " Calendar
of 1457," printed at Mentz by Gutenberg, of which only half a single
copy is known to be extant.
The second issue of the Cambridge press was the " Almanac of
1639," compiled by the celebrated shipmaster, William Pierce, at one
time captain of the famous ship " Mayflower " No copy is known to
be in existence. Any American almanac printed previous to 1700 is
extremely scarce and commands a liigh price.
231. Stone, Samuel. A Short Catechism Drawn out of
the Word of God By Samuel Stone, Minister
of the Word at Ilartftn'd, on Connecticot.
Boston, ill New-England, Printed by Samuel
Green, for John Wadsworth of Farminton,
1684. Reissued, with an Introductory Sketch,
from the Origiiuil Edition printed in IGSl,
Acorn Club Connecticut :vIDCCCXCIX.
Lent by The Public Librarij of Bosftni.
Every child in early days was ex))e(ted to be able to say tlie
catechism. The masters of the families were especially enjoined by
the board of assistants either per.'^onally to tearli, or to employ a lit
person to teach, the younger jjoilion of their families the catecliisin,
Even before they could read tlie cliildron were al)le to say the
catechism. The catechism became one of the mo.-t iinportaiit school
books, and from it thousands of cliildiim learned to spell and read.
In 1G41 the General Court of Massachn.setls '-desired that the
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elders would make a catechisme for the instruction of youth in the
grounds of religion," but although nearly every minister tried his
hand in compiling a catechism, no one catechism was ever adopted
for general use. Notwithstanding many kinds of catechisms were
printed, both here and abroad, yet very few have come down to us,
and of many of them every trace is lost.
The author of the " Catechism " exhibited was the Rev Samuel
Stone, who came to New England in 1633. Going to Cambridge with
Hooker, he removed with him to Hartford, where he was teacher of
the church from 1636 till his death, in 1663. Two copies only of the
original edition are known.
233. Foxcroft, Thomas. Observations, Historical and
Practical on the Rise and Primitive State of
New-England With a special Referance to The
Old or first gather'd Church in Boston. A Ser-
mon preach'd to the said Congregation Aug.
23, 1730. Being the last Sabbath of the first
Century since its Settlement, By Thomas Fox-
croft, M.A. Boston. N. E. Printed by S.
Kneeland & T. Green, for S. Gerrish in Corn-
hill MDCCXXX
Lent by The Public Library of Boston.
Owing to the prevalence of smallpox the town government did not
take any action for a general celebration of the close of the first cen-
tury of the settlement of Boston. It was, however, not allowed to
pass unobserved. At the May session of the General Court Rev.
Thomas Prince preached the election sermon, which is full of historical
information. In it he says : " How extremely proper it is upon the
close of the First Century of our settlement in this chief part of the
land, which will now within a few weeks expire, to look back to
the beginning of this remarkable transaction."' The Thursday lec-
ture, 1730/1, preached by Rev. John Webb, "in the Time of the Ses-
sions of the Great and (General Court,"'' which, when published, has
for a title "The Great Concern of New England,"' is much of the
nature of a century sermon. The title-page of the sermon by 'Mr.
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Foxcroft shows that it was written expressly for the occasion, and is
therefore entitled to the honor of being our first centennial sermon.
It was preached on the last Sabbath of the first century since the set-
tlement of Boston, Aug. 23, 1730. It contains the covenant of the
First Church, which reads : —
"We whose names are here underwritten, being by his most wise
and good Proyidence brought together into this part of America, in
the Bay of Massachusetts, and desirous to unite ourselves into one
Congregation or Church under the Lord Jesus Christ our Head, in
such sort as becometh all those whom he hath redeemed and satisfied
to himself, do hereby solemnly and reli;j;iously (as in his most holy
presence) promise and bind ourselves to walk in all our ways accord-
ing to the rule of the gospel, and in all sincere conformity to his holy
ordinances, and in mutual love and respect, each to other, so near as
God shall give us grace."
235. Mather, Cotton. The Wonders of the Invisible
World, Observations As well Historical as The-
ological, upon the Nature, the Number, and the
Operations of the Devils. Accompany'd with,
I. Some Accounts of the Grievous Molesta-
tions, by Daemons and Witchcrafts, which have
lately annoy'd the Countrey ; and the Trials of
some eminent Malefactors Executed upon occa-
sion thereof: with several Remarkable Curiosi-
ties therein occurring. II. Some Councils
Directing a due Improvement of the terrible
things, lately done, by the Unusual & Amazing
Eange of Evil-Spirits, in Our Neighbourhood :
& the methods to prevent the Wrongs which
those Evil Angels may intend against all sorts
of people among us ; especially in Accusations
of the Innocent. III. Some Conje(^tures upon
the great Events, likely to befall, the World in
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General, and New-England in Particular ; as
also upon the Advances of the Time, when we
shall see Better Dayes. IV. A short Narra-
tive of a late Outrage committed by a knot of
Witches in Swedeland, very much Resembling,
and so far Explaining, That under which our
parts of America have laboured ! V. The
Devil Discovered : In a Brief Discourse upon
those Temptations, which are the more Ordi-
nary Devices of the Wicked One. By Cotton
Mather. Boston. Printed by Bcnj. Harris for
Sam. Phillips. 1G93.
Lent hy The Public Library of Boston.
One of the most important of the books relating to the Salem
witchcraft delusion. It was replied to by llobert Calef, a merchant
of Boston, in More Wonders of the Invisible World, published in
1700. The plain facts and common-sense arguments completely re-
futed Mather, and contributed most essentially to a change of public
opinion. Increase and Cotton Mather, however, did not change their
opinions ; the former, as president of Harvard College, ordered
Calef's book to be burned in the college yard, and the latter insinu-
ated that Calef could get his "vile volume" published in London,
while his own books, " sent over to p]ngland, with a design to
glorify the Lord Jesus Christ are not published but strangely
delayed."
236. Ilale, John. A Modest Enquiry Into the Nature of
Witchcraft, And How Persons Guilty of that
Crime may be Convicted : And the means used
for their Discovery Discussed, both Negatively
and Affirmatively, according to Scripture and
Experience. By John Hale, Pastor of the
Church of Christ in Beverley vVimo Domini.
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1697. Boston in N. E. Printed by B. Green,
and J. Allen, for Benjamin Eliot under the
Town House, 1702.
Lent hy The Public Library of Boston.
The rarest of all the works relating to the New England witch-
craft delusion. Rev. John Hale was minister of the church of Bev-
erly during the witchcraft proceedings, and believed the devil could
enter a house through a kejhole. He was active in prosecuting the
witches until in October, 1692, his own wife was accused of witch-
craft. This was a personal application of the delusion which had
not been contemplated, and caused him to view it from a different
standpoint. Of course his wife could not be a witch, and the spell
was broken. The results of his investigations Avere published in
1702 in A Modest Inquiry, &c. After discussing the subject of
witchcraft, in the closing chapter he says : " We have cause to be
humbled for the mistakes and errors which have been in these colo-
nies, in their proceedings^against persons for this crime above forty
years and downwards, but I would come yet nearer to our times, and
bewail the errors and mistakes that have been in the year 1692 ; in
the apprehending to many we may believe were innocent, executing
of some, I fear, not to have been condemned."
237. Mason, John. A Brief History of thePequot War :
Especially Of the memorable Taking of their
FortatMistick in Connecticut In 1637 : Written
by Major John Mason, A principal Actor therein,
as then chief Captain and Commander of Con-
necticut Forces. With an Introduction and
some Explanatory Notes P>y the Reverend Mr.
Thomas Prince. Bo.ston : Printed & Sold by.
S. Kneeland & T. Green in Queen-Street, 1736.
Lent by The Public Library of Boston.
An official account of our first groat Indian war, written by the
commanding officer therein. Cai)t. Jo!in Mason was l)orii in iMi'^iand
in 1600, and died at Norwich, Conn., in 1672. He served in fbe
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Netherlands under Fairfax, who esteemed him so highly as to in-
vite him by letter to join his standard in the civil war. He came to
Dorchester in 1630, but removed to Windsor in 1638. The principal
event of the Pequot war, which was confined to the limits of the terri-
tory now known as Connecticut, was the destruction of the Indian
fort at Mystic, In jNIay, 1637, Mason led a force of ninety white men
and several hundred Indians under Uneas and Miantonomah against
the fort, which they succeeded in surprising. Entering it while the In-
dians were asleep, they set tire to the wigwams and killed six hun-
dred of the fleeing Indians, men, women and children, losing only
two of their own men. Being joined by some troops from Massa-
chusetts under Captain Underbill, the Indians were pursued, many
were killed and others taken prisoners, some of whom were sold
into the West Indies as slaves. By these disasters the formidable
tribe of the I'equots was nearly annihilated.
After the war Mason removed to Saybrook, and at the request of
the General Court he drew up and published a history of the Pequot
war. It was reprinted, with notes l)y Rev. Thomas Prince, in 1736.
238. Se wall, Samuel. Phenomena qutedam Apocalyptica
Ad Aspectum Novi Orbus configurata. Or,
some few Lines towards a description of the
New Heaven As It makes to those who stand
upon the New Earth. By Samuel Se Avail A. M.
and sometime Fellow at Harvard College at
Cambridge in New-England. The Second Edi-
tion. Massachuset ; Boston, Printed by Bar-
tholomew Green : And sold by Benjamin Eliot,
Samuel Gerrish & Daniel Henchman 1727
Lent hy The Public Library of Boston.
Written by Judge Sewall, a famous Bostonian of early days, and
dedicated "To the Honorable Sir William Ashnrst, Knight (Jov-
ernour, and the Company for the Propagation of the Gospel to the
Indians in New England and places adjacent in America."
Samuel Sewall was born in 1652, graduated at Harvard College in
1671. and was " Keeper of the College Library ' in 167-t. He studied
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divinity and occasionally preached. In 1676 he married the daughter
of John Hull, mint-master and treasurer of the colony. Retiring
from the ministry, he engaged in business pursuits, became a com-
mission merchant and was appointed manager of the press in Boston.
After the death of John Hull, in 1683, he devoted his time to the man-
agement of his father-in-law's large estate. He was elected deputy
to the General Court in 1683 and assistant in 1684. He was appointed
judge of the Superior Court in 1692, and was a member of the Com-
mission appointed for the trial of persons suspected of witchcraft. He
afterwards confessed that he had committed a great error in the course
he had pursued in these trials. He was chief justice of the province
in 1718, and judge of probate from 1715 to 1728. He died in 1730.
His name will always be remembered on account of an interesting
diary which he kept, in which he recorded births, marriages and
deaths, narrated the gossip and scandal of the time, and noted re-
markable events. It presents a faithful picture of the social, theologi-
cal and political conditions of early days. He always retained his
interest in religion, and in 1697 published Fhccnomena Quadam, in
which he sets up the hypothesis that the " Indians are the descendants
of the lost tribes of Israel and that in converting them to Christianity
we should be showing kindness to Israelites unawares." He says, in
the introduction : " 1 have endeavoured to prove that America's name
is to be seen fairly recorded in the Scriptures. That Euphrates . .
ought to be limited to some proper place, for which proper place I
propound the New-World. . . . That the New-English Planters
were the forerunners of the Kings of the East : and as the Morning
Star, giving certain intelligence that the Sun of Righteousness will
quickly rise and shine with illustrious grace and favour upon this
despised hemisphere."
It is a curious mixture of theology, history and biography, and,
whatever may be thought of his theological views, it will always be
valuable to historians and genealogists.
It was so well received that a second edition was published in
1727.
239. Shepard, Thomas. The Parable of the 'J'en Virgins
opened & applied : Iking the Substance of divers
SermonsonMatth. 25. 1, . . . 13. Wherein,
the Difference between the Sincere Christian
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and the most Refined Hypocrite, the Nature &
Characters of Saving and of Common Grace, the
Dangers and Diseases incident to most flourish-
ing Churches of Christians, and other Spiritual
Truths of greatest importance, are clearly dis-
covered, and practically Improved, By Thomas
Shepard Late Worthy and Faithful Pastor of
the Church of Christ at Cambridge in New-
England. Now published from the Authors
own Notes, at the desires of many, for the
common Benefit of the Lords people,
r Jonathan Mitchell Minister at Cam-
bridge
in
New-
By-jTho. Shepard, Son to the Reverend
Author,
now Minister at Charles-Town :
England. Re-printed, and carefully Corrected
in the Year, 1695
Lent by The Public Library of Boston.
