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 ISSUED BY THE 
 
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 1895 
 

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE HISTORICAL PUBLICATIONS OF 
 THE NEW-ENGLAND STATES. 
 
 The purpose of this paper is to give a Bibliographical Account 
 of the collections of printed. Archives of the several New England 
 States, with descriptive analyses of their contents. 
 
 As introductory to the Bibliography proper, it has seemed to me 
 fit to enumerate briefly the more recent additions to the printed 
 documentary literature upon American history. It has been no 
 part of my plan to include in the Bibliography the reprints of the 
 Bodies of Laws, such as Whitmore's editions of the Laws of 1660 
 and 1672, or that monumental work of minute historical research, 
 Mr. Goodell's edition of the Province Laws. 
 
 I have not attempted any account of Colonial Legislation, except 
 that I have put down some few facts necessary to a bibliographical 
 description of the printed records. 
 
 The progress of historical research and the more widely recog- 
 nized necessity of recourse to original sources for the correct 
 understanding of historical questions have brought about an in- 
 creased activity in the printing of documentary material. 
 
 Within a comparatively short period the literature of the English 
 beginnings of American history has received the following acces- 
 sions : the Calendars of State Papers published by the Public 
 Record Office, the Reports of the Historical Manuscripts Com- 
 naission, Stevens's "Fac-similes of Historical Manuscripts," and 
 Brown's " Genesis of the United States." 
 
 From France we have had Doniol's " Histoire de la participation 
 de la France a I'^tablissement des Etats-Unis d'Am^rique," in five 
 large quarto volumes. 
 
 For Spanish America the series of forty odd volumes of reprints 
 of papers, narratives, etc., from the archives of Spain, entitled 
 " Coleccion de documentos in^ditos relatives al descubrimiento, con- 
 quista y colonizacion de las posesiones Espaiiolas en America ; " 
 the " Cartas de Indias," and " Icazbalceta's Nueva Coleccion de 
 documentos para la historia de Mexico." 
 
4 THE COLONIAl SOCIETY OP MASSACHUSETTS. [Apkii,, 
 
 The great body of Columbus documents brought out by the 
 celebration of the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of 
 America would require a special paper for even a superficial 
 description of its contents. As a representative production of 
 Columbus centenary literature there may be cited the Collection of 
 fourteen folio volumes published by the Royal Columbian Com- 
 mission at Rome under the title « Raccolta di document! e studj 
 pel 4. centenario della Scoperta dell' America." 
 
 Before noticing the collections brought out in tliis country, I 
 will speak of the issues of the Canadian press as touching the 
 documentary history of the United States. In 1883 the Gov- 
 ernment of Canada instituted a Department of Archives, in which 
 have been gathered copies of papers preserved in the depositaries 
 of Europe, as well as original documents belonging to Canada. 
 Mr. Douglas Brymner, the archivist, has calendared the collection, 
 and his successive annual reports from 1883 to 1894 have con- 
 tained the results of his labors. The HakUmand Papers, the cor- 
 respondence of Gage, Lord Amherst, Bouquet, and others, have 
 especial value for our early history. 
 
 In Canada there have also appeared a series of French papers 
 under the editorship of the Abbe Casgrain, comprising reprints of 
 the De L^vis Papers, including the correspondence of Governors 
 Duquesne and Vaudreuil, 1755-1760, the Journal and Letters of 
 Montcalm, etc. ; and the Government has issued a work in four 
 large quarto volumes, entitled " Collection de manuscrits con- 
 tenant lettres, m^moires, et autres documents relatifs a la Nouvelle 
 France." 
 
 Of the thirteen original States of the United States, all but Dela- 
 ware, Georgia, and South Carolina have published some portion of 
 their archives. It devolved upon the Historical Society of Dela- 
 ware to publish all that has appeared in print of the archives of 
 that State, the "Minutes of the Council of the Delaware State 
 from 1776 to 1792," forming one of the volumes of the publications 
 of the Society. The documents relating to the early settlements 
 on the Delaware are necessarily brought into the Pennsylvania and 
 New York publications. 
 
 As the publications of the New England States are to receive 
 distinct treatment further on, I will now briefly record the work 
 of the other States in printing their Records. 
 
1895.] BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HISTOEICAL PUBLICATIONS. 6 
 
 The State of New York has published a series of fifteen vol- 
 umes, entitled " Documents relating to the Colonial history of New 
 York ; " " Calendars of New York Historical Manuscripts," in four 
 volumes, and O'Callaghan's " Documentary History of New York," 
 in four volumes, of which there are octavo and quarto editions 
 published in 1849 and 1850 respectively, the quarto issue having 
 been subjected to revision and extension. 
 
 The records of Pennsylvania have been exhaustively issued for 
 public use, and the series of archives has been most admirably 
 grouped for consultation. The first collection of papers printed 
 was published under the editorship of Samuel Hazard, with the 
 title " Colonial Records of Pennsylvania " in twelve octavo vol- 
 umes. The second collection has the title of " Pennsylvania Ar- 
 chives," and comprises twelve volumes in a first series and nineteen 
 in a second. In the latter the papers are carefully classified, and 
 single volumes are given up to the "Whiskey Insurrection," " Colo- 
 nies on the Delaware," the " French Occupation of Pennsylvania," 
 " Marriage Records of Colonial Churches," the "Boundary Dispute 
 between Pennsylvania and Maryland," the "Connecticut Settle- 
 ment of "Western Pennsylvania; " and several volumes are devoted 
 to the Revolutionary Rolls, with numerous Journals and Diaries of 
 Revolutionary officers. 
 
 Under the editorsliip, first of William A. Whitehead, and later 
 of William Nelson of the New Jersey Historical Society, the State 
 of New Jersey has published eighteen volumes of "Documents 
 relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey." The 
 eleventh and twelfth volumes, which have lately appeared (pub- 
 lished out of their numerical order), are devoted to historical items 
 from early Colonial Newspapers, with some account of the American 
 Colonial press. 
 
 The Maryland Historical Society has had the supervision of the 
 production of the " Archives of Maryland," and under the skilful 
 editorship of William Hand Browne, there have been published 
 thirteen large quarto volumes, including Proceedings and Acts of 
 the General Assembly, Journals of the Council, Correspondence of 
 Governor Sharpe, Judicial and Testamentary Business of the Pro- 
 vincial Court, Journal of the Council of Safety. 
 
 The State of North Carolina has caused to be gathered in the 
 office of the Secretary of State a full collection of documents mainly 
 
6 THE COLONIAL SOCIETY OP JIASSACHXJSETTS. [April, 
 
 drawn from the Arcliives of Great Britain ; and these papers have 
 been presented in ten large quarto volumes in handsome typo- 
 graphy, but with insufficient editing. Embracing as these papers 
 do everytlnng possible to be found regarding the Province of Caro- 
 lina, they in good measure make up for the inaccessibility of the 
 Records of South Carolina. 
 
 In New England, Connecticut was the first State to put forth a 
 volume of its Records in printed form. The first volume, published 
 in 1850, contains the Documents relating to the Colony prior to 
 the Union with New Haven, and includes the Charter, Records of 
 the General and Particular Courts, Record of Wills and Invento- 
 ries, the Southampton Combination, and Claims to the Pequot 
 Country. The Journals of the General Assembly down to and 
 including part of the year 1776, with the Journals of the Governor 
 and Council, form the body of the Papers printed in the fifteen 
 volumes issued by Connecticut under the title of " The Public 
 Records of the Colony of Connecticut." Two volumes of the 
 Public Records of the State of Connecticut have lately been pub- 
 lished, and are more fully described in the bibliography proper. 
 
 The New Haven Colony Records were published in 1857 and 
 1858 under the editorship of Charles J. Hoadly, the first volume 
 being the " Records of the Colony and Plantation of New Haven, 
 from 1638 to 1649 ;" and the second, " Records of the Colony or 
 Jurisdiction of New Haven from May, 1653, to the Union." 
 
 The first volume of Rhode Island Records was published in 
 1856, and comprised records of the settlements at Providence, 
 Portsmouth, Newport, and Warwick, and of the Colony of Rhode 
 Island and Providence Plantations under the first Charter. The 
 publication of the Records of this State was completed in 1865 
 with the issue of the tenth volume. The Proceedings of the 
 General Assembly and the Proceedings of the Governor and Coun- 
 cil were the chief documents printed, but certain accessory papers 
 were also included. 
 
 The New Hampshire authorities have shown a most commend- 
 able public spirit in collecting and printing the Records of that 
 State. The first volume of the printed series was issued in 1867 
 under the editorship of Nathaniel Ronton, D. D., with the title of 
 " Provincial Papers. Documents, and Records relating to the Prov- 
 ince of New Hampshire, from the earliest Period of its Settle- 
 
1895.] BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HISTOKICAL PUBLICATIONS. 7 
 
 ment." This volume was also issued by the New Hampshire 
 Historical Society as a part of its Collections. The complete set 
 of the printed Records now numbers twenty-four volumes, the first 
 seven bearing the title of Provincial Papers. Vol. 8, is entitled 
 State Papers ; Vol. 9, Town Papers ; Vol. 10, Provincial and State 
 Papers ; Vols. 11-13, Town Papers ; Vols. 14-17, Rolls and Docu- 
 ments relating to Soldiers in the Revolutionary War; Vol. 18, 
 Miscellaneous Provincial and State Papers; Vol. 19, Provincial 
 Papers ; Vols. 20-22, Early State Papers ; and Vols. 23, 24, State 
 of New Hampshire. 
 
 From the fact of having no existence as a State until recent 
 times, Maine necessarily has no legislative Documents for the Colo- 
 nial period. The four volumes of " Documentary History of the 
 State of Maine," published by the Maine Historical Society with 
 the assistance of the State, are concerned with the geographical 
 history and the early settlements. Dr. J. G. Kohl's " History of 
 the Discovery of Maine " constitutes the first volume of the Series ; 
 Hakluyt's " Discourse on Western Planting," the second ; the 
 " Trelawny Papers," the tliird ; and the " Baxter Papers," the 
 foui-th. A volume of " Maine Wills," 1640-1760, and the " York 
 Deeds " in ten volumes, are semi-official publications. 
 
 The singular history of the origin and formation of the State of 
 Vermont gives its Records some special characteristics. The eight 
 volumes of " The Records of the Governor and Council," published 
 by the State from 1873 to 1880 are largely taken up with Docu- 
 ments upon the Controversy of the New Hampshire Grants. 
 They include reports of proceedings of Conventions held at vari- 
 ous towns for the purposes of defence against the claims of New 
 York, or to form plans of union, with reprints of controversial 
 pamphlets on the respective claims of the New York and New 
 Hampshire settlers. 
 
 The printed Records of our own State, as it is well known, are 
 the five volumes edited by Dr. Shurtleff. The Colony Records 
 which Dr. Shurtleif used consist of five folio manuscripts. The 
 first volume begins with the Records of the Company and of the 
 Court of Assistants in England, prior to the transfer of the govern- 
 ment to New England, the last entry giving a meeting of the Court 
 of Assistants on the Arbella, 23 March, 1629-30 ; followed by the 
 Records of the same Bodies in America, beginning with a Court of 
 
8 THE COLONIAL SOCIETY OE MASSACHUSETTS. [Apkil, 
 
 Assistants at Charlestown, 23 August, 1630, and ending with the 
 minutes of the General Court held 10 Decemher, 1641. 
 
 The first volume of Shurtleff's edition also includes a copy of the 
 Colony Charter, printed from the original manuscript, a letter of 
 Governor Cradock in London to Endicott, and letters from the 
 Governor and Company in England to the Governor and Council 
 in America. Shurtleff's second volume is a transcript of the 
 second volume of the manuscripts giving the Kecords of the 
 General Court or Colony, as kept by the Secretary of the Com- 
 monwealth, from 1642 to 1649. 
 
 It will be observed that with the minutes of the Court of Assist- 
 ants in the first volume of the printed work the Records of that 
 Court cease. 
 
 In the first volume of the original manuscript the Records of 
 the Court of Assistants are interspersed in chronological order 
 among the Records of the General Court. The cessation of this 
 method of keeping the Records is perhaps explained by the fact 
 that the Records of both bodies were no longer kept by the same 
 officer. The introduction of a new hand in the duty of keeping 
 the Records probably caused a departure from the method pursued 
 in the first volume, and explains the failure of a continuance of the 
 Court of Assistants' Records. The Records of the Court of As- 
 sistants for the years 1641-1673 are not known to exist, but that 
 such were kept seems certain. 
 
 The contemporaneous copy of the Court Records acquired in 
 1890 by the Public Library of the City of Boston, was found to 
 contain the records of the Court of Assistants, beginning 28 Octo- 
 ber, 1641, and ending with 5 March, 1648 ; and they were printed 
 by Mr. William H. Whitmore in his " Bibliographical Sketch of 
 the Laws of the Massachusetts Colony from 1630 to 1686." 
 
 The Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court for the County of 
 Suffolk has in his custody a volume marked, " Court of Assistants, 
 Second Booke of Records, beganne the third of March, 1673." 
 Tills inscription implies the existence of a First Book of Records, 
 and that one existed is borne out by citations in the Court Files. 
 The composition of this " First Booke of Records " is a matter 
 for conjecture. It may have covered the entire period from 1641, 
 when the first volume of Records stops, down to 1673, with which 
 date the " Second Booke of Records " begins, or it may have 
 
1895.] BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HISTORICAL PUBLICATIONS. 9 
 
 covered a shorter period. Mr. William P. Upham, who is assisting 
 Mr. Noble ^ in preparing the Second Book for the press, is of the 
 opinion that the Barlow excerpt is a copy from records kept by 
 Increase Nowell, who was Secretary of the Colony or Common- 
 wealth down to 1650, and was also Secretary of the Assistants 
 from 1641 to that time. The Barlow excerpt affords internal evi- 
 dence of being a copy from Nowell's notes. Rawson, who suc- 
 ceeded NoweU as Secretary of the General Court or Colony in 
 1650, from the requirements of the position must have taken up 
 Nowell's work for the Court of Assistants at the same time. 
 
 The First Book of Records, therefore, may have begun with 
 Nowell's time, or possibly only with Rawson's assumption of the 
 Secretaryship in 1650. The former seems the more probable 
 theory ; so that the First Book, if it could be found, would fill the 
 gap now existing in the Records of the Court of Assistants for 
 the period from 1641 to 1673. 
 
 The third volume of Shurtleff's work is a transcript of the Rec- 
 ords of the General Court kept by the Clerk of the House of 
 Deputies from 1644 to 1657. It will be remembered that from 
 1634, when the system of representation by Deputies was intro- 
 duced at the Court of Elections, down to 1643, the Assistants and 
 Deputies sat as one body. In 1644 the Houses were divided; the 
 Governor and Magistrates sat in one room, and the Deputies in 
 another. 
 
 Prior to the assembling of the Deputies as a separate body, 29 
 May, 1644, the Secretary, " amongst the magistrates (who is the 
 generall officer of the Commonwealth) for the keeping of the pub- 
 licke records of the same," appears to have been the only recording 
 officer. The Records of the Deputies at their first Meeting were 
 kept by one of their number, presumably Captain Bridges. This 
 last information is due to Mr. William P. Upham, who has arrived 
 at this conclusion after a study of the handwriting in which the 
 Records of the first meeting appear. At the Court of Elections, 
 begun on 14 May, 1645, Edward Rawson was elected Clerk of the 
 Deputies "to enter all votes past in both houses & also those 
 y' passe only by them." 
 
 In 1648 it was deemed necessary to prescribe a definite method 
 
 1 See Mr. Noble's paper read at the February, 1895, meeting, ante, pp. 51-65, 
 and especially pp. 55 and 56. 
 
10 THE COLONIAL SOCIETY OP JIASSACHUSETTS. [Apkil, 
 
 of keeping the Records. At that time the "secretary amongst 
 the magistrates, (who is the gene'all officer of the comon wealth, 
 for the keeping the publike records of the same,)" and the 
 Clerk of the Deputies were given two books each, "bound up 
 with velum & pastboard, ... one to be a iournall to each of them, 
 the other for the faire entry of all lawes, acts, & orders &c, that 
 shall passe the magistrates & deputies, that of the secretaries to 
 be the publike record of the country, that of the clarkes to be a 
 booke onely of coppies." ^ 
 
 The Secretary and Clerk were further directed " to enter into 
 theire journalls respectiuely the titles of all bills, lawes, petitions, 
 &c., that shalbe psented & read amongst them, what are referd 
 to committees & what are voted negatiuely or affirmatively, & so 
 for any additions or alterations." From this it appears that the 
 Secretary and Clerk were each required to keep two books ; viz., 
 a journal of their respective Houses, and a record of the concur- 
 rent proceedings of both Houses, or the General Court. The 
 Secretary's record to be the " publike record of the country," i. e. 
 the Colony or Commonwealth ; and that kept by the Clerk of the 
 Deputies, to be " a booke onely of coppies." 
 
 For the formation of his " publike record," the Secretary was 
 required at the end of each session of the General Court to enter 
 in his Book of Records the " bills, lawes, petitions, &c.," that were 
 given to him by the whole Court " meete together," or by a Com- 
 mittee of the Magistrates and Deputies appointed for this purpose, 
 as appeared " to haue passed the Magistrates & Deputies." 
 
 The Clerk of the Deputies who was given " libertie for one 
 moneth after to transcribe the same into his booke of coppies," 
 seems to have availed himself of this liberty ; for from this time 
 (1648) the two Records (the Secretary's and the Clerk's, as printed 
 in Shurtleff's second and third volumes) agree much more closely, 
 both in arrangement and verbal rendering, than hitherto. 
 
 From the above it would seem that the third volume in the 
 Shurtleff edition is not an authoritative (or "publike record of 
 the country"), but, from 1648, is a " booke onely of coppies," kept 
 by the Clerk of the Deputies for the information and convenience 
 of the lower House. 
 
 The Journals ordered by the Act of 1648 in the following terms : 
 1 Massachusetts Colony Records, ii. 259. 
 
1895.] BIBLIOGEAPHY OF HISTORICAL PUBLICATIONS. 11 
 
 " That the secritaiy & clarke for the Deputies shall briefly enter 
 into theire journalls respectiuely the titles of all bills, orders, 
 lawes, petitions, &c., that shalbe psented & read amongst them, 
 what are referd to committees, & what are voted negatively or 
 aflirmatively," are not known to be extant. Mr. "William P. 
 Upham says that a few leaves now among the files of the Supreme 
 Judicial Court may be fragments of one of these Journals. 
 
 From what has been presented above, it appears that from the 
 time of the separation of the two Houses in 1644 down to 1657, 
 when the Records kept by the Clerk of the Deputies cease, t-^A-o 
 contemporaneous records of the General Court or the Common- 
 wealth are preserved and printed by Shurtleff , — one being that kept 
 by the Secretary " amongst the Magistrates (who is the generall 
 officer of the Commonwealth)," constituting the "publicke record 
 of the country," making the continuous Record found in Shurt- 
 leff 's second and fourth volumes ; the other being the record kept 
 by the Clerk of the House of Deputies, described as a " booke only 
 of coppies," but which included minutes of business introduced 
 into the House, that either did not receive or require approval 
 by the Magistrates, and therefore not entered in the " publicke 
 record of the country." This accounts for what is Shurtleff's 
 third volume, running parallel with the second and part of the 
 fourth volume, and each containing substantially the same matter, 
 with different arrangement and verbal rendering, and the occa- 
 sional entry of an item in one Record not found in the other. 
 
 The fourth and fifth volumes of the Shurtleff collection contain 
 the continuous Records of the General Court from 1650 to the May 
 session of 1686, when the Colony came under the sway of a Royal 
 Commission, with Joseph Dudley as President. 
 
 The unfortunate plan adopted by Dr. Shurtleff to remedy certain 
 deficiencies in the text of the first issue of Vols. I. and II. of the 
 Records, is fully set forth by ^Ir. Whitmore in his " Bibliographical 
 Sketch of the Laws of the Massachusetts Colony." It appears that 
 soon after the publication of the first edition the contemporaneous 
 copy of the Records, now preserved in the Public Library, came 
 to Dr. Shurtleff's hands, and from that he was able to supply cer- 
 tain gaps in the original Records. A new issue of the Shurtleff 
 edition was authorized about this time ; and to introduce the newly- 
 discovered material, Dr. Shurtleff caused the stereotyped plates of 
 
12 THE COLONIAL SOCIETY OP MASSACHUSETTS. [ApKll, 
 
 Vols. I. and II. to be changed, but without giving any notice on 
 tlie titlepages that any alterations had been made. 
 
 The Records of the Plymouth Colony were also intrusted to 
 the editorsMp of Dr. Shurtleff. It may be here observed that the 
 printed titlepages do not correctly represent the editorial work 
 performed by Mr. Pulsifer, who superseded Dr. Shurtleff in the 
 editorship. The titlepages were printed in advance of the print- 
 ing of the volumes, so that Dr. Shurtleff's name appears as an 
 editor upon volumes with which he had nothing to do. 
 
 The Bibliography which is now presented will afford a descrip- 
 tion of the make-up and order of appearance of the printed collec- 
 tions of the several New England States. 
 
 CONNECTICUT. 
 
 Connecticut Colony. 
 The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, 
 
 Prior to the Union with New Haven Colony, May, 1665 ; transcribed 
 and published (in accordance with a resolution of the General Assembly) 
 under the Supervision of the Secretary of State, with occasional Notes, 
 and an Appendix. By J. Hammond Trumbull. 
 
 [Vol. I.] Hartford, 1850. vii, (1), 604, (1) pp. 7 plates of fac-similes. 
 
 8vo. 
 
 Contents. Records of the General and Particular courts, from April, 
 1638, to December, 1649; Records of the General Court, from February, 
 1650, to May, 1665 ; Record of Wills and Inventories, 1640 to 1649 ; Code 
 of Laws established by the General Court, May, 1650. Appendix: Letter 
 from Sir William Boswell, relating to the encroachments of the Dutch, 
 1641-2; A coppie of y° combination of Southampton w'" Hartford; The 
 agreement [of Connecticut] with Fenwick [relative to jm'isdiction of the 
 river Towns] ; Claims of Massachusetts to the Pequot country ; Letter from 
 Connecticut to Easthampton [relative to witchcraft case of Jos. Garlick 
 and wife]; The settlement with C apt. John CuUick; Abstract of the Will 
 of George Fenwick ; Letter to the Commissioners of the United Colonies, 
 complaining of affronts received from the Narragansetts, 1660 ; Letters 
 respecting Governor Hopkins's Legacy; The Charter of 1662; Petition of 
 Mrs. CuUick to the General Court, in May, 1663 ; List of Documents relat- 
 ing to the Union with New Haven. 
 
 Note. — " Fac-similes of the autographs of members of the first Court of Election 
 under the Constitution of 1 639, and of Magistrates chosen at the Union of the Colonies, 
 in 1665, have been prepared with all possible care and accuracy, from originals. . 
 Fac-similes of portions of the original records, in the hand writing of each of the secre- 
 taries who held office prior to the Union, have also been introduced." 
 
1895.] HISTOEICAL PTXBLICATIONS OP CONNECTICUT. 13 
 
 [Vol. II.] From 1665 to 1678; with the Journal of the Council of 
 War, 1675 to 1678. Hartford, 1852. iv, 610 pp. 
 
 Contents. The Charter of Connecticut ; Records of the General Court 
 from May, 1665, to October, 1669 ; May, 1670, to October, 1677 ; Journal 
 and Correspondence of the Council, 1675-1677. Appendix : Reports of the 
 Committee appointed to hear Uncas's complaints, 1665 ; Tawtanimo's grants 
 to Richard Baldwin, 1659-60 ; Letters from Charles II., to Connecticut, 
 1666 ; Correspondence with Massachusetts, respecting a Synod, 1667 ; List 
 of Freemen in the several towns, October, 1669: Hartford; Windsor; 
 Wethersfield ; Farmington ; Fairfield ; Stratford ; Norwalk ; Saybrook ; 
 New London; Stonington; Norwich; New Haven; Milford; Branford; 
 Guilford; Killingworth ; Stamford; Haddam; Abstracts [etc.] of Docu- 
 ments relating to Rhode Island boundary, 1665-1677; The mortgaged 
 Lands : Major Atherton and his partners, 1659-1683 ; Lands granted by 
 Massachusetts, in the Pequot country, 1670 ; The rumored Indian Plot of 
 1669 ; Proceedings of the Commissioners to establish the Rhode Island 
 boundary, June, 1670; Correspondence with Massachusetts respecting the 
 Boundary line, 1671-1673 ; New London and Lyme Riot, 1670 ; Letter from 
 the King announcing the Declaration of War with the States General, 1672 ; 
 Hostmties with the Dutch, 1673-4; The Laws of 1672-3 (titlepage and 
 preface, with description of the volume printed in 1673) ; Claims of Gov. 
 Andross, 1674-5 ; Laws for the Pequots, 1675 ; Stoning-ton petition, 1675 ; 
 Gov. Andross at Saybrook, 1675 ; The King's letter respecting William 
 Harris and his claim to Pawtuxet lands, 1675; Report of a Committee about 
 Narragansett Lands, June, 1677 ; Letters from Rev. James Fitch, respecting 
 Uncas and the Surrenderers, 1678. 
 
 [Vol. IIL] From May, 1678 to June, 1689 ; with Notes and an Ap- 
 pendix comprising such Documents from the State Archives, and other 
 Soui-ces, as illustrate the History of the Colony during the Administration 
 of Sir Edmund Andres. Hartford, 1859. xiii, (1), 538 pp. 
 
 Contents. Proceedings of the General Court, from May, 1678, to Octo- 
 ber, 1687 ; Interruption of Charter Government, by Sir Edmund Andros ; 
 Records of the JSIay court, 1689 ; June com-t, 1689. Appendix. 
 
 Note. — The Appendix comprises one hundred and forty-two items arranged chro- 
 nologically from 1678 to 1689. The chief documents there printed are Heads of inquiry 
 to bee sent to the Governor of Conecticutt, with answers thereto, 1680; Articles of 
 misdemeanor against Connecticut, by Edward Randolph, 1685, with Order in Council; 
 Extracts from " Will and Doom, or the Miseries of Connecticut," by Gershom Bulkeley ; 
 Laws enacted by Governor Andros and his Council, 1687; Extracts from the Records 
 of the Commissioners of the United Colonies. 
 
 [Vol. IV.] From August, 1689, to May, 1706 ; transcribed and edited 
 by Charles J. Hoadlt. Hartford, 1868. vi, 574 pp. 
 
 Note. — " The following pages contain the records [of the General Court] from 
 August, 1689, to the close of the May session, 1706, being the remainder from page 204 
 
14 THE COLONIAi SOCIETY OP MASSACHUSETTS. [ApkiL, 
 
 of the third manuscript volume of Records of the Colony of Connecticut. . . . The 
 Council Journal from May 30th, 1696, to May, 1698, ... has been included in this vol- 
 ume. . . . Other matters of interest in tliis volume are the papers relative to the visit 
 of Col. Fletcher to Hartford, in October, 1693, for the purpose of presenting his claims 
 to the command of the Connecticut Militia. . . . The incorporation and settlement of 
 quite a number of new towns, and the division of some towns into villages and dis- 
 tinct ecclesiastical societies, which at a later day became towns, may also be specified. 
 Preface. On page 76 is a note relative to a trial for witchcraft in 1692. This was the 
 last trial in Connecticut for the imaginary crime. 
 
 [Vol. v.] From October, 1706, to October, 1716, with the Council 
 Journal from October, 1710, to February, 1717. Hartford, 1870. v, (1), 
 612 pp. 
 
 Note. — " The present publication contains the whole of Volume IV. of the manu- 
 script Records of the Colony of Connecticut, and the first sixty-five pages of Volume V. 
 It contains also, inserted in chronological order between sessions of the General Assem- 
 bly, the Records of the Governor and Council from October 30th, 1710, to February I9th, 
 1716-17." Includes measures adopted for raising troops for the Expedition against 
 Canada, Boundary transactions, acts regarding the Currency, Bills of Credit, etc. 
 
 [Vol. VI.] From May, 1717, to October, 1725, with the Council 
 Journal from May, 1717, to April, 1726. Hartford, 1872. iv, 602 pp. 
 
 Note. — " This volume . . . continues the publication of the fifth volume of the manu- 
 script Records of the Colony of Connecticut, from page 66 to 514, inclusive, embracing 
 the period between May, 1717, and the close of the October session of the General 
 Assembly in 1725. It contains also the record of the acts of the Governor and Council 
 from May, 1717, to April, 1726. Preface. 
 
 [Vol. VII.] From May, 1726, to May, 1735, inclusive. Hartford, 
 1873. iv, 610 pp. Fac-simile of " Three shillings bill" issued by New 
 London Societies united for trade and commerce, 1732. 
 
 Note. — This volume contains the remainder of Volume V. of the manuscript 
 Records of the Colonij of Connecticut, from page 515, covering period from May, 1726, to 
 the end of May session, 1730; the first 223 pages of Volume VI., continuing the records 
 to the end of May session, 1735; and the Journal of the Governor and Council from 
 May, 1726, to February, 1727-8. The Appendix contains Order of the King in Council, 
 npon the appeal of John Winthrop against Thomas Lechmere, annulling the law of 
 Connecticut entitled " An Act for the settlement of Intestate Estates." Queries relat- 
 ing to the Colony of Connecticut, from the Board of Trade and Plantations, with the 
 answers thereto, 1729-1730. 
 
 [Vol. VIII.] From October, 1735, to October, 1743, inclusive. 
 Hartford, 1874. (4), 604 pp. 
 
 Note. — "This publication contains from page 224 of Volume VI. of the manuscript 
 Records of the Colony of Connecticut. . . . The Journal of the Governor and Council for 
 the years embraced in this volume is not known to be extant." Prefatory Note. 
 
1895.] HISTOBICAL PUBLICATIONS OF CONNECTICUT. 15 
 
 [Vol. IX.] May, 1744, to November, 1750, inclusive. Hartford, 
 
 1876. (4), 621 pp. 
 
 Note. — "This volume contains the remainder of Volume VII. of the manuscript 
 Records of the Colony of Connecticut from page 222, together with the first fifty-one 
 pages of Volume VIII., and covers the period from May, 1744, to the death of Governor 
 Law and the election of Governor Wolcott, in November, 1750." The Appendix con- 
 tains "Proceedings of the Privy Council on the appeals of Samuel Clark against 
 Thomas Tousey and others, touching the Law of Intestate Estates, 1737-45; Queries 
 from the Board of Trade to the Governor and Company of Connecticut, with answers 
 thereto, 1784-9." 
 
 [Vol. X.] May, 1751, to February, 1757, inclusive. Hartford, 
 
 1877. (4), 652 pp. 
 
 Note. — "The following pages complete the publication of the eighth manuscript 
 volume of the Records of the Colony of Connecticut, and contain the acts of twenty-one 
 sessions of the General Assembly." The Journals of the Governor and Council, Com- 
 mittees of War, and of the General Assembly are wanting for 1751-1757. The Appen- 
 dix contains the Census of 1756 ; Queries from the Board of Trade to the Governor and 
 Company of Connecticut, with the answers thereto, 1755-6. 
 
 [Vol. XI.] May, 1757, to March, 1762, inclusive. Hartford, 
 
 1880. (4), 662 pp. 
 
 Note. — This and the preceding volume contain acts illustrating the participation of 
 Connecticut in raising troops for the French and Indian Wars, giving appointments of 
 officers, appropriations, etc. The Journals of the Governor and Council, Committees of 
 War, and of the General Assembly are wanting. The Appendix contains Answers 
 to queries from the Board of Trade, 1761-2. 
 
 [Vol. XII.] May, 1762, to October, 1767, inclusive. Hartford, 
 
 1881. (4), 698 pp. 
 
 UoTE. — The Journals of the Governor and Council, and of the General Assembly, 
 are wanting. The Proceedings relative to the Stamp Act are recorded in this volume. 
 The Appendix consists of a reprint of the Tract entitled Reasons why the British Colo- 
 nies, in America, should not be charged with Internal Taxes, by Authority of Parlia- 
 ment; Humbly offered, for Consideration, In Behalf of the Colony of Connecticut. 
 New Haven : Printed by B. Mecom, M,DCC,LXIV. 
 
 [Vol. XIII.] May, 1768, to May, 1772, inclusive. Hartford, 1885. 
 (4), 689 pp. Folded plate : Chart of Say brook Bar, by Abner Parker, 
 1771. 
 
 Ifo^j, — "This book contains the concluding part of Volume X. of the manuscript 
 Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, from page 312, and the first 147 pages of 
 Volume XI. The Council Journal before May, 1770, is not known to be extant." The 
 portion from May, 1770, to 1772, is here printed. The Journals of the General Assem- 
 bly are wanting. 
 
 [Vol. XIV.] October, 1772, to April, 1775, inclusive. Hartford, 
 1887. 4, 534 pp. 
 
 Note. — "The record of eight sessions of the General Assembly is in this book." 
 The Journals of the General Assembly are wanting for this period. The Journal of the 
 Governor and Council fails after October, 1773. 
 
16 THE COLONIAI; SOCIETY OP MASSACHUSETTS. [April, 
 
 The Appendix contains reprints of the following tracts : — 
 
 The Susquehannah Case [1774]; Report of the Commissioners appointed hy the 
 General Assembly of this Colony, to treat with the Proprietaries of Pennsylvania, Ee- 
 specting the Boundaries of this Colony and that Province. Norwich : Printed by Green 
 & Spooner, 1774; An Account of the Number of inhabitants in the Colony of Con- 
 necticut, January 1, 1774; together with an Account of the Number of Inhabitants, 
 taken January 1, 1756. Hartford: Printed by Ebenezer Watson, M,DCC,LXXIV. ; 
 Heads of Inquiry relative to the Present State and Condition of His Majesty's Colony 
 of Connecticut, Signified by His Majesty's Secretary of State, in his Letter of 
 the 5th July, 1773; With the Answers thereto. NewLondon: Printed by T. Green, 
 M,DCC,LXXV. 
 
 [Vol. XV.] May, 1775, to June, 1776, inclusive, with the Journal 
 of the Council of Safety from June 7, 1775, to October 2, 1776, and an 
 Appendix containing some Council Proceedings 1663-1710. Hartford, 
 1890. iv, 617 pp. 
 
 Note. — The appointments of Revolutionary officers are recorded in this volume, 
 with the measures adopted for raising troops, and other acts in connection with the 
 Revolutionary officers. 
 
 State of Connecticut. 
 The Public Records of the State of Connecticut, 
 
 [Vol. I.] From October, 1776, to February, 1778, inclusive, with 
 the Journal of the Council of Safety from October 11, 1776, to May 
 6, 1778, inclusive, and an Appendix. Published in accordance with a 
 Resolution of the General Assembly, by Charles J. Hoadly, LL.D. 
 Hartford, 1894. iv, 653 pp. 
 
