New Englands Memorial Primary Source Edition PDF Download

Excerpt from New England's Memorial: Also Governor Bradford's History of Plymouth Colony; Portions of Prince's Chronology; Governor Bradford's Dialogue; Gov; Winslow's Visits to Massasoit His work was printed at Cambridge in a small quarto vol ume, and the Colony of Plymouth defrayed part Of the ex penses. A second edition was printed in Boston In 1721, with a supplement by Josiah Cotton, Esq; a third in New port in 1772; a fourth edition at Plymouth, 1826. A fifth edition was prepared by Hon. John Davis, and published in Boston in 1826. We have revised and compared the text of this last with the first edition, and prepared, from the origi nal sources, many new explanatory notes. Messrs. Thatcher and Higginson, eminent divines, it will be noticed in the original preface, speak of the author as a godly man, and that the work is compiled Of truthful mat ter, and the author acknowledges his indebtedness to the manuscript Of Governors Bradford and Winslow, though he himself collected all the papers which he thought could be of any use to the colony. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.