ADVERTISEMENT. HAVING brought our Annals of NEW-ENGLAND down to the Settlement of the Massachusetts Colony, in the Ist Volumn; and having lately received a most authentick and valuable Journal of Events relating to said Colony,-From the time when their 1st Gov Winthrop, Dep Gov Dudley, Eleven Assistants, with their Charter, Four Ministers & about 1500 people were waiting at the Isle of Wight & other Places in the South and West of England, to sail for this desired Land; viz. from Monday March 29. 1630, to Jan. 11. 1648, 9: Wherein are many Remarkables not to be found any where else; and whereby alone we are enabled to correct many Mistakes and ascertain the Dates of many Articles in others :-all wrote with the said Gov WINTHROP'S Own hand, who deceas'd in the very house I dwell in the 26th of March after: I may now proceed with a further Enlargement of Intelligence, and with a greater certainty and Exactness. And for my Readers greater Satisfaction I shall also go on, as I did before, to give them, not my own Expressions, but those of the Authors who lived in the times they wrote of; excepting now and then a Word or Note of mine for Explanation Sake, distinguished from theirs by being inclosed in such Marks as [These]. So that we may as it were hear those eminent Persons, Gov Bradford, Gov Winslow, Gov. Winthrop, Mr. Secretary Morton of Plymouth; Gov Bradstreet, Mr. Secretary Nowell, &c. in the Massachusetts Colony Records; the Rev. Mr. Hubbard, and Others, telling us the remarkable Events of the Times they liv'd in. But as I was unhappily obliged to close the former Volumn abruptly in September 1630, about 2 Months after our entering the 2d Section of the IId Part; I must refer to That, and begin the IId Volumn with September 28, in Continuation of the 2d SECTION Containing Articles from the Beginning of the Settlement of the Massachusetts or 2d Colony, to the Settlement of the 7th and last, by the Combination of 41 Persons into a Form of Government at Piscataqua, on Oct. 22. 1640, afterwards call'd the Province of New-Hampshire. N, B. See the Marks explained at the End of this Cover. K. of France. 1630 Lewis XIII. || K. of Great Britain. K. of Spain. + Philip IV. 28. SECT. II. Continued. Sept.HE 3d Court of Assistants at Charleston. Present the Governour, Deputy Governour, Capt. Endicot, Mr. Ludlow, Nowell, Coddington, Bradstreet, Rossiter, Pynchon. Ordered that no Person permit any Indian to use any Peece [or Gun] on any occasion, under 7.10 for the first Offence; for the second, to be Fined and Imprisoned at the Discretion of the Court; -that no Person give, sell, truck or send any Indian Corn to any English out of this Jurisdiction, nor to any Indian, without Licence from the Governour and Assistants :-*That 1.50 be levied out of the several Plantations, for Mr. Patrick and Mr. Underhill; [I suppose for some Military Purpose] viz. * English and Indian Corn being 10s. a Strike, and Bever at 68. a Pound; we made Laws to restrain selling Corn to the Indians; and to leave the Price of Bever at Liberty, which was presently sold for 10s. and 20s. a pound. (d.) [By this it seems as if the much greater part of the People at Charlestown were now removed to Boston, and the Rev. Mr. Wilson with them.] Sept. 30. Thursday, About 2 in the Morning, Mr. Isaac Johnson dies: He was a holy Man and Wise, and died in sweet Peace; leaving Part of his Substance to the Colony. (w) This Gentleman was a prime Man among us, having the best Estate of any; zealous for Religion, one of of the Five Undertakers,* and the greatest Furtherer of this Plantation: He made a most godly End: dying willingly; professing his Life better spent in promoting this Plantation, than it could have been any other Way: He left to us a great Loss. (d) The first Magistrate that died in the Massachusetts: (sd) [And Capt. Johnson says] The Beginning of this Work seemed very dolorous; first for the Death of that worthy personage, Isaac Johnson Esq; whom the Lord had endued with many precious Gifts; insomuch as he was had in high Esteem among all the people of God, and as a chief Pillar to support this new erected Building. He very much rejoiced at his Death, that the Lord had been pleas'd to keep his Eyes open so long, as to see one Church of Christ gathered before his Death: At whose Departure, there were not only many weeping Eyes, but some fainting Hearts, fearing the Fall of the present Work. (j.) [And the late chief Justice Samuel Sewall, Esq. inform'd me; That this Mr. Johnson was the principal Cause of settling the Town of Boston, and so of its becoming the Metropolis, and had removed hither; had chose for his Lot the great Square lying between Cornhill on the SE, Treemount Street on the N W, Queen-Street on the N E, and School-Street on the SW; and on his DeathBed desiring to be Buried at the upper End of his Lot, in Faith of his rising in it, He was accordingly buried there; which gave Occasion for the first Burying Place of this Town to be laid out round about his Grave.] *The five Undertakers were Governour Winthrop, Dep. Governour Dudley, Sir Richard Saltonstall, Isaac Johnson, Esq. and Mr. Revil. (d) [Oct.] The first Execution in Plymouth Colony : 'which is a Matter of great sadness to us, is of one John 'Billington; for Way-laying and Shooting John Newco'men, a young Man, (br) in the Shoulder, (h) whereof he 'died: The said Billington was one of the profanest among 'us: He came from London, and I know not by what 'Friends shuffled into our Company. We used all due Means 6 K. of France. 1630 Lewis XIII. || K. of Great Britain. K. of Spain. + Philip IV. Means about his Trial: was found guilty both by Grand 'and Petty Jury; and we took the Advice of Mr. Winthrop, and others, the ablest Gentlemen in the Massa'chusetts-Bay, who all concurred with us, that he ought 'to Die, and the Land be purged from Blood. (b r.)* *[N. B. This is the Order wherein Governour Winthrop sets this Article, who was consulted about it: though Mr. Hubbard says,-about September; and Gov. Bradford-in the latter part of the Year.] Mr. Phillips the Minister of Watertown, and others, have their Houses burnt. (w) Oct. 19. The first General Court of the Massachusetts Colony-and this at Boston: Present the Governor, Dep. Governor, Sir Richard Saltonstall, Mr. Ludlow, Capt. Endicot, Mr. Nowell, Pynchon, Bradstreet, (Mcr) [N. B. For the Form of Government in the Massachusetts under Dep. Governor Endicot, subordinate to the Governor and Company in England before they arrived with the Charter; See April 20. 1628, and April 30. 1629; But since their Arrival Here; the (1st) Form of their Government was that of Governor, Dep. Governor, and Assistants; the Patentees with their Heirs, Assigns and Associates being Freemen, &c. But now in this General Court, they agree on a (2d) Form as follows-] Proposed as the best Course-For the FREEMEN to have the Power of chusing ASSISTANTS, when they are to be chosen and the ASSISTANTS, from among themselves to chuse the GOVERNOR, & Dep. GOVERNOR, who with the Assistants to have the Power of making Laws, and chusing Officers to execute the same: This was fully assented to by the General Vote of the People. (Mcr) And now the Mcr gives the first List of Persons desiring to be made Freemen, to the Number of 108, as follows. Mr. Mr. Edward Gibbins [or Gibbons, Mr. John Wareham, after, Major General] Mr. William Jeffries, Mr. Samuel Sharp, Mr. Thomas Graves, [after, a Rear Mr. Roger Conant, Mr. William Blackstone, [formerly Mr. Richard Brown, Roger Williams, [a Minister, who Mr. George Phillips, [Minister of Mr. John Wilson, [Minister of Bos- Dorchester. Mr. Samuel Skelton, [Minister of Salem.] Mr. William Colborn, [after, Ruling Elder of the 1st Church in Boston.] Mr. William Aspinwall, [after, Secretary of Rh. Island Colony.] Edward Converse, Richard Church, Richard Silvester, William Balstone, Mr. Samuel Pool, &e. (Mcr) [But many of them seem not to be made Freemen till May 18. 1631; which see. But Capt. Johnson says, that] at the Court in October mary of the 1st Planters came and were made free; yet afterward none were admitted to his Fellowship, but such as were at first join'd in Fellowship with one of the Churches of Christ; their chiefest Aim being bent to promote this Work altogether; [and that] the Number of Freemen this Year was about 110. (j) [But he mistakes in calling this their 2d Court on the S. Side of the River.] Oct. 23. Mr. Rossiter, one of the Assistants Dies: (w) a godly Man, and of a good Estate; which still weakens us: |