 Note. — Contains " about one half of the first manuscript volume of the Records of 
 the State of Connecticut, and all of the first volume of the Journal of the Council 
 of Safety which was not printed in the fifteenth volume of Colonial Records of 
 Connecticut." Preface, 
 
 The Appendix comprises Journal of the Convention held at Providence, December 
 25, 1776, to January 3, 1777, of delegates from New England States to form a union for 
 purposes of military defence, to regulate and improve the currency, to establish a scale 
 of prices for commodities to prevent the exaction of exorbitant charges for necessities 
 to Soldiers; Journal of Springfield Convention, July, 1777, of "Committees from the 
 States of New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New 
 York, for the purpose of holding a conference respecting the state of the paper currency 
 of the said governments," etc. ; " Journal of the Commissioners of New Hampshire, 
 Rhode Island and Providence plantations, and Connecticut at New Haven, on the 1 5th 
 of January and continued by adjournment until the 20th day of the same month, 1778, 
 when being joyned by the Commissioners of Massachusetts Bay, New York, and New 
 Jersey " they proceeded to consider measures for regulating the price of labor, manu- 
 factures, internal produce, and commodities imported from foreign parts, also to regu- 
 late the charges of innholders. 
 
1895.] HISTORICAL PUBLICATIONS OP CONNECTICUT. 17 
 
 [Vol. II.] From May, 1778, to April, 1780, inclusive, with the 
 Journal of the Council of Safety from May 18, 1778, to April 23, 1780, 
 and an Appendix. Hartford, 1895. iv, 607 pp. 8vo. 
 
 Note. — " Comprises the record of eight sessions of the General Assembly of Con- 
 necticut between May, 1778, and May, 1780, and contains the remaining hitherto 
 unprinted portion of Volume one of the manuscript Records of the State of Connecticut, 
 with the April Session of 1780 from Volume two. The records of the Council of Safety 
 are also included, arranged in the same manner as in the former printed volume. The 
 record of the ordinary Council is not known to exist. From May, 1779, the Journals of 
 the Lower House of the Assembly are in our archives. The Journals of the Upper 
 House are not preserved." Preface. 
 
 The Appendix contains Depositions in regard to the Invasion of New Haven, Fair- 
 field, and Norwalk, in July, 1779 ; Proceedings of the Hartford Convention of October, 
 1779, of "Commissioners of the several States of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, 
 Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, and New York " to regulate the 
 currency and the prices of commodities, etc. ; Proceedings of the Philadelphia Conven- 
 tion, January, 1780, of " Commissioners from the States of New Hampshire, Massa- 
 chusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, 
 Delaware, and Maryland, appointed for the purpose of considering the expediency of 
 limiting prices." 
 
 New Haven Colony. 
 
 Records of the Colooy and Plantation of Ne^w Haven, from 1638 
 to 1649. Transcribed and edited in accordance with a Resolution of 
 the General Assemblj' of Connecticut, with occasional Notes and an 
 Appendix by Chaeles J. Hoadly. 
 
 [Vol. I.] Hartford, 1857. vii, (1),547 pp. 8vo. 
 
 Contents. Indian deeds of the Plantation of Xew Haven ; The names 
 of all the Freemen of the Courte of Newhaven; New Haven Colony 
 Records. Appendix: Correspondence of Governor Eaton and of Deputy 
 Governor Goodyear with Governor Stuyvesant and (one letter) Governor 
 Winthrop concerning Dutch claims to New Haven and Connecticut. 
 
 Note. — " At their first settlement, though within the limits of the old Connecticut 
 Patent, the plantations of New Haven, Guilford, and Milford, intended to be, if possible, 
 separate and distinct governments, but finding themselves singly too weak, early in the 
 spring of the year 1643, they confederated with New Haven, which had already by the 
 purchase and settlement of Stamford, Yennycook or Southold, and Totoket or Bran- 
 ford, become the most considerable in size and influence, and thus was formed the Juris- 
 diction of New Haven. The present volume contains the records of the Colony of New 
 Haven while it remained distinct, the beginning of the records of the Jurisdiction, and 
 the records of the Town or Plantation up to the year 16.50, From April, 1644, to May, 
 16.53, the records of the Jurisdiction are lost, save that in this volume we have the pro- 
 ceedings of a Court of Magistrates, June 14th, 1646, and a Court of Election October 
 27th, 1646." Introduction. 
 
18 THE COLONIAL SOCIETY OP MASSACHUSETTS. [Apkil, 
 
 Records of the Colony or Jurisdiction of New Haven, from May, 
 1653, to the Union, together with the New Haven Code of 1656. 
 Transcribed and edited in accordance with a Resolution of the Gen- 
 eral Assembly pf Connecticut by Charles J. Hoadly. 
 [Vol. II.] Hartford, 1858. iv, 626 pp. 
 
 I^^OTE. — "The present volume comprises "all the Kecords of the Jurisdiction of New 
 Hayen now known to exist, except the few entries in the ' Records of the Colony and 
 Plantation of New Haven,' printed in 1857. . . . The New Haven laws are here given 
 from the original printed copy belonging to the American Antiquarian Society." The 
 book is of great rarity and perhaps unique. The title is " New Haven's Settling in 
 New England. — And some Lawes for Government. Published for the use of that 
 Colony, . . . London: Printed by M. S. for Livewell Chapman, 1656." 
 
 MAINE. 
 
 Documentary History of the State of Maine. 
 
 Edited by WiLLiAii Willis. 
 
 Vol. I. Containing a History of the Discovery of Maine. By J. G. 
 
 Kohl. With an Appendix on the Voyages of the Cabots. By M. 
 
 D'AvEZAC, of Paris. Published by the Maine Historical Society, aided 
 
 by Appropriations from the State. Portland, 1869. (2), viii, (2), 10 — 
 
 535 pp. 8vo. 
 
 Contents. A history of the discovery of the East Coast of North Amer- 
 ica, particularly the Coast of Maine, from the Northmen in 990 to the 
 Charter of Gilbert in 1578. By J. G. Kohl. Illustrated by Copies of the 
 earliest Maps and Charts : Physical features of the Gulf and Coast of 
 Maine; Discoveries of the Northmen in North-eastern America during the 
 Middle Ages; Vinland Voj'ages of the Zeni; Sea chart of the Zeni; Charts 
 of the Northmen : Map of the North Atlantic Ocean, drawn by Sigardus 
 Stephauius, 1.570; Map by Gudbrandus Torlacius, 1606; — English trading 
 expeditions from Bristol and other English ports, toward the Northwest, 
 principally to Iceland, during the 11th and 15th centuries : John of Kolno; 
 Expeditions of Columbus prior to 1492 ; Voyage of John and Sebastian 
 Cabot in 1497 ; Voyage of Sebastian Cabot in 1498 ; Map of Behaim, 1492 ; 
 Map of Juan de la Cosa, 1500 ; Chart of the new world, by Johann Ruysch, 
 1508 ; The globe of Schoner, 1520 ; Expeditions of Caspar and Miguel de 
 Cortereal to the north-eastern coast of America, in 1500-1503 ; Portuguese 
 chart of the Coasts of Newfoundland, Labrador, and Greenland, about 1504; 
 Pedro Reinel's chart of Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and Greenland, about 
 1505; Portuguese chart of Florida, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, Labrador, 
 and Greenland, made about 1520 ; — English voyages to Newfoundland in 
 the beginning of the 16th century; Portuguese fishermen on Newfoundland 
 Banks ; Spanish voyages to Newfoundland, Juan Dornelos, Juan de Agra- 
 monte, and Sebastian Cabot, 1500, 1511, 1515; French voyages after Cor- 
 
1895.] mSTOKICAL PUBLICATIONS OP MAINE. 19 
 
 tereal; English voyage to the North-west, said to have been undertaken 
 under the command of Sebastian Cabot and Sir Thomas Pert, in 1517 ■ 
 Charts of the first French discoveries in " Terre Neuve : " Map of New 
 France, by Jacome di Gastaldi, 1550 ; " Terra Nueva," by Girolamo Rus- 
 ceUi, 1561; Spanish expeditions along the east coast of Florida from 
 Columbus to Ayllon, 1492-1520; Expeditions to the East coast of North 
 America under the French, by Giovanni da Verrazano in 1524; Expedition 
 of Estevan Gomez along the East coast of North America in 1525 ; Expedi- 
 tion of two English ships, the Mary of Guilford and the Samson, under the 
 command of John Rut, 1527 ; Charts from Verrazano : Chart by IMichael Lok, 
 1582 ; Map of America, by Baptista Agnese, 1536 ; On four maps of North 
 America, by different authors between 1530 and 1544 : Ptolemy, 1530 ; Rus- 
 celli's map, 1544 ; Map by Diego Homem, 1540 ; North America from a 
 Portolano, 1536 ; Charts to Gomez : Chart by Diego Ribero in 1529 ; Chart 
 of the East coast of North America, by Alonzo de Chaves, in 1536, and 
 Oviedo's Description of the coast in 1537 ; French expeditions to Canada in 
 1534-1543, and Hore's voyage, 1536 ; First voyage of Jacques Cartier in 
 1534 ; Second voyage, 1535 ; The voyage of Master Hore and other Eng- 
 lishmen to Cape Breton and Newfoundland in 1536 ; Expeditions of Jean 
 Fran9ois de La Roque de Eoberval, and Jacques Cartier to Canada in 1540 
 and 1543 ; Chart of Newfoundland and the Gulf of St. Lawrence, by Caspar 
 Viegas, 1534; Chart of Canada and the east coast of the U. S. from a map 
 of the world in 1543 ; Chart of Nicholas A'allard de Dieppe, 1543 ; On the 
 engraved map of the world said to have been made by Sebastian Cabot 
 in 1544, and the voyage said to have been made by John and Sebastian 
 Cabot, in 1494; Diego Plomem's chart, 1558; Mercator's map, 1569; Expe- 
 dition of Lucas Yasquez de Ayllon to the country Chicora (Carolina), in 
 1526 ; The Expeditions of Ferdinando de Soto, Diego Maldonado, and 
 Gomez Arias, 1538-1.543; The Expeditions under Kibault and Laudonniere 
 to Florida, and the Spanish and English undertakings connected with them, 
 in 1.562-1574 ; Villegagnon's expedition, 1555; Thevet's expedition, 1556; 
 Ribault's first voyage to the East coast of Florida, Georgia, and South Caro- 
 lina, in 1562; The fate of the French settlement at Port Royal, 1562-1503; 
 Laudonni^re's expedition, 1564; Voyage of Capt. John Hawkins along the 
 coast of North America, from Florida to Newfoundland, in 1565 ; Third 
 Expedition of the French to Florida under command of Jean Ribault, in 
 1565 ; Expeditions of Don Pedro INIenendez de Aviles on the coast of Flor- 
 ida, in 1565-1567; Expedition of Dominique de Gourgues to Florida, in 
 1567-68 ; A Spanish survey of the East coast of Florida, in 1573, by Pedro 
 Marquez. 
 
 Appendix : A Letter on the Voyages of John and Sebastian Cabot, by 
 M. D'Avezac of Paris. Index. 
 
 Vol. II. Containing a Discourse on Western Planting, written in the 
 Year 1584, by Richard Hakluyt. AVith a Preface and an Introduction 
 by Leonard Woods, LL.D. Edited, with Notes in the Appendix, by 
 Charles Deane. Published by the Maine Historical Society, aided by 
 
20 THE COLONIAIi SOCIETY OP MASSACHUSETTS. [Apkil, 
 
 Appropriations from the State. Cambridge, 1877. Ixi, (3), 253 pp. 
 Plates : Fac-simile of the title-page of the Discourse from the MS. ; 4 
 folded Plates of fac-similes : of Heads of Chapters found in the Public 
 Record office; of first Page of Letter of Hakluyt to Walsingham, 
 Apr. 7, 1585. 
 
 Contents. Note of the Standing Committee ; Editorial note, by Charles 
 Deane ; Preface, by Leonard "Woods [giving an account of the discovery of 
 the manuscript of the Discourse and its identification with the narrative 
 presented to Queen Elizabeth as " Mr. Rawley's Voyage " and with the title 
 " Sir Walter Raleigh's Voyage to the West Indies " to Walsingham in 158.5] ; 
 A particuler discourse concerning the greate neoessitie and manifolde com- 
 odyties that are like to growe to this Realme of Englande by the AVesterne 
 discoueries lately attempted, written in the yere 15S4, by Richarde Hackluyt 
 of Oxforde, at the requeste and direction of the righte worsliipf ull Mr Walter 
 Rayhly, nowe Knight, before the comynge home of his twoo barkes, and is 
 devided into XXI chapiters, the titles whereof foUowe in the nexte leafe. 
 Appendix: Notes to llakluyt's Discourse : Note on the Title-page; Notes on 
 the " Heads of Chapters ; " Notes on the Text of the Discourse. 
 
 Note. — It is thought that Hakluyt made three and possibly four copies of his " Dis- 
 course.'' The first copy was giren to Queen Elizabeth, the second was written for Secre- 
 tary Walsingham, the third for one whom he calls his " Wonship" (possibly Sir Pliilip 
 Sidney), and a fourth the original of the one here printed, and wliifh is preserved in 
 the collection of Sir Thomas Phillips at Clieltenham. The original work was written 
 in 1584, and the first copies contained only twenty chapters, as is shown by the " Heads 
 of Cliapters," found in the Public Kecord office, one copy of which bore the title, " Sir 
 Walter Raleigh's Voyage to the West Indies," and another " Mr. Rawley's Voyage." 
 These are not known to be extant. The copy here reprinted contains an additional 
 chapter and a different title-page as given above, and was probably published in 1585. 
 
 Vol. III. Containing the Trelawny Papers. Edited, and illustrated 
 with Historical Notes and an Appendix, by James Phinney Baxter, A.M. 
 Published by the Maine Historical Society, aided by Appropriations from 
 the State. Portland, 1884. xxxi, (1), 520 pp. Illustrated. Folded 
 maps and plans. Fac-similes. 
 
 Contents. Memoir of Robert Trelawny ; The Trelawny pedigrees 
 Fac-similes of autographs ; the Trelawny Papers : Patent to Robert Tre- 
 lawny and others, Deo. 1, 1631 ; Patent to Thomas Commack, Nov. 1, 1631 
 Power of attorney to John AVinter and Thomas Pomeroy, -Ian. 18, 1631 
 Correspondence, July 23, 1632 — Apr. 4, 1809; Appendix: Will of Robert 
 Trelawny, Senior, June 30, 1627 ; Robert Trelawny's first will, Oct. 26, 16i0 
 Robert Trelawny's last will, August 27, 1643 ; Sir Jonathan Trelawny 
 The Song of the Western men ; John Winter to Robert Trelawny, April 
 1631, May 5, 1634 ; John Winter's seal ; Charges on Newfoundland fish 
 Pedigree of Sir Ferdinando Gorges ; The Great Seal of the Council for New 
 England ; Account of Jordan and Ridgeway ; the Will of Robert Jordan 
 Index. 
 
1895.] HISTORICAIi PUBLICATIONS OP MAINE. 21 
 
 Note. — The Trelawny patent covered Richmond's Island and the whole of Cape 
 Elizabeth. John Winter, acting for Trelawny, took possession of the grant in 1632 and 
 built a house in 1633 upon Richmond's Island. Winter dispossessed Cleeve, who had 
 settled upon the main land opposite Richmond's Island, and later laid claim under the 
 Trelawny patent to Cleeve's grant upon the Casco (including Portland), but was unsuc- 
 cessful in his design. The Trelawny Papers include the records of the dispute with 
 Cleeve. The Papers are largely concerned with Winter's reports of his transactions at 
 the plantation on Richmond's Island. The Trelawny interest in the property, throuo-h 
 legal manipulations, was finally annihilated, and the Winter heirs came into complete 
 possession. 
 
 Vol. IV. Containing the Baxter Manuscripts. Edited by James 
 Phinney Baxter, A.M. Published by the Maine Historical Society, 
 aided by Appropriations from the State. Portland, 1889. xvi, 506 pp. 
 
 Note. — "The documents in this volume have been gathered by me during many 
 years, from the archives of Massachusetts, the oiJice of the Public Records in London, 
 and the Bureau of Marine and Colonies in Paris.'' — Editor. Comprises papers on Maine 
 history covering the period from 1629 to Oct. 7, 1689, principally illustrating the disputed 
 jurisdiction of the Province by Massachusetts and Gorges. Their general character is 
 indicated by the following list of the more important or extensive papers : Grant to 
 Thomas Lewis and Rich. Bonython, of land at Sagadahoc, Feb. 28, 1629; Documents 
 on Massacliusetts jurisdiction over Kittery, 1651-52; List of freemen sworn at York, 
 
 1652 ; Commission appointed to settle the civil government at Wells and Cape Porpoise, 
 
 1653 ; Submission of People of Wells, Saco, aud Cape Porpoise to Massachusetts, 1653 ; 
 A Short view of Ann Mason's touching her lands in New England, 1653 ; Depositions 
 relative to case of Hugh Gunnison, at Kittery ; Dispute between Edward Godfrey and 
 the town of York, 1654-55; Petition of York, Kittery, Wells, Saco, and Cape Porpoise 
 to Oliver Cromwell, 1656 ; Submission of Black Point, Blue Point, Spurwinke, and Casco 
 Bay to Massachusetts jurisdiction, 1658; Petition of Falmouth, May 30, 1660; Peti- 
 tion of George Cleeve concerning his claims to land at Cape Porpoise, Saco, Wells, and 
 Falmouth; Request of the inhabitants of Scarborough, 1661; Petition of Wells con- 
 cerning Rev. Seth Fletcher, 1661 ; George Cleeve vs. Robert Jordan ; Documents relative 
 to Gorges's claims to the Province of Maine, 1664-65; Petition of inhabitants of Cape 
 Porpus, Apr. 28, 1668; Petition of Wells, 1668; Petition of Falmouth, 1668; Repre- 
 sentation of S' Lewis Kirk concerning Accadie, 1667 ; The title of the English to 
 Acadia, or Nova Scotia, and the comodities it yields, 1667 ; A resume'; an abstract of 
 accounts of the title to lands in Nova Scotia ; Order of commissioners forbidding the 
 exercise of jurisdiction over the Province of Maine by Massachusetts or Gorges, with 
 other documents on the subject, 1665 ; Report of His Majestie's commissioners upon 
 the colonies of Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Plymouth, Massachusetts, New Hamp- 
 shire, Maine, 1665; Claims of John Littlebury, 1669; Petition of Kittery, 1673; Re- 
 turne of the coihitte apointed by the Genii Court, to consider of the matter p=seuted 
 relating to the Province of Mayne, 1678; A Declaration of the Inhabitants of the 
 Province of Main, 1679, in regard to Gorges's claim ; Indenture between Tho= Danforth 
 and Captain Edward Tyng and others, 1 684, in regard to holders under Gorges's grants ; 
 Me'moire sur I'e'tat de la situation et la disposition en laiiuelle sont les habitans du 
 pays de I'Arcadie; Papers relative to operations at Falmouth, 1689. 
 
