Chronicles of the First Planters of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, from 1623 to 1636 by Young, Alexander - 1846

Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1846. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. First edition (Sabin 106052, Howes Y-13). Rebacked with new end sheets. Some loss to spine head and to spine base, board corners bumped, pencil name on title page, pencil note on contents page. 1846 Hard Cover. viii, 571 pp. Board cloth boards with gilt title on spine, blind-stamped decoration on boards. Now first collected from original records and contemporaneous manuscripts, and illustrated with notes. Includes: John White's Brief Relation of the Occasion of Planting of This Colony; William Hubbard's Narrative of the Discovery and First Planting of the Massachusetts; The Original Records of the Governor ad Company of the Massachusetts Bay, in New-England; Governor Cradock's Letter to Captain John Endicott; the Company's First General Letter of Instructions to Endicott and His Council; The Company's Second General Letter of Instructions to Endicott and His Council; The Form of Government for the Colony; The Allotment of the Lands; Oaths of Office for the Governor and Council; The Company's Agreement with the Ministers; Francis Higginson's Journal of His Voyage; Francis Higginson's New-England Plantation; General Considerations for Planting New-England; The Agreement at Cambridge; The Company's Letters to Higginson and Endicott; The Governor and Company's Humble Request to Their Brethren in and of the Church of England; Deputy Governor Dudley's Letter to the Countess of Lincoln; Captain Roger Clap's Memoirs; The Early Records of Charlestown; William Wood's Description of Massachusetts; John Cotton's Life and Letters: Samuel Whiting's Life of John Cotton - Cotton's Letter to His Wife - Cotton's Letter to the Bishop of Lincoln - Cotton's Reasons for His Removal to New-England; Richard Mather's Journal; Anthony Thacher's Narrative of His Shipwreck; Thomas Shepard's Memoir of His Own Life.