A well-known book by Rev. Thomas Shepard, which w'as reprinted
in popular form within recent years. The author was one of the
most prominent of the New England divines, He was born in Eng-
land in 1605, was educated at Emanuel College, Cambridge, and
became a preacher in Earls Coin in Essex, ])ut was silenced tor non-
conformity. He came to New P^ngland in liVSo, and succeeded Rev.
Thomas Hooker as pastor of the First ( hurch in Cambridge, Mass.
He died Aug. 25, 1649, at the early age of forty-four years. His
name is still held in grateful remembrance, and the building in which
the society worships is known as the Shepard Memorial Church.
240. [Bradstreet, Anne.] Several Poems Compiled with
a great variety of Wit and Learning, full of
Delights ; Wherein esi)ecially is contained a
complcat Discourse, and Description of
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Elements
„, _, Constitutions,
The Four \ . . ^ ^ '
Ages of Man,
Seasons of tiie Year.
Together with an exact Epitome of the three
first Monarchyes
(Assyrian.
Persian,
Grecian ,
And beginning of the Romane Common-wealth
to the end of their last King : With diverse
other pleasant & serious Poems, By a Gentle-
woman in New-England. The second Edi-
tion, Corrected by the Author' and enlarged
by an Addition of several other Poems found
among her Papers after her Death Boston,
Printed by John Foster, 1()78
Lent by The Public Lihrarij of Boston.
Anne Bradstreet was the daughter of Gov. Thomas Dudley, and
■was born at Northampton, Eng., in 1612. She married Simon Brad-
street, afterwards (iovernor of Massachusetts, with whom she came to
New England in 1630. The first edition of her poems was published
in London in 1650, entitled The Tenth Muse lat^^hj sprutig up in
America, Or Several roerns, compiled with Oreai Variety of Wit and
Learning, full of Delight. She died in 1672, and in 167r) a more
complete edition of her poems was jmblished in I^oston, which con-
tains what is considered her best poem, entitled (Joiieviplations.
Cotton Mather in his Magnalia refers to her work as follows:
"these poems divers times printed have afl'orded a grateful enter-
tainment unto the ingenious, and a inoiiument for her memory beyond
the stateliest marbles."''
Rev. John Norton slyles her the " peerless gentlewoman, tlie mir-
ror of her age, and glory of her sex." Notwithstanding those ex-
travagant praises, Mrs. Bradstreet's poems tliemselves are witnesses
that she was not devoid of imagination, and was familiar with the
best thou<ihts oi the a-'^e.
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241. Wise, John. The Churches Quarrel Espoused : or
a Reply In Satyre, to certain Proposals made,
in Answer to this Question , What further Steps
are to be taken, that the Councils may have due
Constitution and Efficacy in Supporting, Pre-
serving, and AYell-Ordering the Interest of the
Churches in the Country? By John Wise,
Pastor to a Church in Ipswich. The Second
Edition. Boston, Reprinted : Sold by Nicholas
Boone, at the Sign of the Bible in Cornhill,
1715
Lent by The Public Library of Boston.
In the early part of the eighteenth century it was proposed that
all the ministers form themselves into associations ; that the pastors
i'orming such an association, with a proper number of delegates from
the respective churches, should constitute a standing council for the
determination of all affairs for which a council might be needed ; that
the association direct when the standing council shall meet ; that no
act of such council be reckoned as conclusive and decisive for which
there has not been the concurrence of the major part of the pastors
therein concerned, etc.
Many of the ministers and laymen opposed their " Propositions "
as endangering the " liberties of the churches,'' and in 1713 John
^Vise, pastor of the church in Ipswich, published The Vhurchc,^
Quarrel espoused ; or a Reply in Satyre to Certain Proposals made,
etc., and in 1717, A Vindication of the Government of New England
Churches, etc. The ideas advanced in these publications caused the
failure of the attempt of the proposers. So great was the demand for
these books that several editions were printed, and the}^ are frequently
called lor at the present day.
Prof. Moses Coit Tyler, in his History <f American Literature
speaks of The Church's Quarrel espoused as " a book that by its
learning, logic, sarcasm, humor, invective, its consuming earnest-
ness, its visions of great truths, its flashes of triumphant eloquence,
simply annihilated the scheme it assailed. ... It is, of its kind, a
work of art : it has a beginning, a middle, and end — each part in fit
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proportion, and all connected organically. ... It is a piece of trium-
phant logic, brightened by wit, and ennobled by imagination; a
master specimen of the art of public controversy."
242. Mather, Increase. Angelographia, or A Discourse
Concerning the Nature and Power of the Holy
Angels, and the Great Benefit which the True
Fearers of God Eeceive by their Ministry : De-
livered in several Sermons : To which is added,
A Sermon concerning the Sin and Misery of the
Fallen Angels : Also a Disquisition concerning
Angelical-Apparitions. By Increase Mather,
President of Harvard Colledije, in Cambridgre,
and Preacher of the Gospel at Boston, in Xew-
England. Boston in X. E. Printed by B.
Green & J. Allen, for Samuel Phillips at the
Brick Shop. 1696.
Lent by The Public Library of Boston.
Two books in one volume, by Rev. Increase Mather, at that time
president of Harvard College. In the first book he asserts his beliet
in the existence of angels, both holy and fallen; that they are real
beings ; that the holy angels are to wait upon the Lord and do his
pleasure, and that the church of God is the especial object of their
care and tutelage ; that the fallen angels, who were once without
sin, God has made examples of judgment without mercy.
The second book is A lJiS(]uisition concerning Anyclical Appari-
tions, on the second page of which the author says : " We in New
England have lately seen not only miserable creatures jnnched,
burnt, wounded, tortured by invisible agents, but some ecstutical
persons, who have strongly imagined that they have been attended
with ca3lestial visitants revealing secret and future things to (hem
which if it should appear to be dialiolical imposture or tlie eflect of
an hurt imagination only, or both, it may (if not timely prevented)
be of dangerous consequence to tluiinselves or otliers ; on which
occasion the seasonable question or case of conscience whicli I am
desired to express mj- sentiments ooncerning is lohcUur angelical
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apparitions viay in these days be expected : and if so how they may be
discerned from Satanical Illusions.^'' He answered by the following
conclusions : —
"1. Although it must be granted that in the days of the Gospel,
angelical apparitions are not so frequent as under the Old Testament,
nevertheless some such there have been and still may be.
" II. Some circumstances attending extraordinary apparitions
pretending to be angelical have demonstrated them to be diabolical,
others have rendered them suspicious.
" III. Men ought to be very cautious of admitting or hearkening
unto pretended angelical revelations."
Each of these conclusions is supported by citations of numerous
reported ai^ijaritions.
243. Mather, Increase. An Essay for the Recording of
lUustrious Providences : Wherein an Account
is given of many Remarkable and very Memo-
rable Events, which have hapened this last Age,
Especially in New-England. By Increase
Mather, Teacher of a Church at Boston in Xew-
England. Boston in New-England, Printed by
Samuel Green for Joseph Browning, and are to
be Sold at his Shop at the corner of the Prison-
Lane next the Town-House. 1G84
Lent by The Public Library of Boston.
Rev Increase Mather was one of the most extraordinary men of
his age. lie was educated for the ministry at Harvard College, and,
going to England, obtained literary honors at Dublin University, be-
ing then only nineteen years of age. He was highly distinguished
for his attainments in mathematics, philoso})hy, history, theology and
rabbinical learning. He conversed familiarly in Latin, and had read
the Old Testament in Hebrew and the New in Greek. He was or-
dained pastor of the North Church in Boston, May 27, 1664, and ful-
filled his duties to that church for sixty-two years. He was the
author of ninety-two distinct works.
In his introduction to an English edition of the Essay, Mr. George
Offer says: "Such was the eminent divine, the decided patriot, the
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truthful historian, who to promote the best interests of man, collected,
arranged, and published these Remarkable Providences and Mar-
vellous Escapes by Sea and Land. They faithfully delineate the state
of public opinion two hundred years ago, the most striking feature
being an implicit faith in the power of the invisible world to hold
visible intercourse with man : — not the angels to bless poor erring
mortals, but of demons imparting power to witches and warlocks
to injure, terrify and destroy."
The title-page of this book was set up twice ; for other form
see 449.
244. Prince, Thomas. A Chronological History of New-
England in the Form of Annals : bein<r A sum-
mary and exact Account of the most material
Transactions and Occurences relating to This
Country, in the Order of Time wherein they
happened, from the Discovery by Capt. Gos-
nold in 1602 to the Arrival of Governor Belcher,
in 1730. With an Introduction, Containing A
brief Epitome of the most remarkable Trans-
actions and Events Abroad, from the Creation :
Including the connected Line of Time, the
Succession of Patriachs and Sovereigns of the
most famous Kingdoms & Empires, the gradual
Discoveries of America, and the Progress of the
Reformation to the Discovery of New England.
By Thomas Prince M.A. Boston N. E.
Printed by Kneeland & Green for S. Gcrrish
MDCCXXXVI
Lent by The Public Library of Boston.
Our first American dictionary of dates Samuel G. Drake, the
historian of Boston, refers to Rev. Thomas Prince as " the sun of New
England history who is, to all that went before him, as the sun to the
stars. His New Erujland ChronoUxjy in the Form of Annals is a
model work, which nothing can ever supply the place of." Rev. Mr
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Wisner, in his History of the Old South Church, says : " In history
and chronology especially as relating to this country his labors were
prosecuted with unparalleled industry and fidelity, and have imposed
on posterity a great and lasting obligation. In 1703 while at college
he began a collection of books and public and private papers relating
to the civil and religious history of New England to which he con-
tinued to make valuable additions for more than fifty years. He also
made a large collection of classical and theological works and books
of general literature. All of these he gave at his decease to the
church and congregation of which he had been minister. His in-
dustry was perfectly astonishing. All his studies were prosecuted
with carefu'ness, fidelity and patience. The labor of preparing his
Chronological History was enough for one diligent student during
many years." The North American Review says : " Of the New
England Chronology, so far as it extends, there has been no difference
of opinion. It is distinguished for its accuracy and extreme caution.
It is a work of the greatest utility, and almost necessary to one who
would form an intimate acquaintance with the history of the first
planting of New England."
When Mr. Prince published it he presented a copy to the General
Court, and the following record is spread upon the Journal of the
House : " The House being informed that the Rev. Mr Thomas Prince
was at the door, and desired admittance. Ordered, that Mr. Prince be
admitted into the House, and coming up to the table, he addressed
himself to Mr. Speaker and the House in the following manner,
viz., — Mr. Speaker, I most humbly present to your Honor and this
Honorable House the first volume of my Chronological History of
New England, which at no small Expense and Pains I have composed
and published for the Instruction and Good of my country. And then
he made compliment of one of the books to Mr. Speaker by present-
ing it to him, and another he presented to and for the use of the
Members of the House of Representatives, and laid it on the table,
and then withdrew.''
245. Wood, William. New England's Prospect, being A
true, lively, and experimental Description of
that part of America commonly called Ncw-
Enscland : Discoverinjif The State of that
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Country, both as it stands to our new-come
English Planters : and to the old Xative In-
habitants, and Laying down that which may
both enrich the knowledoe of the Mind-traveling
Reader, or benefit the future Voyager. The
Third Edition. By William "Wood. London,
Printed 1639. Boston, New-Engknd, Re-
printed, By Thomas and John Fleet, in Corn-
hill ; and Green and Russell, in Queen-Street,
1764
Lent by The Public Library of Boston.
The first American edition. It was first publisheil in England in
1634, and has been reprinted, both in England and America, several
times.
William Wood came to Xew England in 1G29, and took up his
residence in Lynn. He remained here four years, during which time
he visited and located every settlement, including those in the INIeiri-
mac valley. lie had been commissioned to report a full answer as
to the capacities and character of the territory lie was to explore, for
the information of the Puritans in England, who were contemplating
a removal to Xew England. Upon his return to England in 1633 he
published his report, entitled Kei'- Knylund".^ Prospect, which con-
tains the location of twenty Xew England settlements and describes
their members and appearances. The last six pages contain a dic-
tionary of Indian words. It is the earliest printed account of Massa-
chusetts, and is embellished with a Majj of the South Part of Ncir
England, as it is plaiited in the Yeare, 1034
246. Mather, Increase. A Relation of the Troubles
which have ha])enc'd in Xcw-Kngland, By reason
of the Indians there. From the Year 1()M. to
the Year 1675. Wherein the Fre(iucMt Con-
spiracyes of the Indians to cutt of the English,
and the wonderful la-oviderico of (iod, in dis-
apointing their devices, is declared. TogetluT
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with an Historical Discourse concerning the
Prevalency of Prayer ; shewing that New Eng-
lands late deliverance from the Rage of the
Heathen is an eminent Answer of Prayer. By
Increase Mather Teacher of a Church in Boston
in New England. Boston, Printed and sold by
John Foster, 1677.