22 THE COLONIAL SOCrETY OP MASSACHUSETTS. [April, 
 
 MASSACHUSETTS. 
 
 Massachusetts Bat Colont. 
 
 Heoordg of the Governor and Company of Massachusetts Bay in 
 New England. 
 
 Printed by order of the Legislature. Edited by Nathaniel B. Shuet- 
 
 LEFF, M.D. 
 
 Vol. I. 1628-1641. Boston, 1853. xv, 479 pp. 4to. 
 
 Contents. The Charter of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay in New 
 England, 1628-9 ; The Keoords of the Governor and Company of the Mas- 
 sachusetts Bay in New England, 1628-1630 (prior to arrival in America) ; 
 The Records of the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, 
 1630-1641 ; Miscellaneous Records : Coppies of y Oathes appertaininge 
 to y° New England Companye; John Pratt's Answer to the Court; Court 
 Order, April 30, 1629, May 21, 1629 ; Freemen of the Colony of the Mas- 
 sachusetts Bay in New England, 1031-1641. Appendix: Letters from the 
 Governor and Company of Massachusetts Bay in New England: Matthew 
 Cradock, Feb. 16, 1628-9 ; First Letter of Instructions from the Governor 
 and Company, April 17, 1629 ; Second Letter of Instructions, May 28, 1629 ; 
 Letter from the Governor and Company to the Ministers, Oct. 16, 1629 ; 
 Letter to Gov. Endecott, Oct. 16, 1629. General Index; Index of Freemen, 
 1631-1841. 
 
 Note. — There were two editions of this volume issued without any change in the 
 title-pages. The second edition contained the following changes : to include the new 
 material supplied by the Barlow manuscript ; ten pages, numbered 37 a to 37 J, were in- 
 serted, and on page 346 the page was filled out with new matter. 
 
 Vol. II. 1642-1649. Boston, 1853. vii, 344 pp. 
 
 Contents. The Records of the Colony of the jMassachusetts Bay, 1642- 
 1649 ; Miscellaneous Records : Freemen of the Colony of the Massachusetts 
 Bay, 1642-1649. General Index ; Index of Freemen, ] 642-1649. 
 
 Note. — There were two editions of this volume, as well as of the first volume, issued 
 without any change in the titlepage of the second. " In Volume II. (which begins, 
 in the first edition, with page 3) two whole pages were inserted, — numbers 1 and 2, and 
 tlie first half of page 3. The former page 3 was cancelled, the two bottom lines . . . being 
 carried over to page 4, and the spaces on page 4 being readjusted, so that page 4 ends 
 alike in both editions." — W. H. Whitmore. 
 
 Vol. III. 1644-1657. Boston, 1854. xiii,'(3), 510 pp. 
 
 Contents. The Records of the House of Deputies, 1644-16.57 (in fact 
 the Records of the Colony, as kept by the Clerk of the Deputies). 
 
 Vol. IV., Part I. 1650-1660. Boston, 1854. v, (3), 518 pp. 
 
 Contents. Records of the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay, May, 16.50- 
 Dec. 19, 1660; Miscellaneous Records: Freemen of the Colony, 1650-1660; 
 General Index; Index of Freemen, 1650-1660. 
 
1895.] HISTORICAL PUBLICATIONS OI' MASSACHUSETTS. 23 
 
 Vol. IV., Part II. 1661-1674. Boston, 1854. v, (3), 647 pp. 
 
 Contents. Records of tlie Colony of the Massachusetts Bay, May 23, 
 1661, to March, 1673-4 ; Miscellaneous Records : Freemen of the Colony, 
 1661-1674 ; General Index ; Index of Freemen, 1661-1674. 
 
 Vol. V. 1674-1686. Boston, 1854. v, (3), 615 pp. 
 
 Contents. Records of the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay, May 27, 1674- 
 May, 1686 ; Miscellaneous Records : Grant to William Blathwayt, May 19, 
 1680 ; Deputation of William Blathwayt to Edward Randolph ; Certificate 
 of appointment of William Dyre, Surveyor-General of Customs ; Power of 
 Attorney from John Awassamoag, 1684; Deed from John Awassamoag 
 and others, Jan. 21, 1GS4-5; Deed from Thomas Awassamoag to Edward 
 Rawson, April 21, 1685 ; Freemen of the Colony, 1674-1686 ; General Index ; 
 Index of Freemen, 1674-1686. 
 
 Plymouth Colont. 
 Records of the Colony of Nbtw Plymouth in New England. 
 
 Printed by order of the Legislature of the Commonwealth of Massa- 
 chusetts. Edited by Nathaniel B. Shdrtleff, M.D. 
 
 Vol. I. Court Orders : 1633-1640. Boston, 1855. xii, (4), 190 pp. 4to. 
 Contents. The Names of the Freemen, 1633 ; Acts and Passages of Court, 
 and Grants of Land, from y= year 1632 until the year 1640. 
 Vol. n. Court Orders : 1641-1651. Boston, 1854. v, (3), 202 pp. 
 Vol. IIL Court Orders: 1651-1661. Boston, 1855. v, (3), 250 pp. 
 
 Note. — "The third volume of the Court Orders of the Colony of Kew Plymouth is 
 contained in a manuscript of about three hundred and forty pages, all in the handwriting 
 of Mr. Nathaniel Morton, Secretary of the Colony. It comprises the records of the lat- 
 ter part of the administration of Governor William Bradford, and the first part of that 
 of Governor Thomas Prence." 
 
 Vol. IV. Court Orders: 1661-1668. Boston, 1855. v, (3), 218 pp. 
 
 Note. -"The manuscript of the fourth volume of Court Orders of the Colony of 
 New Plymouth ... is entirely in the well-known chirography of Mr. Nathaniel Morton. 
 . . . It "embraces a period of seven years, during the whole of which time Mr. Thomas 
 Prence was Governor of the Colony." 
 
 Vol. V. Court Orders: 1668-1678. Boston, 1856. v, (3), 315 pp. 
 
 NoTE.-Conto/«s the Acts of the General Court and the Court of Assistants with 
 grants of land, and other entries of a more miscellaneous character, among which wiU 
 he found a list of Freemen on May 29, 1670. Gov. Prince's administration ended 
 March, 1673 ; during the remainder of the period covered by this volume Josiah Wmslow 
 was Governor. Includes record of proceedings in regard to King Phihp's War. 
 
 Vol. VL Court Orders: 1678-1691. Boston, 1856. v, (3), 300pp. 
 
 Note —During the period covered by this volume, the Governors of the Colony were 
 Josiah Winslow, who died in office, Dec. 18, 1680, and Thomas Hinckley, who served in 
 that capacity until the Union with Massachusetts, in 1692, with the exception of the 
 period of the Andros usurpation. 
 
24 THE COLONIAL SOCLETY OF MASSACHUSETTS. [April, 
 
 Vol. VII. Judicial Acts : 1636-1692. Boston, 1857. v, (3), 339 pp. 
 
 Note. — "This volume comprises the Eecord of the Judicial Acts of the General 
 Court and Court of Assistants of the Colony of New Plymouth. . . . The first Act 
 recorded hears date the third of January, 1636-7, and the last the fifth of April, 1692, 
 consequently extending until the union of the Massachusetts and Plymouth colonies." 
 Prior to 1637, the acts of this character were incorporated in the records of Court 
 Orders. 
 
 Vol. VIII. Miscellaneous Records: 1633-1689. Boston, 1857. 
 V, (3), 283 pp. 
 
 Contents. Records of Births, Marriages, Deaths, and Burials in the sev- 
 eral towns of the Colony of New Plymouth, as they were returned by the 
 respective town clerks, 1647-1087 (Yarmouth, Plymouth, Sandwich, East- 
 ham, Scituate, Taunton, Barnstable, Swansey, Rehoboth, Marshfield) ; 
 Treasury Accounts, 1658-1680 ; Lists of the Names of Freemen and others 
 taken at various times ; Freemen of Plymouth, Duibury, Scituate, Sand- 
 wich, Taunton, Yarmouth, Barnstable, Marshfield, Rehoboth, Nawsett; 
 Names of such as have taken the Oath of Fidelitie, 1657, of Marshfield, 
 Rehoboth, Barnstable, Sandwich, Scituate, Plymouth, Duxbury, Sandwich, 
 Eastham, Bridgewater, Cohannet, Yarmouth, Taunton ; 1643, The Names 
 of all the Males that are able to bear armes, Plymouth, Duxbury, Scituate, 
 Sandwich, Barnstable, Yarmouth, Taunton ; List of Freemen in the different 
 towns, taken about 1658; List of Freemen, taken 1683-4; List of Freemen 
 received and admitted, June, 1689. 
 
 Index to Bu'ths, Marriages, Deaths, and Burials ; Index to Towns, etc. ; 
 Index to Treasury Accounts, and Names of Freemen. 
 
 Vol. IX. Edited by David Pulsifee. Acts of the Commissioners 
 of the United Colonies of New England. Vol. I., 1643-1651. Boston, 
 1859. xvi, (8), 237 pp. Facsimiles. 
 
 Contents. Agreement respecting the bounds betwixt Plymouth and 
 Massachusetts, 1040, Articles of Confederation Betweene the Plantaoons 
 vnder the Goument of the Massachusetts the Plantaoons vnder the Gou- 
 ment of New Plymouth, the Plantacons under the Goument of Connectacutt 
 and the Goument of New Haven, 1643 ; Acts of the Commissioners, 1643- 
 1651 ; The Petition of Humphrey Johnson, and Answer of the Court thereto, 
 1684. 
 
 Vol. X. Acts of the Commissioners of the United Colonies of New 
 England. Vol. II., 1653-1679. Boston, 1859. viii, (4), 492 pp. 
 Facsimiles. 
 
 Note. — The Appendix contains: "Records of several meetings of the Commission- 
 ers, which are omitted from the Plymouth copy; namely, the informal meeting at 
 Plymouth, September, 1652; the special meeting at Hartford, August, 1673; meetings 
 at Hartford, September, 1678; at Boston, August, 1679; and at Hartford, September, 
 1684," furnished by .1. Hammond Trumbull, from the Connecticut Archives ; Documents, 
 and Extracts from the Council Records of the Massachusetts Colony, 1644-1650. 
 
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 Vol. XI. Laws, 1623-1682. Boston, 1861. xi, (1), 274 pp 
 Facsimiles in the text. 
 
 Vol. XII. Deeds, etc. Vol. I., 1620-1651. Book of Indian Rec- 
 ords for their Lands. Boston, 1861. vii, (1), 264 pp. Facsimiles. 
 
 Note. — Consists of reprint of the manuscript volume entitled "Plimouth's Great 
 Book of Deeds of Lands enrolled from An° 1627 to An» 1651." 
 
 NEW HAMPSHIRE. 
 
 Provincial Papers. Documents and Records relating to the Prov- 
 ince of New-Hampshire, from the earliest period of its Settlement, 
 1623-1686. 
 
 Published by authority of the Legislature of New Hampshire. Com- 
 piled and edited by Nathaniel Bouton, D. D. 
 
 Vol. I. Concord, 1867. x, (2), 629 pp. 8vo. 
 
 Contents. The Province of New-Hampshire from 1623 to 1686, prelimi- 
 nary Notices by the Editor ; Ancient Grants and other Documents relating to 
 the Province, prepared by Samuel D. Bell ; Mason's will ; Dover and Swamp- 
 scot patents; The Wheelwright Deed; Original Province Papers, contained 
 in "Book I. Province Records," 1631-1650; Miscellaneous items relating to 
 New-Hampshire, between 1629 and 1636; Documents and facts relating 
 to Settlements in New-Hampshire, from 1631 to 1641, previous to submission 
 to the Government of Massachusetts : Portsmouth, Dover ; Names of Stew- 
 ards and Servants sent by John Mason into this Province of New- 
 Hampshire ; Exeter, Hampton; Exeter combination, 1639; Indian deeds to 
 Wheelwright and others, 1638; Exeter First Book of Records; Ancient 
 Documents and Records relating to New-Hampshire, subsequent to Massa- 
 chusetts' jurisdiction, from 1641 to 1679 (includes documents on Dover and 
 Swampscot patents ; Hampton petition, 1643 ; Exeter petition, 1643 ; Bloody 
 Point petition, 1644; Dover petitions, 1646, 1652, 1654; Strawberry Bancke 
 petitions, 1651, 1653; Petition from Portsmouth, 1654; Witchcraft in New 
 Hampshire, 1656 ; Quakers) ; Papers relating to the visit of the King's Com- 
 missioners so far as respects New-Hampshire, from Documents relating to 
 the Colonial History of New York ; Same from Massachusetts records (includ- 
 ing petitions from Portsmouth, Dover, Exeter, etc., regarding Massachusetts 
 jurisdiction) ; Portsmouth address concerning the College, 1669 ; Petition of 
 Oyster River for a Minister, 1869; Answer of Massachusetts to Mason's and 
 Gorges's complaints ; Documents relating to Indian troubles at Piscataqua 
 and the Eastern parts, from 1675 to 1678 ; Names of Deputies from towns 
 in New-Hampshire, to the General Court of Massachusetts, from 1641 to 
 1679 ; The Commission constituting a President [John Cutt] and Council 
 for the Province of New Hampshire, 1679 ; Province laws ; Address of the 
 General Court of New-Hampshire to the King, 1680 ; Witchcraft ; Province 
 rate of Hampton, Exeter, Cooheco, Dover Neck, Bloody Point, Portsmouth, 
 
26 THE COLONIAL SOCIETY OF MASSACHUSETTS. [April, 
 
 1680 ; Fast proclamation, 1681 ; Commission of Edward Cranfleld, 1682 ; 
 Instructions to Cranfleld; Province laws under Cranfleld; Cranfield's ad- 
 ministration ; Petition of the Inhabitants of New Hampshire against Robert 
 Mason, IGSo ; Barefoot 's administration; Letters or petitions from John 
 Ilogkins, one of the Sachems of the Penacook Indians ; Hon. Joseph 
 Dudley's administration, as President of his Majesty's territory and dominion 
 in Xew-England. Index. 
 
 Vol. II. 1686 to 1722: being Part I. of papers relating to that 
 Period. Manchester, 1868. vi, 764 pp. 
 
 Contents. Commission and administration of Sir Edmund Andros; 
 Unsettled state of the Province from April 18, 1689, to 1692 ; Proceedings 
 of the people at Hampton, 1689; at Dover, Exeter, Portsmouth; New 
 Hampshire petition, Feb. 20, 1689-90 ; Documents relating to Wars with 
 the Indians, lti«7-1690, including the Massacre at Dover, June, 1689 ; 
 Commission and Instructions to Gov. Samuel Allen, 1692 ; Minutes of 
 Council, under the administration of Lieut.-Gov. John Usher, 1092-1696 ; 
 Custom House returns, 1692 ; Great Island, petition for a Township ; Charter 
 of New Castle; Indian treaty, at Pemaquid, Aug. 11, 169-3; Massacre at 
 Oyster River, 1091; Grant of the town of Kingston, 1694; Records of 
 Council, 1696-1723 ; Association to stand by the Protestant Succession ; 
 Commission of Lt.-Gov. Wm. Partridge ; Submission of the Eastern Indi- 
 ans, 1698 ; Commission of the Earl of BeUomont, 1698 ; Papers relating 
 to the Earl of Bellomont's Administration, so far as respects New Hamp- 
 shire ; Commission of Gov. Joseph Dudley ; Commission of Lieut.-Governor 
 John Usher ; Province Seal ; Trial before the Superior Court of Judicature, 
 of the Province of New Hampshire, Allen t'.s. AValdron, 1707 ; Privateering; 
 Instructions to Governor Dudley ; Notice of Joseph Smith ; New Province 
 Seal ; Failure of the Expedition against Canada, 1711 ; Treaty of Utrecht, — 
 Proclamation; Notice of Charles Story; Lieutenant-Governor Vaughan's 
 complaint and speech ; Commission to Lieutenant-Governor Wentworth ; 
 Settlement of Scotch Irish at Nutfield (Londonderry). 
 
 Vol. III. 1692 to 1722: being Part IL of Papers relating to that 
 Period, containing the "Journal of the House and General Assembly." 
 Manchester, 1869. vii, 853 pp. 
 
 Contents. Journal of the Council and General Assembly, 1692-1722 ; 
 Estimates of cost of building a fort at New Castle, 1700 ; Laws of the 
 Province of New-IIampshire, from 1692-1702; Title of Samuel AUen to 
 Province lands, 1704 ; Gov. Joseph Dudley's Speeches ; Commission of 
 John Bridger as Surveyor-General of all Her Majesty's woods ; An act 
 for a Free School to be kept at Portsmouth, 1708; Petition of inhabi- 
 tants of Quamscott patent for a Charter; Petition of Inhabitants of the 
 south part of Hampton, Hampton Falls, in relation to maintenance of a 
 Minister, 1709; Expedition to Port Royal, 1710; Capture of Port Roj-al, 
 1710; Expedition against Canada, 1711; Petition from Hampton Falls in 
 regard to school maintenance, 1712 ; Petition of Kingston, 1712 ; Articles of 
 
1895.] HISTOEICAL PUBLICATIONS OF KEW HAJVIPSHIEB. 27 
 
 Pacification with the Eastern Indians, 1713 ; Petition of the Inhabitants of 
 Bloody Point, 1713 ; Petition of Dover, 1715; Sketch of Sir Charles Hobby ; 
 Sketch of Gov. Samuel Shute, with his address to the Legislature, 1717 ; 
 Petition of Portsmouth, 1717 ; Treaty with the Eastern Indians at George- 
 town, 1717 ; Sketch of John Bridger, Sm-veyor-General, 1719 ; Apology of 
 the People of Nutfield to Governor Shute, 1719-20. 
 
