OF THE

MASSACHUSETTS

HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

VOL II.

OF THE FOURTH SERIES.

LIB

OF T

UNIVERSITY
OF

CALIFORNIA

BOSTON:

PUBLISHED FOR THE SOCIETY,

BY CROSBY, NICHOLS, AND COMPANY.

1854.

CAMBRIDGE:

METCALF AND COMPANY, PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY.

FGI 113

451 3011 7.2.

Act of Incorporation,

By-Laws,

Officers of the Society,

Resident Members,

CONTENTS.

Ill Newes from New-England: or a Narative of New-Englands

By John Clark Physician of Rode Island in

Persecution.

America,

Letter from Certain Ministers and others of New England to

Cromwell, upon his Application to Persons here to settle in

Ireland,

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Letter from William Bradford to John Winthrop,

Letter from Emanuel Downing to James Usher,

Supposed Letter from Rev. Cotton Mather, D. D.,

Memoir of Rev. Thaddeus Mason Harris, D. D.,

130

The First Plymouth Patent,

Letters from Dr. William Douglass to Cadwallader Colden of New

156

Correspondence relating to a Memoir of the Hon. John Quincy Adams, 199