Lent by The Public Library of Boston.
It has been said that Mather wrote this book on account of jealousy
of Hubbard, who wrote his Narrative of the Troubles ivith the In-
dians about the same time, both works being published in the same
year. Mather says himself that he wrote it on account of a letter
which he " received from a worthy person who upon the perusal of
that Brief Historical Account of the war with the Indians published the
last summer, importuned me to write the story of the Pequot War."
Whatever its cause it is a valuable historj', and adds much to the
early history of New England. He quotes a great deal from the
early voyagers and travellers, and many of the books from which he
makes extracts are very difficult to find to-day outside the large libra-
ries. He refers to Hubbard's Narrative, and adds, " Nevertheless
it hath been thought needful to publish this, considering that most of
the things here insisted on, are not so much as once taken notice of in
that Narrative^'*
lAil. Winthrop, John. A Journal Of the Transactions
and Occurrences in the settlement of Massa-
chusetts, and the other New-England Colonies,
from the year 1630 to 1644 : Written by John
Winthrop Esq. First Governor of Massachu-
setts : And now first published from a correct
copy of the original Manuscript. Hartford :
Printed By Elisha Babcock. MDCCXC.
Lent by The Public Library of Boston.
As the writer of this Journal was the Governor of the colony of
the Massachusetts Bay for a large portion of the time from the com-
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mencement until 1649, and was an actor in as well as an eye-witness
of many of the incidents and events which he records, we are, as it
were, admitted behind the scenes, and are able to observe the springs
of action which brought about certain results in the early days of the
colony. It is a storehouse of information, and may well be called the
cornerstone of New England history. It describes not only the early
life but also the character and methods of our Puritan ancestors, and
has no superior, if, indeed, it has an equal. After the death of the
writer it was allowed to remain in manuscript, although consulted by
all the early writers, until 1790, when it was published under the
supervision of Noah Webster,
248. [Mather, Cotton.] Bonifacius. An Essay Upon
the Good, that is to be Devised and Designed
by those Who Desire to Answer the Great End
of Life, and to Do Good While they Live. A
Book Offered, First, in General, unto all Chris-
tians, in a Personal Capacity, or in a Relative.
Then more Particularly, Unto Magistrates,
unto Ministers, unto Physicians, unto Law-
yers, unto Scholemasters, unto Wealthy Gen-
tlemen, unto several Sorts of Officers, unto
Churches, and unto all Societies of a Religious
Character and Intention. With Humble Pro-
posals, of Unexceptionable Methods, to Do
Good in the World. Boston in N. England :
Printed by B. Green for Samuel Gerrish at
his Shop in Corn Hill 1710.
Lent by The Public Library of Boston.
One of Cotton Mather's best books, to the remarkable value of
which Benjamin Franklin testifies as follows : " When I was a boy I
met with a book entitled 'Essays to do (iood.' It had l)eon so litthj
regarded by its former possessor that several leaves were torn out,
but the remainder gave me such a turn of thinking us to have an in-
fluence on my conduct through life."
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The object of the book is to counteract the propensity to indolence
by suggesting motives to action, reasons for exertion and methods of
usefulness. The book was very popular, and passed through many
editions.
24:9. Mayhew, Experience. Indian Converts : or, some
Account of the Lives and Dying Speeches of a
considerable Number of the Christianized In-
dians of Martha's Vineyard, in New-England.
Viz. I. Of Godly Ministers. 11. Of other
Good Men. III. Of Religious Women. IV.
Of Pious young Persons . By Experience May-
hew. M.A. Preacher of the Gospel to the Indians
of that Island. To which is added. Some
Account of those English ^Ministers who have
successively presided over the Indian "Work in
that and the adjacent Islands by Mr. Prince.
London, Printed for Samuel Gerrish, Book-
seller in Boston in New-England ; and sold by
J. Osborn and T. Longman in Paternoster-
Row, MDCCXXVII.
Lent hy The Public Library of Boston.
An account of the lives of thirty Indian ministers and eighty In-
dian men, women and children who had been converted to the Chris-
tian religion, and who were worthy of being remembered on account
of their pure lives. Rev. Thomas Prince has added at the end, under
a separate title, Some Account of those English Ministers who have
successively iiresidtd over the Indian Work in that and Adjacent
Islands
Rev. Experience Mayhew, born in 1673, died in 1758, was minis-
ter at Martha's Vineyard, and, like Rev. John Eliot, devoted much
time to civilizing and Christianizing the Indians. He published in
1709 The Massachusetts Psalter; or Psalms of Fiarid with the Gospel
according to John, in columns of Indian and English, which, next
to Eliot's Indian Bible, is considered tlie most important monument
of the Massachuset lanjjuai'e.
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250. [Ward, Nathaniel.] Guard, Theodore de la. The
Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America. Will-
ing to help jVIend his Native Country, lament-
ably tattered, both in upper-Leather and sole,
with all the honest stitches he can take. And
as willing never to be paid for his work by
Old English wonted pay. It is his Trade to
patch all the year long, gratis. Therefore I
Pray Gentleman keep your Purses. By Theo-
dore de la Guard. The Fifth Edition, with
some Amendments. London : Printed by J.
D. & R. T. Reprinted at Boston in N. Eng-
land, for Daniel Henchman, at his Shop in
King Street, 1713.
Lent by The Public Library of Boston.
Nathaniel Ward, the author of the Simple Cobler was one of
the independent writers of the early days in Massachusetts, whose
works abound with wit, quaintness and sagacity. Indeed, Rev.
Cotton Mather says " his wit made him known to more Englands
than one." He was bom at Haverhill, Eng., in 1570. He was edu-
cated at Emanuel College, Cambridge, taking his degree of A.B. in
1600, and that of A.M. in 1603. He was for some time a barrister,
but about 1618 entered the ministry and became rector at Stanton, in
England. Silenced for non-conformity in 1634, he came to New
England. Having been invited to become the minister at Agawam,
he accepted, and was installed in December of that year. In 1636 he
resigned, on account of ill health. His legal knowledge was now of
greac benefit to him, as at the session of the General Court of Massa-
chusetts which began in March, 1638, he was appointed on a com-
mission to prepare a code of laws for the Massachusetts colony.
In 1645 Mr. Ward commenced to write the Simple Cobler, which
was completed in the autumn of 1645 and sent to p:ngland for
publication, where it appeared in January, 1647. The cause which
had forced Ward to leave England had been removed, and he re-
turned to the mother country, arriving shortly after the publication
of his book. Ward was well accjuainted with many of the leaders of
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Parliament, and his book, in the main, was on their side. "In it
assuming the character of a cobbler who had exiled himself to the
new world, and who in safety, but not without strong interest, now
looked upon the political and religious storms which were sweeping
over his native country, he utters quaint reflections and pungent
satire upon the times." lie was, however, opposed to the extremists
in Parliament, who demanded the legal recognition of toleration in
religion and the establishment of a republic.
His book was well received, and passed through four editions in
the first year. The first American edition is presumed to be the
one printed in Boston in 1713. Mr. Ward was one of our earliest
American authors, and his services in connection with our first
code of laws have made his name familiar to readers of New Eng-
land history.
320. [Breeches Bible.] Title Page missing. "JohnAlden
his booke " on fly leaf of The New Testa-ment
of our Lord Jesus Christ, Translated out of the
Greeke by Theod. Beza : With briefe Summaries
and expositions upon the hard places by the said
Authour, Joac. Camer. and P. Loseler, Villerius.
Englished by L. Tomson. Together with An-
notations of Fr. Sunius upon the Revelation of
S. John. Imprinted at London by the Deputies
of Christopher Barker, Printer to the Queenes
most Excellent Magistie. 1599
Lent by Mr. Charles P. Greenougli.
321. [Prince, Thomas.] The Psalms, Hymns, & Spirit-
ual Songs, of the Old and New Testament,
Faithfully translated into English Metre. Being
the New-England Psalm-Book Revised and Im-
proved ; By an Endeavour after a yet nearer
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Approach to the inspired Original, as well as
to the Rules of Poetry. With an Addition of
Fifty other Hymns on the most important Sub-
jects of Christianity ; with their Titles, placed
in Order, from The Fall of the Angels
and Men, to Heaven after the General
Judfjement.
Boston : N. E. Printed, and Sold by D. Henchman,
in Cornhill and S. Kneeland in Queenstreet.
1758.
Lent by Mr. George E. Littlefield.
This revision of the New England version ol' the " Psalms " was
undertaken by Rev. Thomas Prince, at the request of a committee of
the Old South Society, from a fear, as he says in the preface, " that
the New-England Version would be wholly laid aside in our Churches
on account of the flatnesses in diverse places," and should rather be
mended and preserved. In the preface he also describes the method
pursued and the vast amount of literary labor performed in making
this revision. It was begun April 29, 1755, and " thro multitudes of
avocations, interruptions and infirmities" finished March 20, 1757.
At a meeting of the church and congregation Oct. 9, 1758, it was
accepted, to be used in public worship on and after the last Sabbath
in that month. It was also voted " that these Psalms be sung without
reading line by line as has been usual ; except on evening lectures
and extraordinary occasions, when the assembly can't be generally
furnished with books." This revision was used in public worship
by the Old South Society until October, 1786, when Watts was sub-
stituted. Mr. Prince added to the original version fifty hymns, " which
are not Versions of the Scriptures but Pious Songs derived from them
by Dr. Watts and others." There are also bound in at the end sixteen
pages of music, handsomely engraved on copper.
322. [Harris, Benjamin.] The New-England Primer
Improved For the more easy attaining the
true reading of Endish To Which U Added
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The Assembly of Divines Catechism. Bos-
ton : Printed and Sold by the Book-Sellers.
MDCCLXXXIV.
Lent by Mr. George E. Littlefield.
From rerj early times the church recognized the duty of teaching
children the principles of religion. The school was the handmaid of
the church, and in the church schools was obtained all the education
the children received. The first Protestant primer was published by
Melanchthon in 1519. After Henry VIII. renounced his allegiance to
the Pope he caused to be printed, in 1545, Tlie Primer, in IJngli^h
and Latin set forth by the Kynges Majestie and his Clergie to be
taught learned and read : and None Other to be -used throiighout All
his Dominions. The Puritans, however, would not accept it, but
issued one of their own, entitled TJie ABC both vi Latyn and in
Englyshe. The New England colonists used a Puritan primer,
which was known as a " common primer.'" As no copy has come
down to us, it is not known how it was made up, but it is presumed
to have been a " common primer" which Rev. John Eliot translated
into the Indian language. In 1668 Marmaduke Johnson of Cam-
bridge printed a primer which is presumed to have been a copy of
the " common primer."
It is pretty well established that the Ncu; England Primer was
composed by Benjamin Harris, a Boston bookseller, and first pub-
lished in 1690. The date of the earliest known copy is 1725. The
primer was the reading book of the elementary schools. The Ne^n
England Vrimcr drove out all the other primers, and remained in
general use until well into the nineteenth century, and its sales have
been numbered by millions. From its extensive use in teaching the
catechism it has been called " The Little Bible of New J^noflaud."
323. [Prince, Thomas.] A Sermon Delivered By
Thomas Prince, M.A. On Wednesday,
October 1. 1718. at his Ordination to the
Pastoral Charge Of the South Church in
Boston, N. E. In Conjunction with the Rever-
end Mr. Joseph Sewall Together with The
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Charge, By the Reverend Increase Mather,
D.D. And a Copy of what was said at giving
the Right Hand of Fellowship : By the Rev-
erend Cotton Mather, D.D. To which is added
A Discourse Of the Validity of Ordination by
the Hands of Pres])yters, Previous to Mr.
8e wall's on September 16. 1713. By the Late
Reverend and Learned IVIr. Ebenezer Pem-
berton, Pastor of the same Chm-ch. Boston :
Printed by J. Franklin for S. Gerrish, and Sold
at his Shop near the Old Meeting House. 1718.
