New England's Memorial

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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 MassasoitThe Memorial was first published in 1669, in the lifetime of the author, Nathaniel Morton, who, three years after the settlement of Plymouth, being then eleven years of age, came thither from his native town in the north of England, with his father and mother. (she was the sister of Gov. Brad ford.) In 1615, he was elected clerk of the Colony Court, and held that office forty years, till the time of his death.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 ia 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 and prepared, h'om 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 PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.