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BY JOHN WINTHROP, ESQ.

FIRST GOVERNOUR OF THE COLONY OF THE MASSACHUSETTS BAY.

FROM

HIS ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS.

WITH NOTES

TO ILLUSTRATE

THE CIVIL AND ECCLESIASTICAL CONCERNS, THE GEOGRAPHY, SETTLE-
MENT AND INSTITUTIONS OF THE COUNTRY, AND THE LIVES
AND MANNERS OF THE PRINCIPAL PLANTERS.

BY JAMES SAVAGE,

MEMBER OF THE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

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VOL. I.

Sæpe audivi, Q. Maximum, P. Scipionem, præterea civitatis nostræ præclaros viros, solitos ita
dicere, cum majorum imagines intuerentur, vehementissime sibi animum ad virtutem
Sallust, Bell. Jugurth. c. iv.

accendi.