Lent hy Mr. George E. Littlefield.
Although our ancestors disliked many of the forms and ceremonies
of the Church of England, yet when they came to form their churches
in New England they experienced great difficulty in deciding what
should be the forms and ceremonies to be used. How the ordinations
should be conducted, and what the forms should be, proved to be a
stumbling block, and opened up a large field for debate, and became
a question for the synods. In the early days holidays were few, and
when an ordination was to be held that day was a holiday for all in
the immediate neighborhood. Our early town records furnish some
curious facts concerning the observation of those days. A large \mTt
of our early literature is made up of accounts of the exercises which
took place at the various ordinations. I'he ordination of Rev. Thomas
Prince is especially interesting IMr. Prince had recently returned
from Euro])e, and on Sept 5, 1717, had i)rcached the Thanksgiving
sermon at Boston, " in the hearing of a multitudinous auditoiy, many
belonging to the adjacent towns being present." Several chun^lies
were trying to secure him as pastor, but he accepted the call from the
South Church of Boston, and was ordained Oct. 1, 1718, in conjunction
with Rev. Joseph Sewall. The charge was delivered by Rev. Increase
Mather, and the right hand of fellowship by Rev. Cotton Mather, the
two most prominent divines in New England.
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324. Morton, Charles. The Spirit of Man : or, Some
Meditations (by way of Essay) on the Sense
of that Scripture. Thes. 5. 23. And the very
God of Peace Sanctifie you wholly, and I pray
God, your whole Spirit, and Soul, and Body,
be Preserved Blameless unto the Coming of
our Lord Jesus Christ. By Charles Morton,
Minister of the Gospel at Charlestown in New-
England. Boston. Printed by B. Harris, for
Duncan Campbell, at the Dock-Head, over
against the Conduit, 1693.
Lent by Mr. George E. Littlefield.
Charles Morton was born at Pendary, in Cornwall, about 1626.
He was educated at Oxford, took holy orders and began his ministry
at Blisland, in Cornwall. Having embraced the cause of the Puri-
tans, he was ejected by the Act of Uniformity of 1662, He then
established an academy for the instruction of youth at Newington
Green, near London, which acquired great celebrity. Here he re-
mained twenty years. Having been invited to become the pastor of
the church at Charlestown he removed to Xew England, and was
installed Xov. 5, 1686. His reputation for excellence in teaching was
so great that many desired him to be president of Harvard College.
The following sketch of his character, given by John Dunton in his
Life and Errors, cannot be improved : " Upon my coming to Boston
I heard that the Rev. Mr. Morton (so much celebrated in England for
his piety and learning) was just arrived from England. Mr. Morton
did me the honour to declare he was very g'ad to see me. . . . The
news of his arrival was received here with extraordinary joy ]:>y the
people in general, and they had reason for it : for besides his being a
iisefull man in fitting young men for the ministry he always gave a
mighty character of New England, which occasioned many to Hy to
it from the persecution which was then raging in London. . . . His
conversation showed him a gentleman. He Avas the very soul of
philosophy. . . . He was the repository of all arts and sciences and
of the graces too. His discourses were not stale, or studied, but
always new and occasional ; for, whatever su'uject was at any time
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started, he had still some pleasant and pat story for it. His sermons
were high, but not soaring ; practical, but not low. His memory was
as vast as his knowledge yet (so great was his humility) he knew it
the least of any man. He was as far from pride as ignorance ; and
if we may judge of a man's religion by his charity, he was a sincere
christian. Mr. Morton being thus accomplished . . . must be the
fittest to bring up young men to the Ministry, of any iu England. In
a word Mr. Charles Morton (late of Newington Green) was that pious
and learned man, by whose instructions my Reverend and worthy
uncle Mr. Obadiah Marriat was so well qualified for the work of
the Ministry. To this I might add that Mr. John Shower and other
eminent preachers owe that fame they have in the world to his great
skill in their education.''
325. [Mather, Cotton.] The Accomplished Singer.
Instruction.s How the Pietv of Sino^insr with a
True Devotion, may be ol)tained and expressed ;
the Glorious God after an uncommon manner
Glorified in it, and His People Edified Intended
for the Assistance of all that would Sing Psalms
with Grace in their Hearts : But more particu-
larly to accompany the Lauda1)le Endevours of
those who are Learning to Sing by Kule, and
seeking to preserve a Kegular Singing in the
Assemblies of the Faithful Boston : Printed
by B. Green, for S. Gerrish, at his Shop in
Cornhill 1721.
Lent by Mr. George E. Liltlefield.
The order of service in the New Eiiirland churrhes. copied from
the primitive churches, was, lir.st, ihc longer prayer; second, siiigiiig
a psalm : third, the sermon : i'ourtli, th<! shorter pruycr; and filth, tiie
singing of another ])salm. hi some churches tlic assembly, being
furnished with psalm books, sung witiioiit the stop of reading between
every line: but ordinarily the psalm was read, line; alter line, by
whomever the pastor ai)])()intcd, and the peoi)le ''generally sung in
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such grave tunes as are most usual in the churches of our nation "
The Massachusetts Bay churches did not admit into their public ser-
vices any other than the Fsabtift, Hymns aiid Spiritual Songs of the Old
and New Testament faithfully translated into Engiv<h Metre Writing
in 1726, Cotton Mather says : '• Their psalmody has been commended
by strangers as not worse than what is in many other parts of the
world, but rather as being usually melodious and agreeable. How-
ever of later times they have considerably reformed and refined it,
and more than a score of tunes are heard regularly sung in their
assemblies "
In 1699 the Brattle Street Society voted to dispense with the
custom of reading and singing the psalms line by line alternately.
Singing by note was first practiced in Boston by this society, and the
first singing society was established by its members between 1717 and
1724 Singing by note occasioned quite a controversy, some favoring
and others opposing, and many years passed before the question was
settled. In 1721 Rev. John Tufts of Newbury wrote and published
what is believed to be the first music book published in this country.
In the same year Rev. Thomas Walter of Roxbury brought out The
Grounds and Bules of Music explained, containing fifteen pages of
engraved music, claimed to be the first music printed with bass in
America. Rev. Thomas Symmes of Bradford preached a sermon in
1721, printed in 1722, which he says, in the preface, " was partly oc-
casioned by a most unhappy and unreasonable controversy about
Singing by Note."
Also, Rev. Cotton Mather brought out in 1721 The Accomplished
Singer, intended, as he says, " more particularly to accompany the
Laudable Endeavours of those who are Learning to Sing by Rule."
326. Mather, Cotton. The Triuaiph.s of the Reformed
Religion in America. The Life of the Re-
nowned John Eliot ; A Person justly Famous in
the Church of God, Not only as an Eminent
Christian, and an Excellent Minister, among
the English, But also, As a Memorable Evan-
gelist among the Indians, of New-England ;
With some Account concerning the late, and
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strange Success of the Gospel, in those parts
of the World, which for many Ages have lain
Buried in Pagan Ignorance. Written by Cot-
ton Mather. Boston, Printed by Benjamin
Harris, and John xA.llen, for Joseph Brunning
at the corner of the Prison-Lane. IfiiH
Lent hy Mr. George E. Littlefield.
Cotton Mather presents us with the lile of that remarkable man,
Rev. John Eliot, who came to New England in 1631, and, having
been appointed teacher of the church at Roxbury, added to his labors
by endeavoring to Christianize the Indians. Mather tells us how Eliot
experienced difficulties that he had not anticipated, and how he over-
came those difficulties. How he discovered that before the Indians
would be able to understand the truths of Christianity they must first
be civilized ; they must be induced to give up their nomadic life ;
they must be taught to read and write ; and that, in order to present
to them the gospel truths in a convincing manner, he must preach
and teach in their language. How be himself became a pupil, and
by what means he became proficient in that language. How he
taught several of the young Indians to be preachers and teachers.
How he translated into the Indian language several theological
treatises and the English Bible ; and finally, how, after overcoming
seemingly insurmountable difficulties, he succeeded in gathering
many Indian families into a town, showed them how to support
themselves by the arts of civilization, taught them how to build
houses and a church, and, having induced them to adopt a code of
laws similar to the English code, moulded them into a Christian
communiiy.
Cotton Mather painted a time and interesting picture, inasmuch as
he had the benefit of association with many persons who were in-
terested with Eliot in his humanitarian eff'orts.
327. Shepard, Thomas. [Catechism.] The First Prin-
ciples of the Oracles of (Jod Collected by
Thomas Shepard, Formerly of Kmanucl College
in Cambridge in England : afterwards Minis-
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ter of Cambridge in New-England. Boston :
Printed and Sold by Kogers and Fowle in
Queen-street 1747.
Lent by Mr. George E. Littlefield.
In June, 1641, at a meeting of the General Court of Massachusetts,
it is '* desired that the elders would make a catechism for the instruc-
tion of youth in the grounds of religion." That this desire of the
General Court was acted upon is shown by a statement of Rev. In-
crease Mather, in the j^reface of a book published in 1679, which
reads: "These last ages have abounded in labours of this kind: one
speaketh of no less than five hundred Catechisms extant : which of
these is most eligible, I shall leave others to determine. I suppose
there is no particular Catechism, of which it ma}' be said, it is the
best for every family, or for every congregation."
Kev. Thomas Shepard, pastor of the church at Cambridge, Mass.,
from 1636 to 1649 prepared a catechism entitled The First Principles
of the Oracles of Ood. It was first published in London in 1648.
Ai)parently the first American edition was published in Boston in
1747, a copy of which is exhibited.
328. Hill, Thomas. The Young Secretary's Guide : or
A speedy help to Learning. In Two Parts.
Part I. Containing the most curious Art of In-
diting familiar Letters, relating to Business in
Merchandise, Trade, Correspondence, Famil-
iarity, Friendship, and on all occasions : also
Instructions for Directing, Superscribing and
Subscribing of Letters with due Respect to the
Titles of Persons of Quality and others : Rules
for Pointing and Capitalling in Writing, &c.
Likewise a short English Dictionary, Explain-
ing hard Words. Part II. Containing the
nature of Writings Obligatory, &c. With Ex-
amples of Bonds, Bills, Letters of Attorneys
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Deeds of Sale, of Mortgage, Releases, Ac-
quittances, WaiTant of Attorney, Deeds of
Gift, Assignments, Counter Security, Bills of
Sale, Letters of License, Apprentices Indent-
ures, Bills of Exchange, & many other Writ-
ings made by Scriveners, &c., With a Table of
Interest Made suitable to the People of New-
England. The Sixth Edition. With large and
useful Additions. By Thomas Hill, Gent.
Boston Reprinted for Nicholas Boone at the
Bible in Cornhill, 1727.
Lent hy Mr. George E. Littlefield.
An American reprint of a little English compendium which was
used not only in the schools, but was also very much in demand by
young men and women who had not received a school education, or
whose school days had been of short duration. Faithfully studied it
would qualify a young person for business without the help of a
master. The seventh English edition was published in 1696, and the
twenty-seventh in 1764. It is supposed to have been introduced to
America by John Allen, the well-known Hoston j^rinter, and the
earliest American edition known to be extant, the third, bears the
imprint " Boston in New England, Printed by B Green & J Allen
for S. Phillips at the Brick-Shop. 1703." Pages 49 to 56 inclusive
contain An English Dictionary ,vi\i\c\x, so far as known, is the earliest
dictionary published in New England. The twenty-fourth Ameri-
can edition was printed in Boston in 1750 Similar books are very
much in demand at the present day, and are known as a (hravicrcial
Letter-Writer.
329. Strong, Nathaniel. England's Perfect School-Master,
or Directions for exact Spelling, Reading, and
Writing. Shewing how to Spell or read any
Chapter in the Bible by four and twenty Words
only. With Examples of most Words, from
one to six Sylables, both in whole Words, and
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also divided : With Rules how to Spell them.
Also how to Spell all such Words which are
alike in Sound, yet diflfer in their Sense and
Spelling. Together with the true meaning and
use of all Stops & Points to be observed by all
that would Read and Write well. With a
Table of Orthography, shewing how to \\Tite
true English As also Variety of Pieces both of
English and Latin Verse, on the most remark-
able Passages mentioned in Scripturre, and very
useful for Writing-Schools . Lastly, Directions
for Writing Letters, Acquittances, Bills of
Exchange, Bills of Parcels, Bills of Debts,
Bonds, &'c. How to state Accompts aright..
