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Excerpt from Winthrop's Journal, Vol. 2: History of New England, 1630-1649 For the opportunity to reproduce the title-page of the "Bay Psalm-Book" we are indebted to Mr. Wilberforce Eames of the Lenox Library. This book of psalms, translated by various of the Massachusetts clergy, chiefly by Richard Mather, Thomas Welde and John Eliot, was the first book issued from the Cambridge Press set up by Stephen Daye in 1639; indeed, it was the first book printed in America north of Mexico. It superseded the version of Sternhold and Hopkins hitherto used at the Bay. Plymouth continued as before to use the psalm-book of Henry Ainsworth. The "Bay Psalm-Book" is exceedingly rare; only four perfect copies are known, only ten copies in all. The second illustration is a facsimile of the first page of the memorable New England Confederation of 1643. It seems not to have been photographed before. Two manuscripts are in existence: one in the Connecticut State Library, the other in the office of the Register of Deeds for Plymouth County, at Plymouth. It is the former which, by the kind consent of the State Librarian, Mr. GeorgeS. Godard, is reproduced in this volume. The document, which is in a fine state of preservation, is a manuscript of four pages, each of about 16 by 13 inches in size, and bears date Plymouth, September 5, 1672. The last facsimile is of two pages from An Almanack for 1649, by Samuel Danforth, printed at Cambridge in 1649. The first almanac printed in the colonies was that for 1639, printed in that year by Stephen Daye, the second product of the Cambridge Press (the first was the freemen soath). No copy is known to be extant of any issue before 1646. All the earlier issues exist in single copies only; that here reproduced is preserved in the Lenox Library. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.

This abridged edition of Winthrop's journal, which incorporates about 40 percent of the governor's text, with his spelling and punctuation modernized, includes a lively Introduction and complete annotation. It also includes Winthrop's famous lay sermon, "A Model of Christian Charity", written in 1630. As in the fuller journal, this abridged edition contains the drama of Winthrop's life - his defeat at the hands of the freemen for governor, the banishment and flight of Roger Williams to Rhode Island, the Pequot War that exterminated his Indian opponents, and the Antinomian controversy. Here is the earliest American document on the perpetual contest between the forces of good and evil in the wilderness - Winthrop's recounting of how God's Chosen People escaped from captivity into the promised land. While he recorded all the sexual scandal - rape, fornication, adultery, sodomy, and buggery - it was only to show that even in Godly New England the Devil was continually at work, and man must be forever militant.

For 350 years Governor John Winthrop's journal has been recognized as the central source for the history of Massachusetts in the 1630s and 1640s. Winthrop reported events--especially religious and political events--more fully and more candidly than any other contemporary observer. The governor's journal has been edited and published three times since 1790, but these editions are long outmoded. Richard Dunn and Laetitia Yeandle have now prepared a long-awaited scholarly edition, complete with introduction, notes, and appendices. This full-scale, unabridged edition uses the manuscript volumes of the first and third notebooks (both carefully preserved at the Massachusetts Historical Society), retaining their spelling and punctuation, and James Savage's transcription of the middle notebook (accidentally destroyed in 1825). Winthrop's narrative began as a journal and evolved into a history. As a dedicated Puritan convert, Winthrop decided to emigrate to America in 1630 with members of the Massachusetts Bay Company, who had chosen him as their governor. Just before sailing, he began a day-to-day account of his voyage. He continued his journal when he reached Massachusetts, at first making brief and irregular entries, followed by more frequent writing sessions and contemporaneous reporting, and finally, from 1643 onward, engaging in only irregular writing sessions and retrospective reporting. Naturally he found little good to say about such outright adversaries as Thomas Morton, Roger Williams, and Anne Hutchinson. Yet he was also adept at thrusting barbs at most of the other prominent players: John Endecott, Henry Vane, and Richard Saltonstall, among others. Winthrop built lasting significance into the seemingly small-scale actions of a few thousand colonists in early New England, which is why his journal will remain an important historical source.

Genealogical research and history combine in these pages to provide valuable insight into the voyage of the Winthrop Fleet and other related ships in 1630. Early attempts at settlement in the new colonies and religious, social, and economic influences in