 Note. — The Journal of the Council and Assembly contained in this volume records 
 the joint transactions of the two bodies. The Assembly's acts required the approval of 
 the Council to give them force. The preceding volume of this series concerned the Acts 
 of tlie Council as the Executive body of the Province. " No Journal of the House, sepa- 
 rate from the joint Journal of the Council aud Assembly, is found till 1711, and tliis is 
 very meagre and incomplete till 1722." 
 
 Vol. IV. 1722 to 1737 : containing important Records and Papers, 
 pertaining to the Settlement of the Boundary Lines between New- 
 Hampshire and Massachusetts. Manchester, 1870. viii, 891 pp. 
 
 Contents. Records of Council, administration of Lt.-Gov. John Went- 
 worth ; Jom-nal of the General Assembly, April 30, 1722, to April 22, 1729 ; 
 Submission of Eastern Indians, 1725; Treaty with the Indians at Casco, 
 1727 ; Journal of the House of Representatives, 1722-1724 ; List of tax 
 payers in New Castle in 1728 ; Administration of Governor William Bur- 
 net : Journal of the House of Representatives from April 22, 1729, to Aug. 1, 
 1730 ; Journal of the Council and Assembly from April 22, 1729, to April 
 23, 1730, during Governor Burnet's administration ; Administration of 
 Governor Jonathan Belcher : Journal of the House from August 25, 1730, 
 to October 20, 1737 ; Petition of inhabitants of Chester, 1737 ; Journal of 
 the General Assembly under the administration of Governor Jonathan 
 Belcher, from August 25, 1730, to October 20, 1737 ; Correspondence, chiefly 
 between Theodore Atkinson and Capt. John Thomlinson, agent of the 
 Province in London, relating mostly to the settlement of the boundary lines 
 between the Massachusetts Bay and New Hampshh-e ; The Belcher corres- 
 pondence, 1731-1737: Correspondence of Gov. Jonathan Belcher with 
 Secretary' Waldron and others of the New Hampshire Province. 
 Note — " Contains all the Proceedings of the Governor, Council, and General Assem- 
 blv of the Province, and all official documents and papers found in the Secretary's office, 
 relating to the long controversy between New Hampshire and Massachusetts, m respect 
 of the Boundary lines between the two Provinces." 
 
 Vol. V. 1738 to 1749 : containing very valuable and interesting 
 records and papers relating to the Expedition against Louisbourg, 1745. 
 Nashua, 1871. viii, 962 pp. 
 
 Contents. Administration of Gov. Jonathan Belcher ; Journal of the 
 House Nov 1738-Feb. 25, 1739-40; Miscellaneous papers: Standards of 
 weights; Province accounts, 1724-1740; Bills of Credit; Petition of Rev. 
 Hu-h Adams of Durham concerning his Maintenance ; Letters of Rev. 
 Hugh Adams; Order for fitting out Privateers, 1739; Orders relative 
 to Spanish prizes, 1739-40; Address of the House of Commons about the 
 
28 THE COLONIAL SOCIETY OF MASSACHUSETTS. [APRIL, 
 
 value of Gold and Silver, and Bills of Credit, 1739 ; Declaration of war 
 against Spain; Certificate respecting Bills of Credit, &o., Dec. 31, 1739; 
 Letters to Governor Belcher concerning an Expedition to New Spain, 
 &e., 1709-40; Joui-nal of the General Assembly, Nov. 1, 1738-March 
 18, 1740-1 ; Administration of Gov. Benning Wentworth : Records of the 
 Council, 1742-67, 1772-74 ; Journal of the House of Representatives under 
 the administration of Gov. Benning Wentworth, 1741-2- June 4, 1748 ; Mis- 
 cellaneous papers : Bill for taxing the New Districts ; Report of committee 
 to call the first meetings in Towns, 1742 ; Memorandum of sundry stores 
 at Fort William and Mary, 1742 ; — List of the Commissioned officers in the 
 Sixth regiment of Militia in the Province of New Hampshire ; Cape Breton 
 Expedition, plan of operations, 1745; Documents relating to Fort Dummer; 
 Jom-nal of the General Assembly, 1742-1750; Massachusetts Bill pro- 
 jected to sink the Paper Currency, &c. ; Memorial of ofiicers at Louis- 
 bourg; Agreement between John Thorn linson and John Tufton Mason, 
 relative to purchase of Mason's claim ; Letter from Masonian Proprietors 
 to the Committee on Province Lands, 1746 ; Answer to Queries respecting 
 the reduction of Canada, 1746 ; Petition of inhabitants of Stratham, 1746 ; 
 Petition of inhabitants of Pennycook for a further supply of Soldiers, 1747; 
 Important Documents comprising Letters and Papers relating to preceding 
 matters in this volume: Petitions to the King from Inhabitants of New 
 Hampshire in favor of Governor Belcher; Petition of John Thomlinson, 
 1739 ("gives a more comprehensive and complete view of the whole dispute 
 respecting the boundary lines, than can elsewhere be found ") ; Thomlinson 
 papers, 1741; Shirley Papers in relation to the Louisbourg expedition, 
 1744-5; List of New Hampshire men in Col. Samuel Moore's regiment 
 engaged in the Louisbourg expedition, 1745. 
 
 Note. — " This volume is of great interest and historical value, as containing all the 
 official records and documents found in the Secretary's office and elsewhere, relative to 
 the part which New Hampshire took in the Expedition against Louisbourg, 1745. . . . 
 The attention of readers is also particularly invited to the documents contained in this 
 volume relative to the final determination of the bouudary line between New Hampshire 
 and Massachusetts, and the very able papers drawn up by John Thomlinson in the latter 
 part of the volume, . . . and the failure of the intended expedition against Canada, 
 1746 and 1747." 
 
 Vol. VI. 1749 to 1763 : containing very valuable and interesting 
 Records and Papers relating to the Crown Point Expedition, and the 
 Seven Years' French and Indian wars, 1755-1762. Manchester, 1872. 
 xii, 929 pp. 
 
 Conlents. Administration of Gov. Benning Wentworth, 1749-1763 : 
 Records of His Majesty's Council, 1750-1763 ; Correspondence showing a 
 conspiracy for the removal of Gov. Benning Wentworth from office ; Journal 
 of the House of Representatives, 1748-1763 ; Special conventions called 
 August, 1754; Indian troubles at Stevens-Town and vicinity; Correspon- 
 dence on Indian hostilities ; Names of men in service on INIerrimack River ; 
 Connecticut River ; of men posted in the neighbourhood of Keene and Fort 
 
1895.] HISTOEICAL PUBLICATIONS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. 29 
 
 Dummer ; Journal of AValter Bryent in running the line between New 
 Hampshire and the Province of Miiine, 1711 ; Journal of a Special Conven- 
 tion relating to Expedition to Crown Point, 1755 ; Letter from Col. Blanchard 
 from Albany, Aug. 28, 1755 ; Proceedings of a Council of War held by Gov- 
 ernor Shirley at New York, Dec. 12, 1755 ; Grant of £30,000 for Crown 
 Point expedition ; Journal of Special Convention, Sept., 1756, concerning 
 Loudon's report of the fall of Oswego; Petition against a Play-House in 
 Portsmouth, 1762 ; Miscellaneous papers : Correspondence between John 
 I'homlinson, Secretary Atkinson, and others; A Representation of the 
 Lords of Trade, respecting New Hampshire, 175o ; Report of agents em- 
 powered to receive the money voted by Parliament to the Colonies ; Com- 
 missions of Gov. Penning Wentworth, from His Majesty, George III., 17C0. 
 Note. — This volume inchides documents, acts, &c., relative to the controversy 
 between the House of Eepreseutatives and Gov. Beuniiig Wentworth; the official pro- 
 ceedings of the Govemmeut and the part of the inhabitants in the French and Indian 
 wars ; the extension and growth of the settlements in the Northern and Western 
 sections of the Province ; the encouragement of Rev. Eleazar Wlieelock's education 
 of tlie Indians. 
 
 VoL VII. 17G4 to 1776; including the whole Administration of 
 Gov. John Wentworth ; the events immediately preceding the Revolu- 
 tionary War ; the losses at the Battle of Bunker Hill, and the record 
 of all proceedings till the end of our Provincial history. Nashua, 1873. 
 xxi, 799 pp. 
 
 Contents. Administration of Gov. Benning Wentworth, 1764-1707 ; 
 Records of the Council, 1764-1774; Journal of the House, during the 
 administration of Gov. Benning ^^'eutworth, 17(34 ; Proclamation relating 
 to the boundary between New York and New-Hampshire, 1764 ; Petition of 
 Rev. Timothy AValker in relation to Bow, N. H., 1764; Proceedings of the 
 General Congress at New York, 1765 ; Petition of the Colonies in relation to 
 the Stamp Act, 1705; Declaration adopted by the Congress at New York, 
 1765; Administration of Gov. John Wentworth; Commission of John 
 Wentworth ; Journal of the House, 1707-1775; Census of New Hampshire, 
 1767 ; Division of the Province into five Counties ; Letter from Governor 
 Bernard on the boundary line between New-PIampshire and Ma.ssachiisetts, 
 1767 ; Instructions to Jonathan Belcher relative to the Boundary line, 1740 ; 
 Correspondence with Tirginia and Maryland on the late act of the British 
 Parliament, 1708-69 ; Road from the Governor's house in Wolfeborough to 
 Dartmouth College, 1771 ; List of rateable estates in the towns of the Prov- 
 ince, 1773 ; Papers relating to the complaint made by Peter Livius against 
 Gov. John Wentworth, 1773 ; Fac-sirailes of the signatures of the Provin- 
 cial Chief Magistrates of New Plampshire from 1680 to 1775; Revolutionary 
 Proceedings : Commencement of organized action in New Hampshire in the 
 Revolution ; First Provincial Congress ; Letters relating to the landing of tea 
 at Portsmouth ; Frances Town resolves, 1774 ; Seizure of Fort William and 
 Mary at New Castle, 1774; Non-importation Association ; Memorial to the 
 Colonies from the Continental Congi-ess ; Address to the King; Second 
 
30 THE COLONIAL SOCEETY OF JLASSACHUSETTS. [Apeil, 
 
 Provincial Congress ; Hillsborough County Congress ; Third Provincial Con- 
 gress; Fourth Provincial Congress, Journal, May, 1775; Correspondence: 
 Letters of Committee of Safety, etc., 177 J ; Fifth Provincial Congress ; 
 Jom-nals of the Conventions in CongTess which assembled at Exeter, Dec. 
 21, 1775 ; Miscellaneous documents : Sundry documents relating to Sur- 
 veys, Boundaries, and Population of Xew Hampshire ; Attack on Quebec, 
 1775 ; Census of New Hampshire, 1775. 
 
 State Papers. Documents and Records relating to the State of New- 
 Hampshire during the Period of the American Revolution. 
 
 Vol. VIII. From 1776 to 1783; Including the Constitution of New- 
 Hampshire, 1776; New Hampshire Declaration for Independence; the 
 " Association Test," with names of Signers, &c. ; Declaration of Ameri- 
 can Independence, July 4, 1776; the Articles of Confederation, 1778. 
 Concord, N. H., 1874. xxviii, 1006 pp. 
 
 Contents. Journal of the House of Representatives, 177.5-7C; Corres- 
 pondence, 1776; Jom-nal of the House, JIarch 6, 177(J-iIarch 2:3, 1776; 
 Correspondence, Committee of Safety, etc., March 23, I77(j-June 4, 1770; 
 List of members of the House, June, 1776 ; Journal of the House, June 5, 
 1776-July 6, 1776; Pieturns of the Association test: list of signers in the 
 various towns of New Hampshire; Correspondence, July 5, 1776- Aug. 23, 
 1776; .Journal of the House, Sept. 4, 1776-Sept. 20, 1770; Special conven- 
 tion for raising troops, Oct., 1770; Correspondence, Aug, 23-Nov. 28, 1776; 
 Journal of the House, 1776-77; Correspondence between April 12-,Tune i 
 1777; Journal of the House, Jane 1, 1777-July 19, 1777; Correspondence! 
 July 19-Sept. 17, 1777; .Journal of the House, Sept. 17, 1777-Sept. 27,1777; 
 Correspondence, Sept. 30-Dec. 7,1777; .Journal of the House, Dec. 17- 
 March 14, 1778 ; Articles of Confederation ; .Journal of the House, Aug. 12- 
 Nov. 28, 1778 ; Public acts [in regard to the Loynlist.s] ; Proceedings of 
 General Assembly, Dec. 25, 1778, to April 3, 1770; Resolves of a convention 
 held on the New Hampshire grants [at Cornish], Dec. 9, 1778; Proceedings 
 of the General Assembly, Dec. 26, 1778-April 3, 1779 ; Dec. 1.5, 1779-,Tan. 1, 
 17«); Feb, 9, 178()-March 18, 1780; April 19-29, 1780; June 7, 17yO-June 
 28, 1780; Correspondence, Aug. 18, 1780-Oct. 6, 1780; Proceedings of the 
 General Assembly, Oct. 11, 1780-Nov. 11, 1780; Dec. 20, 17S0-Jan. 27, 
 1781; March U, 1781-April 11, 1781 ; June 13, 1781-,Tuly 4, 1781 ; Aug. 22,' 
 1781-SHpt. 1, 1781; Nov. 7-Nov. 24, 1781 ; Dec. 19. 1781-March'27, 17Si • 
 Sept. 10-14, 1782; Nov. 13-22, 17S2 ; Dec. 18, 1782-March 1, 1783; Names 
 of sick and wounded Soldiers; Proceedings of the General Assembly, June 
 10-20, 1783. 
 
 Town Papers. Documents and Records relating to Towns in New 
 
 Hampshire ; with an Appendix embracing the Constitutional Conventions 
 of 1778-1779; and of 1781-1783; and the State Constitution of 1784. 
 Vol. IX. Concord, 1875. xli, (1), 939 pp. 
 
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 Contents. The Wheelwright Deed, by the Editor ; Town Papers (al- 
 phabetically arranged by Towns) ; Appendix : Constitutional Conventions 
 in New Hampshire, 1778-1783, with the Constitution established in 1784 : 
 List of Delegates chosen from the several Towns, classed Towns, and 
 Places in New Hampshire, in 1778 to meet at Concord, June 10, for the 
 purpose of forming a new Constitution ; The Constitution proposed in 1779 : 
 A Declaration of Bights and Plan of Government for the State of New 
 Hampshire; The Second Constitutional Convention, list of Delegates; An 
 Address of the Convention for framing a new Constitution of Government, 
 for the State of New Hampshire to the Inhabitants of the State, sent out, 
 1781 ; Proposed Constitution of 1781 ; Second Address of the Convention 
 for framing a new Constitution or form of Government for the State of 
 New Hampshire to the Inhabitants of said State, sent out in 1782 ; A Con- 
 stitution, containing a Bill of Rights, and form of Government, agreed upon 
 by the Delegates of the people of the State of New Hampshire, in Conven- 
 tion, held at Concord, on the first Tuesday of June, 1783 ; submitted to, 
 and approved of, by the people of the State ; and established by their Dele- 
 gates in Convention, Oct. 31, 1783, with a note on the "Bill of Bights " as 
 regards Slavery in New Hampshire, by the Editor. 
 
 Note. — The present volume has its chief value from the light thrown upon the 
 settlements of the Towns, their struggles with the Indians, their boundary line disputes, 
 locations of meeting-houses, settlement and maintenance of ministers, &c. 
 
 Provincial and State Papers. Miscellaneous Documents and Eecords 
 relating to New Hampshire at different periods. 
 
 Vol. X. Including — 
 (i) Journal of the N. H. Convention which adopted the Federal 
 
 Constitution, 1788. 
 (ii) Journal of the Convention which revised the State Constitution in 
 
 1791-1792. 
 (iii) The Great Controversy relating to the " New Hampshire Grants " 
 (so called). 1749 to 1791 ; including troubles in border Towns 
 on both sides of the Connecticut River, 1781-1783. 
 (iv) Letters, &c., of Committee of Safety, 1779 to 1784. 
 (v) Census of 1773. 
 (vi) Census of 1786. 
 
 (vii) Appendix, containing Copies of Ancient Grants, &c., supple- 
 mentary to Volume I. 
 Concord, 1877. xxvi, (2), 719 pp. 
 