&c. The Thirteenth Edition, much Enlarged.
By Nathaniel Strong, School-]\laster in London :
At the Hand & Pen on Great-Tower-Hill, in
Red-Cow Alley. Boston in N. E. Reprinted
for N. Buttolph, B. Eliot, and D. Henchman
and Sold at their Shops 1720.
Lent hy Mr. Geonje E. Littlefield.
As early as 1645, and perhaps a year or two earlier, a speller was
printed at Cambridge, Mass. No copy of it has come down to us,
but probably it was a reprint of some English speller of the time,
and may have been an exact copy of Coote's E^iglUh Schoolmaster,
a very popular speller of the seventeenth century,, which was first
published in 1590. in the latter part of the seventeenth century Mr,
Strong's spellers were very popular, being published in London as
early as 1076. They were imported into New England and sold here,
as in the inventor}- of the stock of Michael Perry, a Boston book-
seller, taken in 1700, is listed "12 Strongs Spelling books." The
first spelling book by an American author was published in 1783 in
Hartford, Conn., and its author was Noah Webster.
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330. [Lewis, Ezekiel?] A short Introduction to the
Latin Tongue : For the use of the Lower
Forms in the Latin School ; Being the Acci-
dence, abridged and compiled in that most easy
and accurate method, wherein the famous Mr.
Ezekiel Cheever taught, and which he found the
most advantageous, by seventy years experi-
ence. To which is added, A Catalogue of
Irregular Nouns and Verbs, Disposed Alpha-
betically. The Eighteenth Edition. Printed
by John Mycall, for E. Battelle, and sold by
them at their shops in Boston and Newbury-
port. MDCCLXXXV.
Lent by Mr. George E. Littlefield.
Ezekiel Cheever came to Boston from London in 1637, but soon re-
moved to New Haven, Conn., where he taught school twelve years.
In 1650 he went to Ipswich, Mass., where he taught in the grammar
school eleven years. He again removed in 1061 to Charlestown,
Mass., where he was master of the grammar school for nine years.
Having been chosen master of the Latin School in Boston, he removed
to that town in 1670. and officiated as master until his death, Aug. 21,
1708, aged ninety-three.
Although this little treatise is familiarly known as Cheever's
" Latin Accidence" yet it is very doubtful if he was its composer.
The first edition was published in 1709, the year after his death, but
the name of the author did not appear on the title-page. The title-
page of the edition published in 1724 has the following addition, " The
Third Edition revised and corrected by the Author." This would
seem to show that Ezekiel Cheever was not the author. The book
was written for the use of the lower forms of the Hoston Latin School,
and the indications point very decidedly towards Ezekiel Lewis, the
grandson of Ezekiel Cheever, who was assistant to his grandfather at
the time of the latters death. President (iuiucy spoke very highly oi"
this book : " A work which was used for more than a century in the
schools of New England, as the first eleraentaTy ))Ook for learning the
Latin language "
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334. Morton, Thomas. New English Canaan or New
Canaan. Containing an Abstract of New
England, Composed in three Bookes. The first
Booke setting forth the originall of the Natives,
their Manners and Custoraes, together with
their tractable Nature and Love towards the
English. The second Booke setting forth the
natm^ll Indowments of the Country, and what
staple Commodities it yealdeth. The third
Booke setting forth, what people are planted
there, their prosperity, what remarkable acci-
dents have happened since the first planting of
it, together with their Tenents and practice
of their Church. Written by Thomas Morton
of Cliffords Inne gent, upon tenne years knowl-
edge and experiment of the Country. Printed
at Amsterdam, By Jacob Frederick Stam In
the Yeare 1637.
Lent by Mr. Frederick L. Gay.
Thomas Morton of CliflFord's Inn, gentleman, came to Plymouth in
June, 1622, and after inspecting the country returned to England in
September of the same year. He returned in 1625 and took up his
residence at Mare-Mount, now Quincy.
He was of a jovial and roistering disposition, and his actions were
displeasing to his Plymouth neighbors, especially in his erection of a
Maypole, and dancing around it with the Indians. Also, he supplied
the Indians with arms, in order that they might hunt for him. This
had been prohibited, as it was considered prejudicial to the safety
of the colonists. Accordingly he was arrested, tried, found guilty,
and sent a prisoner to England in 1628. He returned in August,
1629, as secretary to AUei-ton, but soon found his way back to Mare-
Mount. He was again arrested and sent as a prisoner to England in
1630. He now wrote New J'Jnglish Canaan, having, as he says in
his book, had " ten years knowledge and experiment of the country."
It is said to have been first published in 1632. It is divided into three
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books, the first treating of the Indians, the second of the natural
history of the country, the third of the people there and his own suffer-
ings. The third part is written in allegorical style, the principal
characters appearing under fictitious names. Naturally the book is
not complimentary to the New England people. Morton returned
in 1643, was again arrested, tried for the libels his book was said to
have contained, found guilty, and fined one hundred pounds. He
was allowed to go to Agamenticus, where he died two years later.
335. Morton, Nathaniel. New-Englands Memoriall :
or, A brief Relation of the most Memorable and
Remarkable Passages of the Providence of God,
manifested to the Planters of New-England in
America ; With special Reference to the first
Colony thereof, Called New-Plimouth. As
also a Nomination of divers of the most Emi-
nent Instruments deceased, both of Church and
Common-wealth, improved in the first begin-
ning and after-progress of sundry of the respec-
tive Jurisdictions in those Parts ; in referance
unto sundry Exemplary Passages of their Lives
and the time of their Death. Published for the
Use and Benefit of the present and future Gen-
erations, By Nathaniel Morton, Secretary to
the Court of Jurisdiction of New-Plimouth.
Cambridge : Printed by S. G. & M. J. for John
Usher of Boston IGGi).
Lent by Mr. Frederick L. Gay.
The earliest printed attempt at a formal hi.story of the old colony.
It was written by Nathaniel Morton, son of George Morton, who had
married, in England, a sister of (iovernor Bradford, and who came to
Plymouth with his family in July, 102;}, in the ship •' Ann" In 1(M5
he was chosen secretary of the colony court, and continued in the
office till his death, June 28, 1085, aged seventy-two. Morton had
access to the manuscript journal of his uncle, (Jovernor Bradford,
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from which he made liberal extracts in writing his Memoriall. He
also wrote a history of the church at Plymouth, which, unfortunately,
was destroyed by fire in Boston in 1676, having been lent to Rev.
Increase Mather, whose church and dwelling-house were destroyed by
the same fire.
336. Mather, Cotton. The Wonders of the Invisible
World : Being an Account of the Tryalls of
Several Witches, Lately Executed in New-
England : And of several remarkable Curiosities
therein Occuring, Together with, I Obser-
vations upon the Nature, the Number, and the
Operations of the Devils. II A short Narrative
of a late outrage committed by a knot of Witches
in Swede-land, very much resembling, and so
far explaining, that under which New-England
has laboured. Ill Some Counccls directing a
due Improvement of the Terrible things lately
done by the unusual and amazing Range of
Evil-Spiri(ts) in New-England. IV A brief
Discourse upon those Temptations w'hich are
the more ordinary Devices of Satan. By Cot-
ton Mather. Published by the Special Com-
mand of his Excellency the Govcrnour of the
Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-
England. Printed first, at Bostun in New-
England : and Reprinted at London, for John
Dunton, at the Raven in the Poultry. 1693.
Lent by Mr. Frederick L. Gay.
Kev. Cotton Mather, whether regarded as a scholar or a writer,
was the representative man of New England during the latter part
of tlie seventeenth and the early part of the eighteenth century. He
published nearly four hundred books, and wielded a powerful inflii-
ence in the community. The course pursiunl b}- him in the Salem
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witchcraft delusion has subjected him to severe criticism. He was a
believer in miraculous signs, omens, haunted places and witchcraft,
and it should be said of him that he had published books on these
subjects several years before the unfortunate outbreak at Salem. His
books, which were widely distributed, and the stories they contained,
which were believed by the greater portion of the public, undoubtedly
contributed largely to the terrible deeds in which that delusion cul-
minated. When, in 1692, twenty persons had been put to death and
many others had been imprisoned, the conservative portion of the
people began to doubt a doctrine which had to be supported by such
means, and called a halt. Mather, however, continued in his delusion,
and in 1693 published the Wonders of the Invisible World. It was
approved by the president of Harvard College and many other influ-
ential persons. The opposition, however, soon gained the day, the
executions ceased and the prisoners were released.
337. Wiggles worth, Michael. The Day of Doom : or,
A Poetical Description of The Great and Last
Judgement, with A Short Discourse about
Eternity. By Michael Wigglesworth, Teacher
of the Church at Maldon in N. E. The Fifth
Edition enlarged with Scripture and Marginal
Notes. Boston : Printed by B, Green, and J.
Allen, for Benjamin Eliot, at his Shop under
the West End of the Town-House. 1701
Lent hy Mr. Frederick L. Gay.
The author, Michael Wigglesworth, was l)orn in P^ngland in 1631 ;
was graduated at Harvard College in 1651, and died in 1705, He
was the earliest poet among the graduates of Harvard. There were
earlier graduates who had written elegies and short poems on special
occasion.s, but this was the first attempt at a long poem which was
considered of any literary im])ortaii(;e. It is a verification of the
scriptural account of the Last Judgment, and wa.s tlie most popular
and the most widely circulated poetical volume oi' the .seventeenth
century in America. The lir.st edition, pul)lished in 1662, consisted
of eighteen hundred coi)ies, all of which wen; sold in one year. ( )nly
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one imperfect copy is known to be in existence. The same is true ot
the second edition, published in 1666. Of the third edition, pub-
lished about 1673, and the fourth edition, published about 1683, no
copies are known. The Boston edition of 1701, a copy of which is
exhibited, is the earliest American edition represented by a perfect
copy. The book was reprinted several times in England.
Stanzas 180 and 181, which relate to the doom of those who died
in infancy, are frequently quoted. They are as follows : —
" You sinners are, and such a share as sinners may expect,
Such you shall haye ; for 1 do save none but my own Elect.
Yet to compare your sin with theirs who lived a longer time,
I do confess yours is much less, though every sin's a crime.
A crime it is, therefore in bliss you may not hope to dwell ;
But unto you I shall allow the easiest room in Hell.
The glorious King thus answering, they cease, and plead no longer ;
Their Consciences must needs confess his Reasons are the stronger."
338. [Mather, Cotton.] Parentator. Memoirs of Remark-
ables in the Life and the Death of the Ever-
Memorable Dr. Increase Mather. Who Expired,
August 23, 1723. Boston: Printed by B.
Green, for Nathaniel Belknap, at the Corner
of Scarlets- Wharff. 1724.
Lent by Mr. Frederick L. Gay.
A loving memorial and a monument of filial affection. A tribute
to the virtues of his illustrious father, who was looked upon as a
leader by the whole community, and whose opinions were consulted
in the most important transactions and controversies.
For four successive generations the Mather family was prominent
in the civil and religious affairs of the country. The names of
Richard, Increase, Cotton and Samuel Mather, who did so much to de-
velop the infant colony, will ever be held in grateful remembrance
by the descendants of the New England fathers. Henry Ware, Jr.,
says : " The name of Increase Mather still lives ; and when hundreds
of generations shall have sunk to irrecoverable oblivion he shall still
be hailed as one of the worthies of New England."
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339. Sjmmes, Thomas. LovewellLamented.or, aSermon
Occasion'd by the Fall of the Brave Capt. John
Lovewell And Several of his Valiant Company,
In the late Heroic Action at PiirErwacket. Pro-
nounc'd at Bradford, May 16, 1725 B}-^ Thoma.s
Symmes, V.D.M. Boston in New-England :
Printed by B. Green Junr. for S. Gerrish, near
the Brick Meeting House in Cornhill. 1725.
Lent by Mr. Frederick L. Gay.
A sermoa preached on the 16th of May, 1725, by the Rev Thomas
Symmes of Bradford, Mass., a week after the death of the brave
Lovewell, to which is prefixed an historical memoir which gives us
the best account of the battle which has been transmitted to us. The
name of Lovewell became famous, and the story of his exploits was
rehearsed everywhere. A mournful ballad, written shortly after the
battle, recounting the chief incidents of the event, was published, and
became a very popular song in the colonies.
Symmes gives the well-known story of the killing of the Indian
chief Paugus by John Chamberlain, now believed to be apocryphal.
