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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 23 23 Browse Search
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 16 16 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 15 15 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition. 12 12 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 6 6 Browse Search
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman) 4 4 Browse Search
Edward H. Savage, author of Police Recollections; Or Boston by Daylight and Gas-Light ., Boston events: a brief mention and the date of more than 5,000 events that transpired in Boston from 1630 to 1880, covering a period of 250 years, together with other occurrences of interest, arranged in alphabetical order 4 4 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition. 4 4 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers 4 4 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 2 2 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers, Book XI: Captain John Smith in Virginia (A. D. 1606-1631.) (search)
Book XI: Captain John Smith in Virginia (A. D. 1606-1631.) The first four of the following extracts are from Smith's Generall Historie of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles (edition of 1626), pp. 39-49. The next four are from the Historie of Travaile into Virginia Britannia, by William Strachey, secretary of the Vtisements for the Unexperienced Planters of New England or anywhere, by Captaine John Smith, sometimes Governour of Virginia, and Admirall of New England. London, 1631. Reprinted in Mass. Hist. Coll., 3d series, vol. III. pp. 7, 29, 30, 44. There is a memoir of Captain Smith, by G. S. Hillard, in Sparks's American Biography, vbility; there being so many good commodities besides. Xiii.—Captain John Smith's recollections of his own life. [also written in the last year of his life,—1631.] The wars in Europe, Asia, and Africa, taught me how to subdue the wild savages in Virginia and New England in America . . . . Having been a slave to the Turks
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers, chapter 15 (search)
Book XV: the Massachusetts Bay colony. (A. D. 1629-1631.) The first of these extracts is from Rev. Francis Higginson's True Relation of the Last Voyage to New England, written from New England, July 24, 1629, reprinted in Young's Chronicles of the First Planters of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay: Boston, 1846 (pp. 235-237). The second is from the same work: (Young, pp. 232-235). The third is from New England's Plantation; or, A Short and True Description of the Commodities and Discommodities of that Country, by Francis Higginson: London, 1630: (Young, pp. 242-256). This pamphlet attracted so much attention, that three distinct editions of it were published in a year. The next two passages are from Life and Letters of John Winthrop (vol. II. pp. 15-16, 64-65). The last passage is from the Memoirs of Captain Roger Clap: (Young, pp. 351-354). I.—The voyage of the Massachusetts colonists. [the first large colony of the Massachusetts Bay company sailed from England in