 Contents. Journal of the Proceedings of the Convention of the State of 
 New Plampshire which adopted the Federal Constitution, 1788 ; List of 
 Delegates, with Biogi-aphical notes by the Editor ; Journal of the Convention 
 which assembled, in Concord, to revise the Constitution of New Hampshire, 
 17ni-1792 ; List of Delegates, with Biographical sketches by the Editor ; The 
 Controversy between New Hampshire, New York, and Vermont, relating to 
 
32 THE COLONIAL SOCIETY OF MASSACHUSETTS. [April, 
 
 the "New Hampshire grants" (so called) from 1749 to 1791 ; including the 
 Troubles in border Towns on both sides of the Connecticut Uiver : Con- 
 troversy with New York in relation to Boundaries ; Proceedings in relation 
 to the New Hampshire Grants under the Administration of Gov. John 
 Wentworth; Brief history of the Controversy with \'ermont, by Jeremy 
 Belknap ; Discontent in the border Towns of New Hampshire lying east of 
 Connecticut River; — An Address of the Inhabitants of the Towns of Plain- 
 field, Lebanon, Enfield (alias Relhan) Canaan, Cardigan, Hanover, Lime, 
 Oxford, Haverhill, Batn, and Landaff, to the Inhabitants of the Several 
 Towns in the Colony of New Hampshire. Norwich: Printed by John 
 Trumbull, M,DCC,LXXVI. {Reprint) ■,—YeTmont assumes Government 
 
 — New York opposes : Declaration and Petition of the Inhabitants of 
 the New Hampshire Grants to Congress, Jan. 15, 1777; \'ermont asks 
 aid from New Hampshire ; — Observations on the Right of Jurisdiction 
 claimed by the States of New York and New Hampshire, over the New 
 Hampshire Grants (so called) lying on both sides of Connecticut-River. 
 Danvers: Printed by E. Russell. MDCCLXXVIH. (Ue/ninl) ; ^ An 
 Address to the Inhabitants of the New Hampshire Grants (so called) lying 
 westward of Connecticut River, by Timothy Walker ; — First attempt of 
 border Towns in New Hampshire to unite with Vermont ; — A Public 
 Defence of the rujht of the New-Hampshire Grants (so called) on both sides 
 Connecticut-Piiver, to associate together, and form themselves into an 
 Independent State. Dresden: Printed by Alden Spooner, 1770. {Reprint); 
 
 — Measures to form a new State of towns on both sides of Connecticut 
 River : Piesolves of a Convention held on the New Hamjishire Grants 
 at Cornish, Dec. 9, 1778 ; Address to the Inhabitants of the State of 
 Vermont, by Ira Allen, dated at Dresden, Nov. 27, 1778 ; Final dissolution 
 of the Union of Towns east of Connecticut River with Vermont, 1779 ; Pro- 
 posal to unite all the New Hampshire Grants with the State of New Hamp- 
 shire ; Reference to Congress of blatters in Controversy, 1779 ; Address 
 by Ira Allen to the inhabitants of the State of Vermont, July 13, 1779 ; 
 Fresh measures to form a new State of the New Hampshire Grants on both 
 sides the Connecticut River : Proceedings of a Convention at Walpole, 
 Nov. 15, 16, 1780; Convention at Charlestown, N. H., Jan. 10, 1781; Dis- 
 puted Jurisdiction between New Hampshire and Vermont ; Memorial of 
 inhaljitants of Chesterfield, Aug. 25, 1781 ; Report of a Committee of 
 Congress, to whom was referred papers relative to New Hampshire, Oct. 17, 
 1781 ; Commission to Commissioners of Vermont, for the settlement of 
 Boundary lines, 1781; — Collision in border towns, 1781-82 ; — Copy of 
 Letters, Orders, &c., by the New Hampshire Committee of Safety, 1779 to 
 1784 (These papers consist of copies of letters written by the Conmiittee 
 of Safety, 1779-1784, in relation to current matters, and are of historical 
 value " as showing the embarrassments of the country, — the diffic\ilty of 
 raising money for the support of the war; the dangers of frontier towns; 
 the patriotic spirit of the committee, and the sacrifices made Ijy the 
 people "); — Census of 1773 ; Census of 17s0; Appendix: The firant of the 
 Province of Laconia to Sir Ferdinando Gorges and Capt. John ISIason, Nov. 
 
1895.] HISTOEICAX, PUBLICATIONS OF NEW HAJVIPSHIEB. S3 
 
 17, 1629 ; The Squamscott or Hilton's Point Patent, Mar. 12, 1629 (O. S.) ; 
 The Dover Combination, with the names of all the original signers, Oct. 20, 
 16-10; Letter from Capt. Thomas Wiggin to Sir John Cooke, Nov. 19, 
 1632 [in regard to Massachusetts Colony, and the Machinations of Sir 
 Christopher Gardiner, Thomas Morton, and EatcUife]. 
 
 Town Papers. Documenta relating to towns in New Hampshire, 
 "A" to "F" inclusive, with an Appendix, embracing copies, in Fac- 
 simile, of the First Constitution of this State as adopted January 5, 
 1776 ; the Proclamation sent out to the people declaring the said Con- 
 stitution to be in force ; and a Constitution framed in June, 1779, which 
 was rejected by the People. Also, other interesting and valuable 
 documents. 
 
 Vol. XI. Compiled and edited by Isaac W. Hammond. Concord, 
 1882. sxx, (2), 812 pp. 3 folded broadsides. 
 
 Contents. Acworth ; Albany ; Alexandria ; Alstead ; Allenstown ; Alton ; 
 Amherst ; Antrim ; Andover ; Atkinson ; Barnstead ; Harrington ; Bartlett ; 
 Bath ; Bedford ; Bethlehem ; Benton ; Bosoawen ; Bow ; Bradford ; Brent- 
 wood ; Bridgewater ; Brookhne ; Campion ; Canaan ; Candia ; Canterbury ; 
 Centre Harbor ; Charlestown ; Chatham ; Chester ; Chesterfield ; Chiches- 
 ter ; Claremont ; Colebrook ; Columbia ; Concord ; Conway ; Cornish ; 
 Croydon ; Dalton ; Danbury ; Danville ; Deerfield ; Deering ; Dorchester ; 
 Dover ; Dublin ; Dnnbarton ; Durham ; East Kingston ; Eaton ; Effingham ; 
 Enfield ; Epping ; Epsom ; Errol ; Exeter ; FitzwiUiam ; Francestown ; 
 Franconia ; Fremont. Appendix : Documents relative to the service done 
 in the French War by the Quakers of Dover, Dm-ham, Madbury, Rochester, 
 Barrington, and Somersworth; Letter from Col. Theodore Atkinson, Dec. 
 13, 1768, in regard to boundary between N. H. and IST. Y. ; Proclamation to 
 the insurgents in Cheshire and Grafton counties, Jan. 12, 1782; Roll of 
 Capt. Wilham Barron's company, for Canada, 1776 ; Documents relative 
 to Charter Records ; Documents relative to boundaries of several towns in 
 Grafton County, 1780-1793 ; Col. Benjamin Sumner's Scheme to secure an 
 alliance with the Indians in Canada, 1800 ; Documents printed in fac-simile 
 (broadsides) : First Constitution of New Hampshire, 1776 ; Proclamations 
 declaring the same to be in force ; Amended Constitution of 1779, which 
 was rejected by the People (this last is on a folio sheet printed at Exeter, 
 1779), headed " A Declaration of Rights, and Plan of Government for the 
 State of New Hampshire." 
 
 Note. — Collects under each town copies of all the written instruments accessible in 
 the State Department relating to the settlement, incorporation, boundary Hnes, church 
 matters, maintenance of ministers, roads, currency, taxes, etc., of the towns throughout 
 the State. " These documents have been carefully copied from the original manuscripts, 
 scrupulously preserving the orthography, punctuation, capitalization." The volume 
 " contains a large number of names of early residents. . . . Some papers having been 
 published mainly for giving the names signed to them. ... The editor has compiled an 
 introduction to each town, containing in brief many facts relative to its grant, settle- 
 ment, incorporation, origin of name, etc." 
 
34 THE COLONIAL SOCIETY OP MASSACHUSETTS. [April, 
 
 Vol. XII. Gilmautou to New Ipswich, with an Appendix, embracing 
 some Documents relative to Towns which have been returned to the 
 State Archives since the publication of Volume XI. Concord, 1883. 
 xxxii, (2), 854 pp. 
 
 Contents. Gilnianton ; Gilsum ; Goffstown ; Goshen ; Grafton ; Gran- 
 tham : Greenfield ; Greenland ; Groton ; Hampstead ; Hampton ; Hampton 
 Falls; Hancock; Hanover; Haverhill; Henniker; Hill; Hillsborough; 
 Hinsdale ; Ilolderness ; llollis ; Hooksett ; Hopkinton ; Hudson ; Jackson ; 
 Jaffrey ; Jefferson ; Keene ; Kensington ; Kingston ; Lancaster ; Laudaff ; 
 Langdon ; Lebanon ; Lee ; Lempster ; Lincoln ; Lisbon ; Litchfield ; 
 Littleton ; Londonderry ; Loudon ; Lyman ; Lyme ; Lyndeborough ; Mad- 
 bury; Manchester; Marlborough; Marlow; Mason; Meredith; Merrimack; 
 Middleton; Milford ; Monson ; Moulton borough ; Nashua; Nelson; New 
 Boston ; Newbury ; New Castle ; New Durham ; New Hampton ; Newing- 
 ton ; New Ipswich. Appendix : List of Saratoga men, 1777 ; Boscawen 
 enlistments, etc., 1776, 1778, 1779; Bow returns of soldiers, enlistments, 
 1776, 1778, 1780 ; Canterbury train band, enlistments, etc., 1776, 1780, 
 17ol ; Chichester return of Capt. Cram's company, 1776 ; Concord enlist- 
 ments, 1779 and 1781 ; Agreement between the town of Exeter and Edmund 
 Gilman, 1647; Deed of Wadononamin, to Edward Hilton, 1660. Docu- 
 ments relative to a Convention of delegates from towns in Hillsborough 
 and Cheshire counties, 178:5. 
 Note. — " Many valuable documents relative to solJiers of the various Indian and 
 
 Erench and Eevolutionary Wars may be found in this and the preceding volume." 
 
 Preface. 
 
 Vol. XIII. New London to Wolfeborough, with an Appendix, 
 embracing some Documents, interesting and valuable, not heretofore 
 published, including the Census of New Hampshire of 1700 in detail. 
 Concord, 1884. xxxi, (.3), 856 pp. 
 
 Contents. New London ; New Market; Newport; Newton; Northfield; 
 North Hampton; Northumberland; Northwood ; Nottingham; Orange; 
 Orford; Ossipee ; Pelham; Pembroke; Peterborough; Piermont; Pitts- 
 field; Plainfield; Plaistow; Plymouth; Portsmouth; Raymond; Richmond; 
 Bindge; Rochester; Roxbury ; Rumney; Rye; Salem; Salisbury; San- 
 bornton ; Sandown ; Sandwich ; Seabrook ; Shelburne ; Somersworth ; 
 South Hampton ; Springfield ; Stark ; Stewartstown ; Stoddard ; Stratford ; 
 Stratham; Sullivan; Sunapee ; Sharon; Surry; Sutton; Swanzey ; Tam- 
 worth; Temple; Thornton; Tuf tonborough ; Unity; Wakefield; Walpole ; 
 Warner; Warren; Washington; Weare; Wentworth ; Westmoreland; 
 Whitefleld; Wilton; Winchester; Windham; Windsor; Wolfeborough. 
 Appendix: Letter from Sebastian Ralle, 1716 ; Letter from Gov. Belcher con- 
 cerning line between New Hampshire and Massachusetts, 17.3.3 ; Letter from 
 Gov. Francis Bernard concerning the same ; Dover militia officers, 1731-32 ; 
 Soldiers order, 177.5 ; Piermont drafted men, 1777 ; Lloyd's Hills ; Docu- 
 ments relating to Vermont controversy : Proceedings of a Committee meet- 
 
1895.] inSTOElCAL PUBLICATIONS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. 35 
 
 ing, at Lebanon, Feb. 13, 1777 ; at Hanover, June 11, 1777 ; — Report of 
 committee of the Legislatm-e on the foregoing, Nov. 19, 1777 ; Statement 
 relative to Gen. Sullivan's position in regard to the New Hampshire grants ; 
 Census of New Hampshu-e in detail, 1790. 
 
 The State of New Hampshire. RoUs of the Soldiers in the Revolu» 
 tionary "War, 1775, to May, 1777 : with an Appendix, embracing Diaries 
 of Lieut. Jonathan Burton. 
 
 Vol. XIV. Vol. 1. of War Rolls. Concord, 1885. xiii, (3), 799 pp. 
 
 Contents. French and Indian War roUs ; Revolutionary ^^'ar rolls ; 
 
 Appendix : Diary of Lieutenant Jonathan Burton [at Winter Hill, Dec, 
 
 1775 — Jan. 26, 1776] ; Diary of Lieutenant Jonathan Burton, while in 
 the Canada Expedition, from Aug. 1, 1776, to Nov. 29, 1776. The 
 following are the principal regimental rolls printed in this volume : New 
 Hampshire men at Bunker Hill ; Col. Stark's regiment, pay-rolls, Aug., 
 1775 ; Col. James Reed's regiment ; Col. Enoch Poor's regiment ; Col. 
 Timothy Bedel's regiment, muster-rolls, 1775 ; Col. John Stark's regiment, 
 receipts, Oct., 1775; Col. Enoch Poor's regiment, receipts, Oct., 1775; Col. 
 James Reed's regiment, receipts, Oct., 1775 ; N. H. men in Quebec expe- 
 dition ; Roll of troops engaged in the defence of Piscataqua harbor ; 
 N. H. men at Winter Hill, Dec, 1775 ; Col. Bedel's regiment, pay rolls, 
 
 1776 ; Col. Isaac Wyman's regiment, July, 1776 ; Col. Joshua Wingate's 
 regiment, July, 1776 ; Col. Pierse Long's regiment, Aug., 1776 ; Col, Thomas 
 Tash's regiment, Sept., 1776 ; Col. Nahum Baldwin's regiment, Sept., 1776 ; 
 Col. David Oilman's regiment, Dec, 1776 ; Col. Pierse Long's regiment 
 pay rolls, Jan., 1777 ; Col. Pierse Long's regiment as paid for their march 
 to Ticonderoga, Feb., 1777. First N. H. Continental Regiment, 1777, pay- 
 rolls. 
 
 Vol. XV. Vol. II. of War Rolls. May, 1777, to 1780, with an 
 Appendix, embracing names of New Hampshire men in Massachusetts 
 regiments. Concord, 1886. xiv, (2), 847 pp. 
 
 Contents. Revolutionary War rolls ; Ticonderoga Expedition ; Benning- 
 ton troops, 1777 ; Continental regiments, 1778-79 ; Rhode Island campaign, 
 1778 ; Piscataqua harbor troops, 1779 ; Appendix : New Hampshire Men in 
 the service in Massachusetts Regiments. 
 
 The State of New Hampshire. Rolls and Documents relating to 
 Soldiers in the Revolutionary War, with an Appendix, embracing some 
 Indian and French War Rolls. 
 Vol. XVI. Vol. III. of the War Rolls. Manchester, 1887. x, (2), 
 
 1021 pp. 
 
 Contents. Revolutionary War rolls : 1780, 1781 ; Continental Army regi- 
 ments ; Town accounts for bounties, etc., paid to Revolutionary Soldiers; 
 Appendix : Indian and French War rolls (relating to scouting parties dur- 
 ing the Indian troubles and Soldiers in the French wars) ; List of New 
 York Tories' lodgings ; Diary of Lieutenant Abraham Fitts, of Candia, 
 N. H. Sept. 27, 1777 — Nov. 1, 1777. 
 
36 THE COLONIAl, SOCIETY OF MASSACHUSETTS. [April, 
 
 The State of New Hampshire. Part I. Rolls and Documents relat- 
 ing to Soldiers in the Revolutionary War. Part II. MisceUaneous 
 Provincial Papers, from 1629 to 1725. 
 
 Vol. XVII. Vol. IV. of the War Rolls. Manchester, 1889. xxiv, 
 (2), 819 pp. 
 
 Note. — Part I. contains: Miscellaneous Rolls and Documents copied in part from 
 the originals in the Pension Department at Washington and in part from the archives 
 of the State. The Documents consist of Town RoUs, Company EoUs, Soldiers' petitions, 
 Bounty statements, etc., from 1774 to 1781. 
 
 Part II. contains: Transcripts from ancient Documents in the English archives in 
 London, copied under the supervision and at the expense of the late John Scribner 
 Jenness, of Portsmouth, of which some of tlie more important are the following : Grant 
 of the Province of Laconia to S^ Perdinando Gorges and Capt. J. Mason, 1629; Grant 
 and confirmation of Pescataway to S^ F. Gorges and Capt. John Mason, 1631 ; A Rela- 
 tion concerning the estate of New England, 1636 ; The Dover Combination, 1640; Peti- 
 tion of the inhabitants of Portsmouth and Strawberry Bank, 1665; Title of Robert 
 Mason to New Hampshire, 1674; Petition of iuliabitants of Dover, 1677; Portsmouth 
 petition, 1677; Hampton petition, 1677; Petition from Mason and Gorges, 1677; An 
 Account from the agents of Boston concerning their northern bounds, 1678 ; Title of 
 Robert Mason to New Hampshire, statement in support of Title, and complaints of Mas- 
 sachusetts encroachments ; Secretary Chamberlain to Lords of Trade and Plantations, 
 1681, relative to New Hampshire affairs; Petition of Robert Mason against the Council 
 of New Hampshire, 1681; Proceedings in Council, Sept., 1681, Oct., 1682; New Seal, 
 Proclamation, Governor and Council sworn ; Gov. Cranfield to the Commissioners, de- 
 scription of the Province, Resources, etc., 1682; Gov. Cranfield on Mason's claim, etc.; 
 Papers relative to Massachusetts jurisdiction ; Cranfield to Secretary of State, concern- 
 ing Edward Gove; Copies from miscellaneous Province and State Papers, 1675-1724. 
 
 Pages 154-210 contain: "Major-General John Sullivan: Proceedings of a Court of 
 Inquiry, including Testimony; Letters and Certificates approving his Conduct in the 
 Staten Island Expedition, and the Battle on the Brandywine, 1777." The volume also 
 contains the Revolutionary military correspondence of Col. Bedel. 
 
 The State of Nevr Hampshire. Miscellaneous Provincial and State 
 Papers, 1725-1800. 
 