Rev. Elias Nason, in the History of Dunstable, says : " Capt. Love-
well was brave, adventurous, and persistent. He died with his gun
loaded and pointed towards the foe. His blood was not spilled in
vain. The action atPequaket closed the war and insured tranquility.
A treaty of peace was soon made with the different tribes and the
Pequakets, under their leader Adeawanda, removed to Canada ''
340. Mather, Cotton. Magnalia Christ! Americana : or
the Ecclesiastical History of IS' ew- England,
from Its First Planting in the Year 1620. unto
the Year of our Lord, 169iS. In Seven Books.
I. Antiquities: In Seven Chapters. With an
Appendix. II. C'ontaining the Lives (if the
Governours, and the Names of the Magistrates
of New-Knglaiid : In Thirteen Cha{)ters. With
an Ap[)cndi.\. HI. The Lives of Si.xty iMinious
Divines, by whose Ministry the Churches of
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New-England have been Planted and Con-
tinued. IV. An Account of the University
of Cambridge in New-England ; in Two Parts.
The First contains the Laws, the Benefactors,
and Vicissitudes of Harvard College ; with Re-
marks upon it. The Second Part contains the
Lives of some Eminent Persons Educated in it.
V. Acts and Monuments of the Faith and Order
in the Churches of New-England, passed in their
Synods; with Historical Remarks upon those
Venerable Assemblies ; and a great Variety of
Church-Cases occurring, and resolved by the
S3^nods of those Churches : In Four Parts.
VI. A Faithful Record of many Illustrious,
Wonderful Providences, both of Mercies and
Judgements, on divers Persons in New-Eng-
land. In Eight Chapters. VII. The Wars
of the Lord. Being an History of the Mani-
fold Afflictions and Disturbances of the Churches
in New-England, from their Various Adversaries,
and the Wonderful Methods and Mercies of
God in their Deliverance : In Six Chapters : To
which is subjoined. An Appendix of Remark-
able Occurrences which New-England had in
the Wars with the Indian Salvages, from the
Year 1688, to the Year 1698. By the Reverend
and Learned Cotton Mather, M.A. And Pastor
of the North Church in Boston, New-England.
London Printed for Thomas Parkhurst, at the
Bible andThree Crownsin Cheapside. MDCCII.
Letit by Mr. Frederick L. Gay.
Concerning this remarkable book the Quarkrly Review sajs :
• One of the most singular works in this or any other language. Its
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puns and its poems, its sermons and its anagrams, render it imique in
its kind."
It is the first collected edition of the works of an American author.
It is a standard work, and must always be consulted by students of
early New England affairs Many important events happened during
the lifetime of Dr. Mather, and as he was a keen obsei-ver, and has
recorded in his history many of the things he saw, Ave seem to be
almost in touch with the events themselves. He had excellent oppor-
tunities for consulting authentic documents, many of which are now
lost, and manj' of his facts are attested by living witnesses, with whom
he had held personal interviews. The title shows that it is a civil as
well as an ecclesiastical history. A large portion, also, is devoted to
biography, which affords the reader a distinct view of the leading
characters of the times. It has been reprinted several times.
431. Wheatley, Phillis. Poems on Various Subjects,
Religious and Moral. By Phillis Wheatley,
Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley of Bos-
ton, in New England. London. Printed for
A. Bell, Bookseller, Aldgate ; and sold by
Messrs. Cox and Berry, King-Street, Boston,
MDCCLXXIII.
Lent by The Public Library of Boston.
A remarkable example of how one who was taken from the lowest
condition of humanity was in a few years raised to a position in which
she attracted the notice and approbation of persons in elevated sta-
tions. This negro girl, born in Africa about ITo.*^, and brought to
Boston about 1760, was bought as a slave by ^Ir. John Wheatley at
the request of his wife, who wished to obtain a young negress, and,
by training her under her own eye, secure to hersell" a faithiul do-
mestic in her old age. She soon gave indications of uncommon
intelligence, and within sixteen months had acquired the English
language to such a degree that she was able to road the most difti-
cult parts of the Scriptures and to write. The family became greatly
interested in her, and under careful training her mind was developed,
and she soon attracted the literary people of tlu; day, especially
by her verse, which she began to write as early as licr fourteenth
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year. At the age of nineteen, on account of ill health, a sea voyage
was advised, and she was taken to England, where she was well re-
ceived by Lady Huntington, Lord Dartmouth and other prominent
people. During her stay in England her poems were given to the
world, dedicated to the Countess of Huntington, and embellished with
a portrait which is said to be a faithful likeness of her.
Owing to the declining health of her mistress she returned to
Boston in the latter part of 1773. Mrs. Wheatley died in 1774 and
Phillis survived her only ten years. Her poems have considerable
merit and have been several times reprinted.
432. Mather, Increase. KOMHTOrPA^lA or a Dis-
course Concerning Comets ; wherein the Nature
of the Blazing Stars is Enquired into : With
an Historical Account of all of the Comets which
have appeared from the Beginning of the World
unto this present Year, MDCLXXXIII. Ex-
pressing The Place in the Heavens, where they
were seen, Their Motion, Forms, Duration ;
and the Kemarkable Events which have followed
in the World, so far as they have been by
Learned Men Observed. As also two Sermons
Occasioned by the late Blazing Stars. By In-
crease Mather, Teacher of a Church at Boston
in New-England. Boston in New England.
Printed by S. G. for S. S. and sold by J.
Browning at the corner of Prison Lane next
the Town House 1683.
Lent by The Public Library of Boston.
Occasioned by the appearance in the heavens in December, 1679,
of a blazing star, " with a stream (over sixty degrees in length) of
such a stupendous magnitude, as that few men now living ever be-
held the like." It created so much excitement among the people that
the Rev. Increase Mather was asked to explain it, which he did by
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writing this book, to which he added two sermons which he had
already preached upon the same subject. First he presents the
theory of comets, or blazing stars, and then a history of comets from
the beginning of the world. It might reasonably be called our first
scientific treatise. He concludes as follows: "The star-gazers in
Babylon, who by looking upon the heavens, and observing the
courses and conjunctions of the stars there would undertake to tell
the fates and fortunes of kingdoms ; all the judicial astrologers and
wizards there, could not by all their skill in the stars read their own
nation's ruin, until the day that it came upon them. Therefore, it is
not good positively to determine what the particular miseries or mu-
tations are, nor the persons or places that shall undoubtedly perceive
the effects thereof, when rare conjunctions of the planetary bodies
happen, or when blazing stars appear. Only that at least some of
those evils which have been wont to attend the like appearances, are
at the door, we may rationally conjecture and conclude "
433. Norton, John. The Heart of New-England Rent at
the Blasphemies of the present Generation. Or
a brief Tractate, Concerning the Doctrine of the
Quakers, Demonstrating the destructive nature
thereof, to Religion, the Churches, and the
State ; with consideration of the Remedy against
it. Occasional Satisfaction to Objections, and
Confirmation of the contrary Truth. By John
Norton, Teacher of the Church of Christ at
Boston, who was appointed thereunto, by the
Orderof the General Court. London. Printed
by J. H, for John Allen at the Rising-Sunne in
St. PauVs Church-Yard 1(360.
Lent hy The Public Library of Boston.
Rev. John Norton was one of the most eminent theological writers
of his time. Born in England, May <i, 1G06, graduated at the Univer-
sity of Cambridge, which he entered when fourteen years of age, and
having taken holy orders, he came to New England in l»;3r>. Aftor
G2
having preached a short time at Plymouth he removed to the Massa-
chusetts colony, and in 1638 became pastor of the church at Ipswich.
In 1644 he was unanimously chosen by the New England divines to
reply to the questions concerning church government which had been
sent over by the divines of England. His reply, elegantly written in
Latin, was published in 1645, and is said to have been the first book
prepared in that language in New England. In 1645 he preached
the annual election sermon before the Great and General Court. In
1650 William Pynchon of Springfield published a book in which he
maintained the damnable heresy " that Christ did not suffer for us
those unutterable torments of God's wrath that are commonly called
Hell-torments." The General Court ordered the book to be burned
by the executioner in the market place in Boston, and requested Mr.
Norton to reply to it. He responded to the request, and his reply was
published in 1653.
In 1656 he was installed as teacher of the First Church in Boston
and was the colleague of the Rev. John Wilson. About this time
the people of Boston were much incensed against the Quakers, and
soon passed laws against them and those who befriended them. At
the request of the Legislature Mr. Norton prepared a pamphlet
entitled The Heart of New Englaiid rent, in which he explains the
doctrine of the Quakers and how it was prejudicial to the interests of
New England. Pie contends that this country was a religious planta-
tion, not a plantation for trade, and declaims against the aggression
of those who came with the purpose to break up the costly enter-
prise, and that those who engaged in these turbulent proceedings
should be punished.
The volume furnishes us with a clear view of how the New Eng-
land fathers regarded the Quakers.
441, Cotton, John. Gods Promise To ]lis Plantation.
2 Sam. 7. 10. Moreover, 1 will appoint a
place for my people Israel, and I will plant
them, that they may dwell in a place of their
owne, and move no more. As it was delivered
in a Sermon, by John Cotton, B.D. and
Preacher of Gods word in Boston. London,
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Printed by William Jones for John Bellamy,
and are to be solde (at the Golden Lyons by
the Royal Exchange 1630.)
Lent by Harvard College Library.
The author was Rev. John Cotton, at that time the brilliant preacher
of the Ancient Church of St. Botolph in Boston, Eng , perhaps the most
stately parish church in England, a cathedral in size and beauty. He
was a stanch and uncompromising advocate of Puritanism, and " it
was from this superb temple," as Palfrey says in his History of New
England, " that John Cotton came to preach the (lospel within the
mud walls and under the thatched roof of the meeting-house in a rude
New England hamlet."'
At the departiire of Winthrojj's comi)any, Cotton made a journey
to take leave of them at Southampton, at which time he preached the
sermon which was tirst printed in 1630, but has been reprinted several
times under this title, God's Promise to his Plantati07i. It was com-
posed in view of the fact that the largest fleet and greatest number
of emigrants ever fitted out for New England were about to depart.
The text was very haj^pily chosen, and in the sermon Cotton pre-
sents the reasons which may justify so serious a step as forming a new
settlement such as the Massachusetts Bay Compan}' were i)lanning.
He also advises : " Have a special care that you ever have the ordi-
nances planted amongst you, or else never look for security. Be not
unmindful of our Jerusalem at home. (Jo forth with a public spirit,
looking not for your own things only, but also on the things of others.
Offend not the poor natives but as you partake in their land, so make
them partakers in your precious faith. As you reap their tempoi'als,
so feed them your spirituals. Win them to the love of Christ, for
whom Christ died,'' etc.
The books wliich furnish us with the real views and feelings of the
colonists themselves, and of many in England towards them, are
The Planter's Plea, presumed to have been written by llev. John
White, and published in London in 1630, shortly after the departure
of Winthrop ; The Humble Ueifuest of His Majes/irs Jjoi/all Subjccls,
written on board of the "Arbella" by Winthrop and otliers, and
published just as they were leaving England ; and (io<rs I'nn/n^i In
his Planlatinn, preaclied to them V)y Cotton while waiting at South-
ampton.
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442. Hubbard, William. A Narrative of the Troubles
with the Indians In New-England, from the
first planting thereof in the year 1607. to this
present year 1677. But chiefly of the late
Troubles in the two last years, 1675. and 1676
To which is added a Discourse about the Warre
with the Pequods In the year 1637, By W.
Hubbard, Minister of Ipswich. Published by
Authority. Boston ; Printed by John Foster,
in the year 1677.
Lent by Harvard College Library.
A narrative that has always been regarded by historians as a
standard of authority, and has received the lionor of having been
many times reprinted. In the Advertiser ncnt to the Reader the
author says : " Much of what is herein mentioned, depending on the
single authority of particular persons, an exact description of ever}"
occurrence was hardly to be obtained. All soldiers are not like
Cassar, able to describe with their pens, what they have done with
their swords. But the most material passages inserted, were either
gathered out of the letters, or taken from the mouths of such as were
eye or ear-witnesses of the things themselves, and those also persons
worthy of credit." The Imprimatur reads : " The worthy author of
this Narrative (of whose fidelity we are well assured) by his great
pains and industry, in collect! t)g and compiling the several occurances
of this Indian War, from the relations of such as were present in par"
ticular actions, hath faithfully and truly performed the same, as far
as best information agreeing could be obtained, which is therefore
judged meet for public view : and we whose names are underwritten,
deputed by the (xovernour and Council of the Massachusetts Colony to
peruse and license the same ; have and do accordingly order it to be
imprinted, as being of public benefit, and judge the author to have
deserved due acknowledgement and thanks for the same.
