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Contents

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

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1627. Return of Allerton. Agreement with London Adventurers. Formation of

a partnership or purchase. Division of lands. Beaching of a ship bound for

Virginia. Aid given by Bradford and the plantation. Fells' flight. Construc-

tion of pinnace and house at Manomet. Allerton sent to England for Kenne-

bec patent. Letters from the Dutch plantation. Bradford's reply. Hiring of

the trade.

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1628. Results of Allerton's mission. Letters of Sherley. Power of attorney to

English partners. Kennebec patent. Visit from Rasiere. Purchase of wam-

pum and employment with Indians. Wollaston's settlement. Morton's plot

against him. Lord of Misrule. Endecott interferes. Morton's trading in arms

with the Indians. Effects of the practice. Morton arrested and sent to Eng-

land. Arrival of Rogers and his condition. Allerton trades on his own account 32

1629. Arrival of some from the Leyden congregation. Sherley on the migration.

Cost of the passage and problem of caring for the people. Allerton and the

Kennebec patent. Freedom from customs. Return of Morton. Wanted in

England for trial. Writes an abusive book. Allerton's trading, and treatment

of Elder Brewster. Ashley to be trader at the Penobscot. His demands on the

plantation. Willett appointed to be his associate. Allerton's business methods.

The cargo of salt. Allerton sent to England with instructions. Ralph Smith

settles in New Plymouth. Sickness at Salem and mission of Samuel Fuller.

A church established and manner of confirming

62

1630. Ashley better supplied than the plantation. Arrival of Captain Peirce and

fishing vessels. Hatherley and the White Angel. Sherley's letter on the vessel.

Allerton exceeds his instructions. Assurances that the plantation is not con-

cerned in the White Angel. Purpose of the undertakers disclosed. Ashley caught

in trading arms and powder with the Indians. Allerton no longer employed by

the plantation. Billington's crime and punishment. Covenant at Charlestown 97

1631. Winslow on Allerton and the White Angel. Allerton's commission retained
by English partners. Sherley's letter of explanation. Question of responsibil-
ity. Allerton's course described in detail. Hatherley's declaration before Gover-

nor Winthrop. Allerton's confirmation and Winslow's statement. Confu-

sion in Allerton's accounts. His trading post taken by the French. Disciplined

by the church. French take trading house of New Plymouth. Josiah Winslow,

accountant. Sir Christopher Gardiner and his adventures. Winthrop's letter

and action of the Privy Council

1632. Sherley's favoring of Allerton in ship. Hatherley and Peirce have differ-

ences with Allerton. Scattering of the settlement. Duxbury and Green's Har-

bor. Wreck of Peirce's vessel .

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1633. Sherley on Allerton's misfortunes. Roger Williams and his dismission to

Salem. Indians invite a settlement on Connecticut River. Dutch and the

Indians. Infection at New Plymouth. Large shipment of beaver
. . 157

1634. A letter from Sherley. Killing of Hocking at Kennebec. Arrest of Alden.

Governor Dudley's letters. Commission for regulating plantations. Massa-

chusetts Bay and the Kennebec affair. Action of English proprietors. Stone

seizes a Plymouth ship at Manhattan. Killing of Stone by the Indians. Pesti-

lence among the Indians on the Connecticut River

. . 174

1635. Winslow's petition to the Lords Commissioners for Plantations. Opposition

from Gorges and Mason. Winslow questioned on church matters and com-

mitted to the Fleet. Sherley on the White Angel accounts. French take the

trading house of New Plymouth. Attempt to recover it and cause of failure.

Attitude of Massachusetts Bay. Great and destructive storm. Migration

from Massachusetts Bay to the Connecticut. Dispute over rights to land, and

manner of settlement. Glover and Norton

. 196

1636. Accounts and shipments of beaver. How disposed of by English partners.

Winslow can give no clear statement of accounts. Wreck of shallops going to

the Connecticut. Pequots seek friendship with Massachusetts Bay. Death of

Oldham. Expedition to punish the Indians. Ralph Smith retires from ministry.

Laws of New Plymouth

. 226

1637. Outbreak of the Pequots. On uniting with Massachusetts Bay against the

Indians. Attitude of the Narragansetts. Battle at the fort and swamp. Win-

throp reports the victory. Pequots scattered and made harmless. Complaint

of Andrewes and Beauchamp. Sherley discharged from agency

.. 242

1638. Murder of an Indian and punishment of the murderers. More complaints

from England. Shipments and payments made. High price of cattle and corn.

Earthquake

1639. 1640. Grants for new townships. Dispute over boundary of Scituate and
Hingham. The River Charles. Agreement with Massachusetts Bay. Bradford

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assigns the lands under patent. Old comers and purchasers. Bounds of reserved
tracts. Winslow unwilling to go to England. Sherley's offers of a meeting.
Fall in the price of cattle

274

1641. Sherley appoints attornies. Manner of settlement of accounts. Charles
Chauncy and his views on baptism. Increase of outlying settlements

1642. Increase of sin. Explanation offered. Questions from Massachusetts Bay

and reply of Bradford. Opinion of Reyner. Of Partrich. Of Chauncy. Affair

of Granger. Sherley on the accounts. Form of release. The plantation

wronged. Letters of Andrewes and Sherley

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308

1643. Death of Elder Brewster. His career and character. The providence of

God displayed. Confederation of the plantations. Jealousy between Uncas and

Miantunomo. Indians bound over to keep peace. Death of Miantunomo 342

1644. Proposal to remove to Nauset. Loss to the church. Relations with the In-
dians and acts of the Commissioners under the confederation. Narragansetts
dissatisfied. Conditions imposed for peace

. 367

1645. Special meeting of the Commissioners. Continued trouble between Uncas

and Narragansetts. Levy of armed force. Interpretation of Articles of

Confederation. Messengers sent to Indians. Results of a conference . . . 376

1646. Visit to New Plymouth of Captain Cromwell. Killing of one of his men.

Winslow goes to England to answer Gorton and other complainants. Remains

there

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