 Vol. XVIII. Manchester, 1890. xxix, (3), 982 pp. 
 
 Contents. The multitude of documents in this volume precludes a detailed 
 list of contents, but some" of the more important are here enumerated : — 
 
 Proceedings of the Council and Assembly, 1728-29 ; Gov. Jonathan 
 Belcher's Commission as Governor of New Hampshire, 1730 ; Instructions 
 to Gov. Belcher ; Proclamation concerning the King's vroods, 1730 ; Petition 
 of appeal of John Thomlinson, agent for New Hampshire, to the King in re- 
 gard to the boundary between Massachusetts and New Hampshire, 1737 (?) ; 
 Answer of Richard Waldron to the foregoing ; Documents relative to the 
 Province Seal and its use, 1788, 1739 ; Instructions to privateers in war with 
 Spain, 1739, 1740; Atkinson and Thomlinson correspondence; Report of 
 Board of Trade on New Hampshire acts, on Bills of Credit, etc., 1743; List 
 of the men who hired the " £25,000 Loan," 1743 ; Gov. Wentworth to Board 
 
1895.] HISTORIC All PUBLICATIONS OF NEW HAJMPSHIKE. 37 
 
 of Trade, 17-li [on encroachments of Massachusetts, Land grants, Boundary, 
 etc.] ; Message, House to the Governor on the Fort Dunimer controversy, 
 1745; Louisbourg expedition, petitions of soldiers, etc., 1745, 1746 ; Papers 
 on Crown Point expedition, 1747 ; Correspondence between Governors 
 Shirley and Wentworth ; Plan of Fort Dummer; Trade between New Hamp- 
 shire and West Indies, 1751 ; Gov. Wentworth to Board of Trade, giving 
 an account of the boundaries and situation of the Province of New Hamp- 
 shire, 1750, 1751 (Massachusetts and New York Controversies, etc.) ; In- 
 structions to Gov. Wentworth, 1761 ; List of deserters from ships in Boston 
 Harbor, 1770 ; Memorial of Peter Livius, with charges against Gov. Went- 
 worth ; Justices in New Hampshire, 1776 ; Petition from Slaves, 1779 ; 
 States' quotas for Indian warfare, 1786 ; Koad from Concord to Durham ; 
 Papers of Lieut. -Col. Joseph Wait of the Continental army; Documents 
 relating to Portsmouth church affairs, etc., 1676-1716, 1717. 
 Note. — "This volume completes the publication of the Miscellaneous Provincial 
 and State Papers from 1725 to 1800. These Papers were selected by the Editor from a 
 mass of Papers in the State House in 1880. The volume also contains all the 'Belknap 
 Papers ' which were not published in Vols. IV". V. and VI. The Appendix contains 
 some documents furnished by Hon. Horatio L. Wait, of Chicago, relative to his Kevolu- 
 tionary ancestor, Joseph Wait ; also Papers furnished by Prank W. Hackett concerning 
 early church affairs, etc., in Portsmouth.'' Preface. 
 
 Provincial Papers of New Hampshire, including the Records of the 
 President and Council, January 1, 1679, to December 22, 1680; July 6 
 to September 8, 1681; November 22, 1681, to August 21, 1682; Rec- 
 ords of the Governor and Council, October 4 to October 14, 1682, under 
 the successive Administrations of Cutt, AValdron, and Cranfield : Acts 
 of the Assembly, August Session, 1699; Journals of the House of 
 Representatives, August 7, 1699, to October 4, 1701, and May 9, 1711, 
 to April 30, 1722: Ancient Documents relating to the Controversy over 
 the Boundary Line between New Hampshire and Massachusetts. With 
 historical Notes, a chronological List of Boundary Line Papers, contem- 
 porary J\Iaps, and other illustrations. 
 
 Vol. XIX. Albert SiiLtiiAN Batchelloe, Editor. Manchester, 
 1891. 760 pp. Folded plans. 
 
 Conten/s. Journal of the House of Representatives, May 9, 1711, to 
 April .10, 1722 ; Documents relating to the Boundary line Controversy be- 
 tween New Hampshire and Massachusetts; Richard Hazzen's Journal of the 
 Survey of the Boundary line between :Massachusetts and New Hampshire, 
 March 20 to April 6, 1740-1 [sic] ; Walter Bryent's Journal in running the 
 Boundarv between New Hampshire and that part of the Massachusetts Bay 
 called County of York, 1741 ; The Boundary line Case, copied from a prmted 
 volume in the office of the Secretary of State, entitled " New Hampshn-e 
 and ^Massachusetts Boundary Cases, 1739"; Chronological List of papers 
 relating to the disputed Boundary line, including all printed in this and pre- 
 ceding Volumes ; Proceedings of the President and Council of the Province 
 
38 THE COLONIAL SOCIETY OP MASSACHUSETTS. [April, 
 
 of New Hampsliire from January 1, 1679 (O. S.), to December 22, 1680; 
 July 6, 1681, to September 8, 1681 ; November 22, 1681, to August 21, 1082; 
 October 1 to October 14, 1G82; Communication of Charles Deane to the 
 ]\Iassachusetts Historical Society respecting the Records of the President 
 and Council of New Hampshire for 1679-1680; — Acts and laws passed by 
 the General Court or Assembly of His Majesties Province of New Hamp- 
 shire in New-England. Boston, printed by B. Green and J. Allen, 1699, 
 reprinted from the original imprint now in the custody of the Historical 
 Society of Pennsylvania ; Memoranda concerning the New Hampshire laws 
 of 1699, by George H. Moore, LL.D., N. Y., 1889 (Reprint); —Journal oi 
 the Assembly [House of Representatives of the Province of New Hamp- 
 shire] August 7, 1699, to October 4, 1701. 
 
 Early State Papers of New Hampshire. Including the Constitution 
 of 1784, Journals of the Senate and House of Representatives, aud 
 Records of the President and Council from June, 1784, to June, 1787, 
 with an Appendix containing an Abstract of the Official Records relative 
 to the Formation, Promulgation, Consideration, and Adoption of the 
 Federal Constitution, and illustrative Notes. 
 
 Vol. XX. Manchester, 1891. 930 pp. 
 
 Note. — The Appenrlix contains Notes on the Convention for the regulation of 
 Commerce, to be holden at Annapolis, on the first Monday in September, 1786, Com- 
 missioners for New Hampshire ; The Convention of 1787, at Philadel])hia; Action of the 
 General Court of New Hampshire in response to the invitation to join in the Convention ; 
 The ratification of the Constitution on the part of New Hampsliire ; Biographical 
 Sketches of three representative Men of the Constitutional period, — Benjamin West, 
 Elisha I'ayne, and .John Langdon ; Some account of John Langdon, by John Langdon 
 Elwyn. 
 
 Vol. XXI. Including the Journals of the Senate and House of 
 Representatives and Records of the President and Council, from June, 
 1787, to June, 1790, with an Appendix containing Biographical Sketches 
 of men who sustained important Relations to the State Government 
 during that Period, taken from the manuscript Biographies of Gov- 
 ernor William Plumer; also Correspondence and Acts of the Legislature 
 pertaining to the Federal Constitution and the Relation of New Hamp- 
 shire to the Federal Government. Concord, 1892. vi, (2), 930 pp. 
 
 Note. — "The student of constitutional history will find in these pages the official 
 account of the Proceedings of the General Court touching the election of delegates, pro- 
 vision for a conventir.n to consider the proposed Federal Constitution, and the assump- 
 tion of the various privileges and duties of Statehood. The currency, the public 
 debt, inter-state affairs, the revision of the laws, the ever-present Masojiian controversy, 
 and the spirit of rebellion which was rife in 1787, were among the subjects of .adminis- 
 tration and legislation which demanded the highest order of statesmanship, and which 
 give the olBcial narrative a peculiar interest and value." Preface. 
 
 The " biographical sketches of several persons participating in the Government of 
 New Hampshire in the period from 1784 to 179.3, copied from the manuscript of William 
 
1895.] HISTOEICAL PUBLICATIONS OP NEW HAMPSHIRE. 89 
 
 Plumer, by permission of the New Hampshire Historical Society," are of Joseph Badger, 
 Benjamin Bellows, Jonathan Blanchard, Joshua Brackett, John Calfe, Joseph Cilley, 
 John Dudley, Abiel Foster, Jonathan Freeman, William Gardner, Joseph Oilman, 
 Nicholas Oilman, John Langdon, Woodbury Langdon, Samuel Livermore, John Sulli- 
 van, Meshech Weare, and Paine Wingate. 
 
 Vol. XXII. Including the Journals of the Senate and House of 
 Representatives and Records of the President and Council, from June, 
 1790, to June, 1793, with an Appendix, containing the Journal of the 
 Senate at the Impeachment of Woodbury Langdon, the Records of the 
 New Hampshire Society of the Cincinnati, and Biographical Sketches 
 of Men who sustained important Relations to the State Government 
 during the Period covered by those Records and Journals, taken from 
 the manuscript Biographies of Governor William Plumer. Concord, 
 1893. vi, (2), 923 pp. 
 
 Note. — The most important legislation of the period covered by this volume, was 
 probably that of the adoption of the Constitutional Amendments which went into effect 
 in 1793. 
 
 Vol. XXIII. State of New Hampshire. A list of Documents in the 
 Public Record Office in London, England, relating to the Province of 
 New Hampshire. Chronologically arranged according to the Order of 
 Record in the several Series designated as Colonial Papers, Miscella- 
 neous Correspondence, Colonial Entry Books, Board of Trade Journal, 
 Board of Trade New England, Board of Trade New Hampshire, Board 
 of Trade Plantations General, Board of Trade Proprietaries, Board of 
 Trade Papers, and America and West Indies. With Notes and Indexes. 
 Manchester, 1893. 567 pp. 
 
 Note. — "The calendar of documents in the English Archives, relating to New 
 Hampshire, which follows, is the work of Mr. B. F. Stevens, of Loudon, England." 
 Preface. 
 
 Vol. XXIV. Town Charters. Including Grants of Territory within 
 the present limits of New Hampshire, made by the Government of 
 Massachusetts, and a Portion of the Grants and Charters issued by the 
 Government of New Hampshire ; with an Appendix, consisting of Papers 
 relating to the Granting of the various Lines and Bodies of Towns, with 
 Acts in regard to Town Bounds in general, and many Documents pro- 
 duced by Disputes between Towns concerning their Boundary Lines, 
 with illustrative Maps and Plans, and complete Indexes. Town Char- 
 ters, Volume I. Concord, 1894. xvi, (2), 971 pp. 16 sheets of plans. 
 / folded Maps. 
 
40 THE COLONIAi SOCIETY OP MASSACHUSETTS. [April, 
 
 RHODE ISLAND. 
 
 Records of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, 
 in Ne-w England. 
 
 Printed by order of the Legislature. Transcribed and edited by John 
 Eussell Bartlett, Secretary of State. 
 
 Vol. I. 1636 to 1663. Providence, 1856. 549 pp. 8vo. 
 
 Contents. Records of the settlements at Providence, Portsmouth, New- 
 port and Warwick, from their commencement to their union under the 
 colony charter, 1636 to 1617 ; Records of the Colony of Rhode Island, and 
 Providence Plantations, under the first Charter, 1647 to 166.3. 
 
 Note, — " The records of the city of Providence previous to the organization of the 
 government in 1 647, are very meagre. It is supposed they were kejrt in greater detail 
 and were destroyed in the year 1676, when the town was burned by the Indians, as 
 those that remain bear traces of fire and water. To make up for the want of a journal 
 of events, such documents as would elucidate the history of the period have been used. 
 These are the Indian deeds connected with Providence, with a variety of other docu- 
 ments of a historical nature, or connected with the purchase of the Indian lands, their 
 transfer from Roger AVilliams to his associates, the first allotments of lands to the early 
 settlers, &c. In selecting the materials for this volume, the Indian deeds of each of 
 the four towns, and the town records to 1647, have been used. Prom that period, the 
 official journals of the proceedings of the General Assembly have been followed to the 
 close of the volume.'' Preface. 
 
 Vol. II. 1664 to 1677. Providence, 1857. iv, 609 pp. 
 
 Note. — " The second volume . . commences with the adoption of the charter of 
 Charles the Second, and the organization of the government under the same in March 
 166.3-1664, and extends to the close of the year 1677, thereby including fourteen years 
 of the Colonial annals. The Records of the proceedings of the General Assembly are 
 printed verbatim from the original manuscript copy in the Archives of the State. In 
 addition to these, there are inserted in their proper places, the records of the ' Proceed- 
 ings of the Governor and Council.' . . Two important events in the history of the 
 Colony took place during the period included in this volume. These are the dispute 
 with the Colony of Connecticut for the jurisdiction of the Narragansett countrj', . . . 
 and King Philip's War." Preface. 
 
 Vol. III. 1678 to 1706. Providence, 1858. vii, (1), 595 pp. 
 
 Note. — " The events of tliis period are among the most important in our Colonial 
 History. They include, first, a discussion of the several claims for the ownership of 
 Mount Hope and the Narragansett country. . . The subversion of the charter govern- 
 ment, and the administration of Sir Edmund Andros, render the year 1686 an important 
 era in our Colonial history. The Colony was now merged into the government of New 
 England, under that Royal Governor, and degenerated into a mere county. No meet- 
 ings of the General Assembly took place under his government, and the only records 
 that in any way show what was done in the Colony during this period are those of the 
 Courts of Quarter Sessions. These though meagre have been introduced into this vol- 
 ume. Documents illustrating the Andros period are printed from thp ,Tohn Carter 
 Brown collection, from the ' Usurpation papers ' in the collections of the Massachusetts 
 
1895.] HISTOEICAIi PUBLICATIONS OF RHODE ISLAND. 41 
 
 Historical Society, etc." The Colonial Records, beginning with the assnmption of the 
 Charter in February, 1690, after the fall of Andros, are now followed to the year 1706." 
 Documents regarding the Earl of BeUomont's inquiry into certain imputed irregularities 
 of the governraent of Rhode Island, with explanatory papers, are mainly drawn from 
 John Carter Brown's collection. " The concluding documents in the volume appertain 
 to the history of the privateers and pirates which infested our waters." 
 
 Vol. IV. 1707 to 1740. Providence, 1859. iv, 622 pp. 
 
 Note. — Contains Proceedings of the General Assembly, 1707-1740. The Public 
 Laws are generally omitted. Acts for the division of towns, their boundaries and 
 organizations, and those relating to provisions for the defence of the colonies, have been 
 included. 
 
 Vol. V. 1741 to 1756. Providence, 1860. iv, 594 pp. 
 
 Note. — This volume is largely devoted to the part taken by Rhode Island in the 
 Preuch and Spanish wars, the expeditions against Louisbourg, Cape Breton, Crown 
 Point, Ticonderoga, Oswego, Quebec, etc. Documents relative to the currency, bills of 
 credit, form a considerable part of the volume. 
 
 Vol. VI. 1757 to 1769. Providence, 1861. iv, 629 pp. 
 
 Note. — Comprises documents on the French and Indian war, the campaigns against 
 Canada, Fort William Henry, Ticonderoga, Oswego, Niagara, etc., papers on the Con- 
 vention of American colonies at New York, in 1765, and proceedings relative to the 
 Stamp Act. Stephen Hopkins's "The Rights of the Colonies examined," 1764, is 
 printed in full. 
 
 Vol. VII. 1770 to 1776. Providence, 1862. iv, 643 pp. 
 
 Note. Pages 55-192 contain "A History of the destruction of His Britannic 
 
 Majesty's Schooner Gaspee, in Narragansett Bay, on the 10th of June, 1772; accom- 
 panied with the Correspondence connected therewith, the action of the General Assembly 
 of the Colony of Rhode Island thereon, and the official journal of the proceedings of the 
 Commission of inquiry." Comprises illustrative documents on the Revolution and pre- 
 ceding events in Rhode Island. 
 
 Vol. VIII. 1776 to 1779. Providence, 1863. iv, 661 pp. Portraits. 
 
 Note. — In addition to the Proceedings of the Assembly during the Revolutionary 
 period, there is included u, mass of correspondence, embracing letters of Washington, 
 Greene, and Sullivan. 
 
 Vol. IX. 1780 to 1783. Providence, 1864. (4), 763 pp. Portrait. 
 
 Note. — The records in this volume are principally concerned with war measures, the 
 raising of troops, furnishing supplies for the array, etc., with Correspondence of Revolu- 
 tionary generals, members of Congress, etc. 
 
 Vol. X. 1784 to 1792. Providence, 1865. (4), 527 pp. 
 
 Note — The adoption of the Constitution of the United States was the principal 
 event of the period covered. The State held aloof from ratifying the Constitution 
 until 1792. 
 
42 THE COLONIAL SOCIETY OF JtASSACHUSETTS. [April, 
 
 VERMONT. 
 
 Records of the Council of Safety and Governor and Council of the 
 State of Vermont, to which are prefixed the Records of the General 
 Conventions from July, 1775, to December, 1777. 
 
 Edited and published by Authority of the State, by E. P. Walton. 
 Vol. I. Montpelier, 1873. viii, 556 pp. Portrait. 8yo. 
 