Simon Bi{ADStreet
Boston, March 29 Danikl Denison
1677 Joseph Dudley.'
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Mr. Hubbard was the minister of Ipswich, Mass., where he died
Sept. 24, 1704, aged eighty-three. He was remarkable for liberality,
moderation and piety.
443. Penhallow, Samuel. The Histon^ of the Wars of
New-England, With the Eastern Indians, or,
a Narrative Of their continued Perfidy and
Cruelty, from the 10th of August, 1703. To
the Peace renewed 13th. of July, 1713. And
from the 25th. of July, 1722. To their Sub-
mission 15th. December, 1725. Which was
Ratified August 5th. 1726. By Samuel Pen-
hallow, Esqr. Boston : Printed by T. Fleet,
for S. Gerrish at the lower end of Cornhill, and
D. Henchman over-against the Brick Meeting-
House in Cornhill, 1726.
Lent hy Harvard College Library.
An authentic history of the Indian wars from 1703 to 1726, and
which was much relied upon by Samuel G. Drake, the historian of
the Indians. Samuel Penhallow, the author, was born in Cornwall,
Eng., in 1665, and died in Portsmouth, N. H., in 1726. Bred a Puri-
tan, he came to New England with Rev. Charles Morton and settled
at Portsmouth, where he was judge of the Supreme Court in 1714, and
chief justice from 1717 to his death. He was also for several years
treasurer of the province. Although he says he had used all faith-
fulness in compiling his history, had been assisted by abstracts from
original letters and by persons of the best credit and reputation, yet
his history is not free from bias, as he also sa3's the Indians are
bloody pagans, monsters of cruelty, disregardful of treaty obligations
and implacable in their revenge. He adds : "Now considering the
league that has been solenmized with the Indians, together with their
cruelty and treachery so notoriously perpetrated, it is no wonder if in
the sequel of this history, we find thcni under some signal remark of
the Divine displeasure."
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444. Dummer, Jer [emiab] . A Defence of the New-
England Charters. By Jer. Dummer. Lon-
don : Printed by W. Wilkins, and sold by J.
Peele, at Locke's-Head in Pater-noster-Eow.
MDCCXXI.
Lefit hy Harvard College Library.
The new charter of 1691 took away from the Massachusetts colony
many rights before claimed and exercised by the colonists, and was
strongly opposed by many, but was finally adopted by a majority
of the General Court. Some of the acts were disregarded, or at least
not enforced, and in 1701 a bill was brought into Parliament for re-
uniting all the charter governments to the crown.
In the preamble of this bill it was declared that the severing of
such power and authority from the crown had been found by experi-
ence to be prejudicial to the trade of the kingdom and to his majesty's
revenue. The bill declared the charters of all plantations to be
utterly void and of no efifeet. The agents of the colonies appeared
before the House of Lords, and the bill was defeated. In the next
reign, that of George I., the subject of annulling the charters was
again brought before Parliament, and it was with great diflSculty that
the New England charters were saved. Jeremiah Dummer, a promi-
nent member of the colony, was the agent in London of Massachusetts
and Connecticut He wrote a defence of the New England charters
which he addressed to Lord Carteret, one of the secretaries of State,
and which was published in London in 1721. It was drawn with
great ability and judgment and had no little influence in preserving
the charter. It was reprinted in 1760 to oppose the imposition of
the stamp duties.
445. [Williams, John.] The Redeemed Captive, Re-
turning to Zion. A Faithful History of Remark-
able Occurances, in the Captivity and the
Deliverance of Mr. John AVilliams : Minist<»r
of the Gospel in Deerfield, Who in the Desola-
tion which befel that Plantation, by an Incui*-
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sion of the French & Indians, was by Them
carried away, with his Family, and his Neigh-
borhood, unto Canada. Whereto there is an-
nexed a Sermon Preeched by him, upon his
Return at the Lecture in Boston, Decemb. 5,
1706. On those Words, Luk. 8. 39. Return
to thine own House, and shew how great
Things God hath done unto thee. Boston in
N. E. Printed by B. Green for Samuel Phil-
lips, at the Brick Shop, 1707.
Lent hy Harvard College Library.
One of the sad events of the war known as Queen Anne's war was
the destruction of Deerfield, Mass., by the French and Indians in
1704. The attacking force, which consisted of three hundred men,
came from Canada by way of Lake Champlain and the Connecticut
River. They surprised the town, killed forty-seven of the inhabitants
and carried one hundred and twelve into captivity to Quebec, which
was about three hundred miles distant. Only one garrison house held
out against the enemy.
Among the captives was the minister of the town, Rev. John
Williams. Two of his children were killed, but his wife and remain-
ing children were compelled to join with the other captives in the
march to Canada. On the second day Mrs. Williams was so fatigued
that she faltered, and her savage master slew her with a tomahawk.
At different times most of the captives were redeemed, Mr. Williams
and fifty-seven others arriving at Boston from (Quebec in 1706. Mr.
Williams returned to Deerfield, collected his scattered flock, and
continued as their minister until his death, in 1728.
Mr. Williams' history of his captivity, first published in 1707,
proved to be a very popular book, and has been reprinted many
times.
446. [Otis, James.] The Rudiments of Latin Pro.^ody :
with A Dissertation on I^ictters, and th(i Prin-
cipals of Harmony, in Poetic and Prosaic Com-
position. Collected irom some of the Best
68
Writers. Boston. N. E. Printed and Sold
by Benj. Mecom, at the New Printing-Office,
near the Town-House, MDCCLX.
Lent hy Harvard College Library.
Although his name does not appear on the title-page it is known
that the author was James Otis, who later became the great defender
of the rights of the colonies. It is divided into two parts, separately
paged, the Prosody occupying sixty pages and the Dissertation
seventy-two. Only a few months after its publication, Otis, " with a
tongue of flame and the inspiration of a seer," was arguing the ques-
tion of writs of assistance in the council chamber in Boston, and lead-
ing the van of American patriots.
447. Bayley, Nathaniel. English and Latine Exercises,
for School-Boys : Comprising all the Rules of
Syntaxis. with Explanations, and other neces-
sary Observations on each Rule, and shewing
The Genitive Case, and Gender of Nouns and
Pronowns ; as also the P( re ter) perfect Tense,
Supine, and Conjuga(tion) of Verbs. Answer-
ing Perfectly to the Design of Mr. Gar(retson,)
and Hermes Romanus, in bringing on Learners
most gradually and exped (it) ously to the Trans-
lating of Engl(ish into) Latine. By N. Bay-
ley, Schoolmaster. The Fifth Edition, newly
Improv'd and Rovis'd by several Hands. Bos-
ton : Printed by T. Fleet, for the Booksellers
& Sold at their Shops. 1720
Lent hy Harvard College Library.
The grammar school of the seventeenth century was a Latin gram-
mar school, where the pupils were taught principally Latin, therefore
the greater portion of the text-books that have come down to us are
in the Latin language. In the first century after the settlement of
New England very few text-books were printed in New England ;
69
nearly all were brought from England. Those that were printed,
however, were well chosen, for instance, Bailey's Exercises, Hod-
der's Arithmetick, Hill's Secretary's Guide and Hoole"s Sentences.
Nathaniel Bailey was a schoolmaster at Stepney, and, in addition
to the Latin Exercises, published a Speller and An Umversal Ety-
mological English Dictionary, which was for many years the stand-
ard, until displaced by Johnson's It was the first English dictionary
illustrated with woodcuts.
448. Culman, Leonard. Sententiae Pueriles Anglo
Latinae, Quas e diversis authoribus dim colle-
gerat, Leonardus Culman ; Et in Vernaculum
Sermonem nuperrime transtulit, Carolus Hoole :
Pro primis Latinae Linguae Tjronibus. Sen-
tences for Children, English and Latin. Col-
lected out of sundry Authors long since, By
Leonard Culman : And now Translated into
English By Charles Hoole : For the First
Entrers into Latin. Boston in N. E. Printed
by B. Green, & J. Allen, for Samuel Phillips
at the Brick Shop. 1702.
Lent by Harvard College Library.
Omitting catechisms and primers, this, perhaps, is the earliest ex-
tant schoolbook printed in New England.
Charles Hoole, a well-known and successful teacher in London for
more than twenty years, in the seventeenth century, wrote several
text-books, which were so highly prized that they were printed for
the use of the college at Eton. On account of his services to litera-
ture and education. Bishop Saunderson gave him the rectory of
Stock, in Essex, and a prebend in Lincoln (Cathedral. It speaks well
for the intelligence of the school committee of Boston that several oT
Mr. Iloole's text-books were prescribed for the Boston Latin School.
449. Mather, Increase. An lOssay For the Kcscorditig of
Illu.striou.'^ Providences, Wherein an Account is
70
given of many Remarkable and very Memorable
Events, which have happened in this last Age ;
Especially in New-England. By Increase
Mather, Teacher of a Church at Boston in New-
England. Boston in New England Printed
by Samuel Green for Joseph Browning. And are
to be sold at his Shop at the corner of the Prison
Lane. 1684
Lent hy Harvard College Library.
The title-page of this book was set up twice ; for other form
see 243.
450. Church, Thomas. The Entertaining History of King
Philip's War, Which began in the Month of
June, 1675. as also of Expeditions more lately
made Against the Common Enemy, and Indian
Rebels, in the Eastern Parts of New-England :
With some Account of the Divine Providence
towards Col. Benjamin Church : By Thomas
Church Esq. his Son, The Second Edition.
Boston: Printed, 1716. Newport, Rhode
Island : Reprinted and Sold by Solomon South-
wick, in Queen-Street, 1772
Lent hy Harvard College Library.
A history of the most important of the Indian wars of New Eng-
land. Philip or Metacomet, son of Massasoit, had induced the Indian
tribes of New England to combine together to exterminate the Eng-
lish. An army of one thousand English was raised by the Commis-
sioners of the United Colonies to break up the Indian confederacy,
and was placed under command of Governor Winslow. The part
which Colonel Church took in the war is narrated in this history by
his son, Thomas Church. It was published at IJoston in 1716, two
years before the death of Colonel Church.
Copies of this edition are so rare as to be practically unattainable,
71
and we exhibit a copy of the second edition, in which the portraits
are engraved by Paul Revere. One of the important events of the
war was the Narragansett swamp fight. Philip had fortified a small
island in an immense swamj), and had about him three thousand In-
dians, well supplied with provisions. Against the fort Governor Wins-
low marched his troops, being guided by a treacherous Indian. After
a stubborn defence, which cost the English eighty men killed and one
hundred and fifty wounded, the fort was taken, and an indiscriminate
slaughter of Indians, men, women and children, took place, about
seven hundred being killed. The war lasted two years, during which
Philip was killed and the Indians met with such disasters that they
were glad to sue for peace, which was kept for twenty years.
451. Mather, Increase. A Brief History of the War with
the Indians in New-England. From June 24.
1675. (when the first Engli.shman was Murdered
by the Indians) to August 12, 1676. when Philip,
alias Metaconiet, the princ(i)pal Author and
Beginner of the War, was slain. Wherein the
Grounds, Beginning, and Progress of the War,
is summarily expressed. Together with a seri-
ous Exhortation to the Inhabitants of that Land.
By Increase Mather, Teacher of a Church of
Christ, in Boston in New-England. London,
Printed for Richard Chiswell, at the Rose and
Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard, according
to the Original Copy Printed in New-England
1676.
Lent by Ilarvard College Library.
A contemjjorary history- of the first year of King Philip's war.
The next year the same author published Itclation of the Troubles
which have hapened in New Enylajid Jiom 1014 to 107 r>. (See No.
246.)
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452. [Mather, Increase.] The Life and Death of That
Reverend Man of God, Mr. Richard Mather,
Teacher of the Church in Dorchester in New-
England. Cambridge : Printed by S. G. and
M. J. 1670.
Lent by Harvard College Library.
Richard Mather was one of the most learned of the New Eng-
y land divines. His opinions on theological subjects were much re-
spected, and he served on many of the assemblies convened to con-
sult on church affairs. He was prominent in civil affairs also, and
there is in existence an important petition of the town of Dorchester,
/ in his handwriting, presented to the General Court in 1664, protesting
against the imposition of taxes by the King.
He was bom in England in 1596, studied at Oxford, was ordained
J as a minister, and settled at Toxteth in 1618. Suspended for non-
conformity in 1633, he came to New England in 1635, and was settled
as a minister at Dorchester in 1636, where he^remained until his
death, in 1669. With Eliot and Welde he made a new version of The
Whole Booke of Psalmex, which was published in 1640 ; and the Plat-
^/form of Chtcrch Discipline, adopted by the synod of 1648, was chiefly
^ from his model. Cotton Mather says : " lie published two catechismSj__
a lesser and a larger, so well formed that a Luther himself would not
have been ashamed of being a learner from him." Of these cate-
chisms only one copy of the "larger," published in 1650, is known to
be in existence. A second edition of one of his catechisms was pub-
lished in 1665, a copy oT which was distriljuted to each family in the
town of Dorchester and paid for out of the town rate. As no copy is ^
/^known to be extant, it is not known whether it was the 'lesser" or
" larger " catechism,
453. Hodder, James. Hodder s Arithmetick : Or, That
Necessary Art Made most Easy. Being ex-
plained in a way familiar to the Capacity of
any that desire to learn it in a little time. By
James Hodder, Writing-Master. The Twenty
Eighth Edition, Revised, Augmented, and
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above a Thousand Faults Amended, by Henry
Mose late Servant and Successor to the Author
London : Printed for N. & M. Boddington at
the Golden Ball in Duck Lane ; B. Tooke, at
the Middle Temple Gate in Fleet-Street; D.
Midwinter, at the Three Crowns and B. Cowse,
at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-
yard 1719.
Lent by Harvard College Library.
Arithmetic, as a rule, was not taught in the grammar school but in
the writing school James Hodder, the author of this arithmetic, was
the master of a writing school in London, to whom Charies lloole
sent his scholars to leam writing and arithmetic. The first edition of
Hodder's arithmetic was published in London in 1661. It met with
great success, the twentieth edition being published in 1697. In 1719
the twenty-fifth edition was reprinted in Boston, New England, by
James Franklin, the elder brother of Benjamin Frauklin, to whom
Benjamin was apprenticed as a printer.
The first arithmetic by an American author was wi'itten by Isaac /
Greenwood, Hollisian professor of mathematics at Harvard College,
and printed in Boston by S. Kneeland and T. Green, 1729. Nearly
sixty years elapsed before the second American arithmetic was pub-
lished, the books used in the schools being the English favorites,
Hodder, Cocker and Uilworth.
454. [Holyoke, Edward.] Pictas et gratulatio collegii
cantabrigiensis apud novan<>:lo.s. Bostoni-Mas-
.sachusettensium Typis J. Green & J. Kussel
MDCCLXL
Lent by Uarvard College Library.
An elegiac and complimentary volume, occasiont-d by the death ol
George II., the accession of George 1H., and the inarriag.! of tl»e
Princess Charlotte. It i.s the result of a competition among the
undergraduates of Harvard ('ollege, or tho.se who had taken a degree
within seven years Six guinea prizes were olfered for the best Latin
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oration, Latin poem in hexameters, Latin elegy in hexameters and
pentameters, Latin ode, English poem in long verse and English ode.
Governor Bernard, who had just entered on his office, is credited with
the idea. There are thirty-one papers in all, excluding the introduc-
tory address to the King. Among the writers were President Hol-
yoke, John Lovell, Stephen Sewall, John Lowell, James Bowdoin,
Samuel Deane, Benjamin Church, Samuel Cooper, Francis Bernard
and Thomas Oliver, names which later became famous in the various
walks of life. Both in taste and scholarship the volume compares
favorably with a similar publication in England. In a letter pre-
senting a copy to Thomas Hollis, Pre.sident Holyoke says it is " an
attempt of several young gentlemen here with us, and educated in
this college, to show their pious sorrow on account of the death of
our late glorious king, their attachment to his royal house, the joy
they have in the accession of his present majesty to the British throne,
and in the prospect they have of the happiness of Britain from the
Royal Progeny which they hope for from his alliance with the illus-
trious house of Mechlenburg,"
506, Willard, SamueL A Compleat Body of Divinity
in Two Hundred and Fifty Expository
Lectures on the Assembly's Shorter Catechism
Wherein The Doctrines of the Christian Re-
ligion are unfolded, their Truth confirm'd, their
Excellence display'd, their Usefulness improv'd ;
contrary Errors & Vices refuted & expos'd,
Objections answer'd, Controversies settled,
Cases of Conscience resolv'd ; and a great Light
thereby reflected on the present Age. By the
Reverend & Learned Samuel Willard, M. A.
Late Pastor of the South Church in Boston, and
Vice-President of Harvard College in Cam-
bridge, in New-England. Prefac'd by the
Pastors of the same Church. Boston in New
Enirland : Printed ])v B. Green and S. Knee-
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land for B. Eliot and D. Henchman, and Sold
at their Shops. MDCCXXVI.
Lent by Mr. Joseph Willard.
An excellent illustration of the great esteem in which the West-
minster Catechism was held by our colonial ancestors. A book must
be highly prized upon which two himdred and fifty lectures could be
written, which, when published, made a folio volume of one thousand
pages. The author was Rev Samuel Willard, bom at Concord, Jan.
31, 1640. He was graduated at Harvard College in 1659, of which
institution he afterwards became vice-president. He was one of the
most prolific of the New England writers. " Mr. Willard possessed
very superior powers of mind. His imagination was rich though not
luxuriant, his perception was rapid and correct, and in argument he
was profound and clear. In the time of the witchcraft delusion he
distinguished himself by opposing the rash proceedings of the courts.
His chief work is his Body of Divinity, a folio volume, made up of
monthly lectures, delivered for nineteen years." At the time of pub-
lication it was the largest volume that had been produced in the
colonies, and required the use of several presses upon which to print
it.
INDEX
Anonymone
Anonymons
ADOnymouB
Anonymous
Bayley, Nathaniel
(Bradetreet, Anne)
Church, Thomas
Cotton, John .
Culman, Leonard
Dnmmer, Jeremiah
Eliot, John
(Eliot, John) .
(Endicott, John)
Flavell, John .
Foxcroft, Thomas
Hale, John
(Harris, Benjamin)
Hill, Thomas .
Hodder, James
(Holyoke, Edward)
Hubbard, William
(Lewis, Ezekiel)
Lyon, James .
Mason, John .
(Mather, Cotton)
(Mather, Cotton)
Mather, Cotton
Mather, Cotton
(Mather, Cotton)
(Mather, Cotton)
Mather, Cotton
Mather, Cotton
Mather, Increase
Mather, Increase
Mather, Increase
Mather, Increase
Mather, Increase
(Mather, Increase)
(Mather, Increase)
Mather, Increase
(Mather, Richard)
(Mather, Richard)
Mayhew, Experience
BKIBF TITLK
. Breeches Bible
. First Boston Directory .
. Freemen's Oath
. Massach\isett8 Code
, English-Latin Exercises
, Poems ....
, Indian Wars .
. God's Promise
, Sententiae Puerlles .
. Defence of N. E. Charters
. Indian Bible .
. New England's First Fruits
. Humble Petition
. England's Duty
. First Century Sermon .
. Modest Enquiry
. New England Primer
. Toung Secretary's Guide
Arlthmetick .
. I'ietas et gratulatio ,
, Indian Wars .
. Cheever's Latin Accidence
Urania ....
. Pequot War .
Accomplished Singer
, BonifaciuB
, Life of John Eliot .
. Magnalia ....
. Parentator
Ratio Disciplina!
, Wonders, Invisible World
Wonders, Invisible World
Angelographia
, Indian Wars .
IllufltriouB Providences
Illustrious Providences
, K () M HTO rPA*! A
Life of Richard Mather
, Walter's Ordination
, Philip's War .
, Hay I'salm Book .
. Cambridge Plutforni
. Indian Converts
riUNTBR VUIUKK
. London, 1699 . . . .320
. John Norman, 1789 . . . 163
. Facsimile 229
. (Samuel Green) 1660 . . 161
. Thomas Fleet, 1720 . . .447
. John Foster, 1678 . . . 240
. Reprint, Newport, 1772 . . 460
. London, 1630 . . . .441
. B. Green & J. Allen, 1702 . 448
. London, 1721 .... 444
. Samuel Green, 1685 . . .160
. London, 1643 . . . .181
. (Samuel Green) 1660 . . 163
. London, 1689 . . . .228
. 8. Kneeland & T. Green, 1730 . 233
. B. Green & J. Allen, 1702 . 236
. Boston, 1784 .... 322
. Reprint, Boston, 1727 . . 328
. London, 1719 . . . .463
. J. Green & J. Russell, 1761 . 464
. John Foster, 1677 ... 442
. John Mycall, 1785 . . .330
. Philadelphia, 1781 . . .149
. S. Kneeland & T. Green, 1736 . 237
. Bartholomew Green, 1721 . 326
. Bartholomew Green, 1710 . 248
. B. Harris & J. Allen, 1691 . 326
. London, 1702 .... 340
. Bartholomew Green, 1724 . 338
. For Samuel Gerrish, 1726. . 148
. Benjamin Harris, 1693 . . 235
. Reprint, Loiulon, 1693 . . 336
. B. Green & J. Allen, 1696 . 242
. John Foster, 1677 . . .246
. Samuel Green, 1684 . . . 243
. Samuel Green, 1684 . . .449
.S. Green for S. Sewall, 1683 . 4.'52
. S. Orecu & M. Johnson, 1670 . 452
. Samuel Kneeland, 1718 . . 161
. Reprint, London, 1676 . . 451
. (Stephen Day) 1640; N. Y.1903 147»
. .John Foster, 16S0 . . .160
. London, 1727 . . . .248
78
Moodey, Samuel
Morton, Charles
Morton, Nathaniel
Morton, Thomas
Norton, John .
(Otis, James) -
Penhallow, Samuel
Prince, Thomas
(Prince, Thomas)
(Prince, Thomas)
Sewall, Samuel
Shepard, Thomas
Shepard, Thomas
(Steere, Richard)
Stone, Samuel •
Strong, Nathaniel
Symmes, Thomas
Torrey, Samuel
Tulley, John .
(Ward, Nathaniel)
Wheatley, Phillis
Wigglesworth, Michael
Willard, Samuel
(Williams, John)
Winthrop, John
Wise, John
Wood, William
BBIEF TITLE PBIKTER NCMBBK
Dolefnll State of Damned . Timothy Green, 1710 . , 162
Spirit of Man .... Benjamin Harris, 1693 . . 324
, New-England's Memoriall . S. Green & M. Johnson, 1669 . 335
New English Canaan . . Amsterdam, 1637 . . . 334
. Heart of New -England Rent . London, 1660 .... 433
. Latin Prosody . . . Benjamin Mecom, 1760 . . 446
. Indian Wars .... Thomas Fleet, 1726 . . . 443
• Chronology . . . . S. Kneeland & T. Green, 1736 . 244
. Ordination Sermon . . James Franklin, 1718 . . 323
. Psalms and Hymns . . Boston, 1758 .... 321
. Phsenomena qusedam . . Bartholomew Green, 1727 . 238
, Catechism .... Rogers & Fowle, 1747 . . 327
. Parable of Ten "Virgins . . (London) 1695 . . . .239
. Daniel Catcher . . . (John Allen) 1713 . . .180
Catechism . . . . Samuel Green, 1684; Hart , 1899 231
. Perfect Schoolmaster . . Reprint, Boston, 1720 . . 329
, Lovewell, Lamented . . Bartholomew Green, Jr., 1725 . 339
. Election Sermon . . .8. Green for S. Sewall, 1683 . 164
.Almanack . . . . B. Green & J. Allen, 1698 . 230
. Simple Cobler . . . Reprint, Boston, 1713 . . 250
, Poems London, 1773 .... 431
. Day of Doom . . . . B. Green & J. Allen, 1701 . 337
, Body of Divinity . . . B. Green & S. Kneeland, 1726 . 506
. Redeemed Captive . . . Bartholomew Green, 1707 . 445
. Journal Elisha Babcock, 1790 . . 247
. Churches Quarrel . . . Reprint, Boston, 1715 . . 241
. New England's Prospect . Reprint, Boston, 1764 . . 245
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