 Contents. General conventions in the New Hampshire grants, for the 
 independence, organization, and defence of the State of Vermont, July, 
 
 1775, to December, 1777: Convention at Dorset, July 26, 1775, Jan. 16, 
 
 1776, July 24, 1776, Sept. 25, 1776 ; at Westminster, Oct. 30, 1776 ; .Jan. 
 15, 1777 ; at Windsor, June 4, 1777, July 2, 1777, Dec. 24, 1777 ; The first Con- 
 stitution of the State of Vermont : Introduction, Amendments of 1786, 1793- 
 1870, with notes ; Origin of the Constitution and comparison with the Frame 
 of government granted by Charles the Second to William Penn; Copy of the 
 first Constitution ; Council of Safety of the State of Vermont, July 8, 1777i 
 to March 12, 1778 : Introduction ; The powers of the Council ; Members of 
 the Council ; Proceedings of the Council of Safety, July 8, 1777, to Mar. 12, 
 1778; Record of the Governor and Council, Jlarch 12, 1778, to August 23, 
 1779, with biographical notices; The Governor and Council as a Board of 
 
 War, March 11-July 11, 1779. Appendix: Proceedings of the "Congress" 
 
 and "Committee of Safety" for Cumberland county, June, 1774, to Sept., 
 1777 ; Gloucester county committee of Safety ; — " Some miscellaneous Re- 
 marks, and Short Arguments, on a Small Pamphlet, dated in the Convention 
 of the Representatives of the State of New- York, October 2, 1776, and sent 
 from said Convention to the County of Cumberland, and some Reasons 
 given, why the District of New Hampshire Grants had best be a State. By 
 Ira Allen. Hartford, printed by Ebenezer Watson, near the Great Bridge, 
 M.DCCLXXVII." (Reprint.) — ]\Ianifesto prepared and published by order 
 of the Westminster Convention, October 30, 1770 ; Dr. Thomas Young to the 
 Inhabitants of Vermont, 1777 [relative to recognition by the Continental 
 Congress, and action of the CongTess thereon] ; Remarks on Article Three of 
 the Declaration of Rights, by Daniel Chipman; The name " Vermont " ; The 
 union of New Hampshire towns with Vermont, in 1778-9 ; Proclamation of 
 pardon issued by Governor Chittenden, June 3, 1779; — A Vindication of 
 the Opposition of the Inhabitants of Vermont to the Government of New- 
 York, and of their Ri^iht to form an Independent State. Humbly submitted 
 to the impartial World. By Ethan Allen. Printed by Alden Spooner, 
 1779, Printer to the State of Vermont. (From the only copy of the original 
 pamphlet in the State Library.) — Documents on the enforcement of the 
 authority of Vermont in Cumberland County in May, 1779. 
 
 Additions and Corrections. 
 
1895.] HISTORICAL PUBLICATIONS OF VEEHONT. 43 
 
 Records of the G-overnor and Council of the State of Vermont. 
 Vol. II. Montpelier, 1874. viii, 528 pp. Portraits. Plate: View 
 of Catamount-tavern. 
 
 Contents. Records of the Governor and Council, Oct., 1779, to August 
 29, 1782 ; Records of the Board of War ; The first Vermont Council Chamber 
 in the old Catamount Tavern at Bennington, by Hiland Hall; Resolutions 
 of Congress in September and October, 1779, and action of Vermont 
 thereon : Memorial of a Convention held at Lebanon, N. H., July 27, 1779, 
 by a Committee of the Convention ; The Claim of Massachusetts to part of 
 Vermont. Vermont's Appeal to the candid and impartial World. Contain- 
 ing a fair Stating of the Claims of Massachusetts-Bay, New-Hampshire, and 
 New-York. The Right the State of Vermont has to Independence — With 
 an Address to the Honorable American Congress, and the Inhabitants of 
 the thirteen United States. By Stephen R. Bradley, A.]M., Hartford : Printed 
 by Hudson & Goodwin [1779] ; — A Concise Refutation of the Claims of 
 New-Hampshire and Massachusetts-Bay to the territory of Vermont ; with 
 occasional Remarks on the long disputed Claim of New- York to the same. 
 Written by Ethan Allen and Jonas Fay, Esq". Published by order of 
 the Governor & Council of Vermont. Hartford : printed by Hudson & 
 Goodwin [1780]; — Mission of Ira Allen to New Jersey, Pennsylvania, 
 Delaware, and Maryland ; Action of Congress in reference to Vermont, 
 from Feb. 7 to Oct. 6, 1780, and legislative Proceedings and Documents 
 connected therewith : Representation of inhabitants of Hartford, Norwich, 
 Sharon, Royalton, Fairlee, Newbury, and Barnet, presented to Congress 
 in August, 1779, and again Feb. 8, 1780; Petition of the principle inhabi- 
 tants on Connecticut river on both sides and northward of Charleston, met 
 in a convention at Dresden on the New Hampshire Grants, August 30th, 
 1780 ; Proposals of Vermont for a permanent Alliance and Confederation 
 with adjoining states ; The Second Union of New-Hampshire Towns with 
 Vermont, and union with part of New York, in 1781: Proceedings at a 
 Convention of delegates from the several towns in the county of Cheshire, 
 in the State of New-Hampsliire, held at Walpole Nov. 15, 16, 1780 ; Journal 
 of convention of delegates from forty-three towns on the New Hampshire 
 grants, held at Charlestown, Jan. 16, 1781 ; Secret history of the Charles- 
 town convention, by Ira Allen; Joint action of the Charlestown and 
 Cornish Convention and the General Assembly of Vermont, Feb., 1781, 
 resulting in the Second Eastern Union; Proposal of Vermont to settle 
 the boundary question with New York, Feb., 1781 ; Proceedings of Con- 
 gress relating to Vermont, July 19 to Aug. 20, 1781 ; Vermont delegates 
 to Committee of Congress, Aug. 18, 1781, with questions of the Committee 
 and answers of the Delegates, and an account of the interview, by Ira 
 Allen ; Proceedings of the General Assembly of Vermont, Oct. 16-19, 1781 ; 
 Force against Vermont attempted by New York and contemplated by New 
 Hampshire, 1781-2 ; Collisions in the Western district, Oct. and Dec, 1781 ; 
 CoUisions in the Eastern district, Nov., 1781, to Feb., 1782; Account of the 
 Second Eastern Union, by Jeremy Belknap ; Ira Allen's account of the col- 
 
44 THE COLONIAL SOCIETY OP MASSACHUSETTS. [April, 
 
 lisions ill the Eastern and Western districts, 1781-2; Correspondence of 
 Gov. Chittenden and General Washington on Vermont affairs, Nov., 1781, 
 and Jan. 1, 1782 ; — 
 
 The Present State of tlie Controversy between the States of New- York 
 and New-Hampshire on the one part, and the State of Vermont on the 
 other. Hartford, printed by Hudson & Goodwin, M.DCC.LXXXII. — 
 " The original draft of this pamphlet was printed, from the manuscript 
 Ethnn Allen Papers, in the second volume of Vt. Hist. Soc. Collections, pp. 
 231-239. The argument was re-written and enlarged for the press. Though 
 the committee consisted of five, the authorship is doubtless to be assigned to 
 Ethan AUen." Editor. — 
 
 Dissolution of the Eastern and Western Unions, February, 1782 ; Obser- 
 vations relating to the influence of Vermont, and the territorial claims, on 
 the politics of Congress, by James Madison ; The Haldimand correspond- 
 ence, 1779-1783 [concerning the efforts of General Frederick Haldimand 
 to negotiate with Vermont for a treaty of peace with Great Britain] ; 
 Protest of adherents to New York against Vermont in 1778, and origin of 
 the Charlestown Convention of Jan. 16, 1781; — Covenant, compact, and 
 resolutions adopted by a Convention of the Representatives of the Settlers 
 on the New Hampshire grants west of the Green Mountains — in 1775 ; — 
 The Proceedings of the Convention of the New Hampshire Settlers ; con- 
 taining the Covenant, Compact, and Resolutions ; and also Twelve Acts of 
 Outlawry. Passed by the Legislature of the Province of New York against 
 those Settlers, and their answer to the same. Hartford: Printed by 
 Ebenezer Watson. 1775. {Reprint.^ 
 
 Additions and corrections of Vols. I. and II. 
 
 Vol. III. Montpelier, 1875. viii, 540 pp. Portrait. 
 
 Contents. Records of the Governor and Council, Oct., 1782, to Jan. 27, 
 1791. Appendix : Resolutions of Congi-ess hostile to Vermont, Dec. 5, 1782, 
 and related documents ; Renewed application of Vermont for admission 
 into the Union and documents thereon : Resolutions and address to Con- 
 gress ; Proposed partition of Vermont between New Hampshire and New 
 York ; Insurrection in Windham county, and its bearing on the Vermont 
 question in Congress, Oct., 1783, to Oct., 1781 ; Obstacles in Congress to the 
 recognition of Vermont, 1785-6 ; Conflicting Titles to Land, and measures of 
 relief ; The Betterments acts, 1781-1785 ; Vermont at the period of Shays's 
 Rebellion, 1781 to 1787 : Public discontent-meeting in the town of Wells ; 
 IMeeting of malcontents in Rutland county; Insurrections in Wind.sor and 
 Rutland counties; Aid to Massachusetts in Shays's Rebellion; Vermont 
 acts of sovereignty : Bills of credit in 1781 ; Coinage of copper money > 
 Naturalization acts in 1785 and 1787 ; Post-office department established ; 
 Negotiations on Commerce between Vermont and foreign Countries ; Negoti- 
 ations for a ship canal from Lake Champlain to St. Lawrence river. — Settle- 
 ment of the controversy with New York ; The Vermont convention of 1791 ; 
 Proceedings and Debates of the Convention for adopting the Constitution of 
 the United States : Celebration of the adoption of the Constitution at Rut- 
 
1895.] HISTOEICAi PUBLICATIONS OF VERMONT. 45 
 
 land, March 8, 1791 ; — Admission of Vermont into the Union ; Papers of 
 Charles Phelps, of Marlborough, on the controversy with New York, &o., 
 1770 to 1777. 
 
 Additions and corrections to Vols. I., II., and III. 
 
 Vol. IV. Montpelier, 1876. iv, 554 pp. Portrait. 
 
 Contents. Records of the Governor and Council, Oct., 1791, to Oct., 
 1801 ; Vermont in 1791, as viewed by a Virginian ; No Slaves in Vermont in 
 1791 ; Amendments to the Constitution of the United States ; Letters of 
 public officers of Vermont, 1791 to 1802 ; Internal improvements, on land and 
 water : Champlain canal, and navigation of Connecticut river ; — Surveillance 
 of the northern frontier by British troops, 1783 to 1796 : Organization of 
 the town of Alburgh ; Interference at Alburgh of British officers in 1792 ; 
 Vermont charged with endangering the peace of the country ; Withdrawal 
 of the British troops. — Military contributions of Vermont for the military 
 Service of the United States, 1792 to 1800 : The Vermont company in Gen- 
 eral Wayne's war against the Northwestern Indians, 1792-95 ; The minute- 
 men of 1794, 1797-8, Vermonters in the 16th Regiment, U. S. army in 
 1798-9 ; — Extradition of fugitives from justice, 1796-99 ; Addresses of the 
 Legislature of Vermont to the President of the United States, and answers 
 thereto, 1796-1803 ; Obituary notices of Gov. Thomas Chittenden and Doct. 
 Jonathan Arnold ; Governor's speeches to the legislature, 1797-1803 ; Re- 
 plies of Vermont to the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions of 1798 ; Last 
 Speech of Gov. Thomas Chittenden. 
 
 Vol. V. Montpelier, 1877. iv, 569 pp. Portrait. Plates. 
 
 Conteyits. Record of the Governor and Council, Oct. 1804 to Oct. 1813 ; 
 Appendix: Governor's Speeches to the General Assembly, 1804 to 1812; 
 Proposed Amendments to the Federal Constitution; State-Capitals and 
 State-houses of Vermont : Rutland and Windsor State Capitals from 1791 
 until 1797; Montpelier the State Capital subsequent to 1807; The first 
 State-House at Montpelier, 1808 to 1835 ; The second State-House at Mont- 
 pelier, 1836 to 1857 ; The third State-House at Montpelier, from Oct. 13, 
 1859; — The Vermont State Bank, 1806; Northern boundary line of Ver- 
 mont; Addresses of the Legislature of Vermont to the President of the 
 United States, and Replies, 1806-1812; The State-Prison; British intrigue 
 in New England, 1809 : The Embargo in Vermont, and the Craig-Henry 
 correspondence, 1808-1812; Domestic manufactures in Vermont, 1809; — 
 Correspondence between Gov. Tichenor of Vermont and Gov. Craig of Can- 
 ada, 1809: On the Suppression of Counterfeiting in Canada; — Origin and 
 causes of the union of New Hampshire towns with Vermont in 1778 and 
 1781 : An Address of the Inhabitants of the Towns of Plainfield, Lebanon, 
 Enfield, (alias Relhan), Canaan, Cardigan, Hanover, Lime, Oxford, Haverhill, 
 Bath, and Landaff, to the Inhabitants of the several Towms in the Colony of 
 New-Hampshu:e. Norwich: Printed by John Trumbull M.DCC,LXXVI. 
 (i?epnnO ;— Observations on the right of jurisdiction claimed by the States 
 of New York and New Hampshire, over the New Hampshire grants (so 
 
46 THE COLONIAL SOCIETY OP MASSACHUSETTS. [April, 
 
 called) lying on both, sides of Connecticut-River. Danvers : Printed by E. 
 Kussell, MDCCLXXVIII. Signed " Republican" (iieprinO;— An Address 
 to the Inhabitants of the New Hampshire grants (so called) lying westward 
 of Connecticut river [By Timothy Walker], 1778 (Reprint); — A Public De- 
 fence of the right of the New-Hampshire Grants (so called) on both Sides 
 Connecticut-River, to associate together, and form themselves into an Inde- 
 pendent State. Dresden : printed by Alden Spooner, 1779 (Reprint) ; — 
 Letter from Ira AUen to Meshech Weare, 1778; Address to the Inhabitants 
 of the State of Vermont, by Ira AUen, Nov. 27, 1778 ; Brig. Gen. Wooster 
 to Col. Warner, Jan, 6, 1776. 
 Vol. VI. Montpelier, 1878. iv, 574 pp. Portraits. 
 
 Contents. Records of the Governor and Council, Oct. 1813 to Oct. 1822 ; 
 Governor's Speeches to the General Assembly, 1813 to 1821 (Chittenden, 
 Galusha, Skinner) ; Boundary line between New York and Vermont, from 
 the South- West corner of Vermont to Poultney river ; Proposed Amend- 
 ments to the Constitution of the United States ; Vermont opposed to the 
 Hartford Convention; Vermont in the War of 1812: Detached Militia; 
 Volunteer force ; Action of the Legislatures of 1812 and 1813 ; The Vermont 
 Regiments in the IT. S. army, 1812-1815 (lists of officers) ; Capture of the 
 U. S. Sloops Growler and Eagle; A British plundering expedition to 
 Plattsburgh, Swanton, and other towns ; British demonstration against 
 Burlington, Aug. 2, 1813 ; Campaign against Montreal, Oct. and Nov. 
 1818 ; Campaign of 1811 on the Niagara frontier ; Capture of Fort Erie ; 
 Battle of Chippewa plain ; Battle at Lundy's Lane, July 25, 1814 ; Bat- 
 tle of Fort Erie, Aug. 25, 1814 ; Land and Naval battles at Plattsburgh. 
 — Vermont on Slavery and the Missouri question, 1819 and 1820; Rights of 
 the respective States in the public Lands of the United States. 
 
 Vol. VII. Montpelier, 1879. iv, 527 pp. Portraits. 
 
 Contents. Records of the Governor and Council, Oct. 1822 to Oct. 1831; 
 Governor's Speeches to the General Assembly, 1822 to 1830 (Skinner, Van 
 Ness, Butler, Crafts) ; Proposed amendments to the Federal Constitution ; 
 Internal improvements in Vermont, 1823-1845 : Surveys for Canals in Ver- 
 mont ; The Introduction of Railroads into Vermont ; Visit of Lafayette to 
 Vermont, 1825. 
 
 Vol. VIII. Montpelier, 1880. iv, 517 pp. Folded Map. Portraits. 
 Contents. Record of the Governor and Council, Oct. 1831 to Oct. 1836 ; 
 Governor's Speeches to the General Assembly, 1831 to 1834 (Gov. Palmer) ; 
 Boundary line between Vermont and New Hampshire, Report, 1792 ; Tenure 
 of the Executive office, 1882 ; Resolutions on Topics of national Policy, 1831- 
 1834; Report on the erection of the Second State House in Montpelier; 
 Judges of the Supreme Court arraigned, and vindicated, 1838 ; Biographical 
 and Historical: Abel Curtis, Col. John WiUiams, Gen. William Barton; 
 Hon. Timothy Stanley; — Claim of the Cognawaga Indians to land in Ver- 
 mont ; Additional historical Documents on Gov. Benning Wentworth's 
 Grants of land in Vermont, with list of Townships granted [New York 
 
1895.] HISTOKICAIi PUBLICATIONS OP VERMONT. 47 
 
 claims to Vermont lands] ; Order of the Gov"- of the N. Y. [King's] College 
 for the settlement of Kingsland, now AVashington, Vt., 1772 ; Capture of 
 Ticonderoga and Crown Point, 1775 ; Convention at Dorset, Sept. 21, 1775 ; 
 Remonstrance against Congress authorizing Cols. Allen and Warner to 
 raise Troops independent of New York, — probably 1776; Meeting of the 
 CouncO. of Safety of Cumberland county, Sept. 3, 1777 ; Scheme of 1779 to 
 unite all the New Hampshire grants with New Hampshire ; Second Union 
 of Towns east of Connecticut river with Vermont ; Some old maps touching 
 Vermont; A chorographical map of the northern department of North 
 America embracing Vermont, published about 1779 ; Tour of President 
 Monroe in Vermont in 1817 ; Alphabetical list of Governors and Lieutenant 
 Governors, March 13, 1778, to October, 1836 ; Members of the Council of 
 Safety and Council, 1777 to 1836 ; Secretaries to the Governor and Council, 
 1778 to 1836. 
 
 Index to biographical and personal notices, Vols. I. to VIII. ; Chrono- 
 logical Index to historical documents, notes and references ; List of Portraits 
 and other engravings, Vols. I. to VIII. 
 
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