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    A briefe discription of New England and the severall townes therein together with the present government thereof
    A briefe discription of New England and the severall townes therein together with the present government thereof
    A briefe discription of New England and the severall townes therein together with the present government thereof
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    A briefe discription of New England and the severall townes therein together with the present government thereof

    By Samuel Maverick

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      A briefe discription of New England and the severall townes therein together with the present government thereof - Samuel Maverick

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      Title: A briefe discription of New England and the severall townes therein

      together with the present government thereof

      Author: Samuel Maverick

      Release Date: October 25, 2010 [EBook #33904]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A BRIEFE DISCRIPTION OF NEW ***

      Produced by Therese Wright and the Online Distributed

      Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was

      produced from scanned images of public domain material

      from the Google Print project.)

      Transcriber's note: The original text contains many instances of variation in spelling and hyphenation, these have been preserved as they appear. Inconsistent punctuation has also been preserved, although missing punctuation have been added without comment.

      In the description of Greenwich, the author has omitted the number of miles from Stamford to Greenwich. The omitted number is in this e-text represented by a thin dotted line.

      MAVERICK'S

      Description of New England.

      A BRIEFE

      DISCRIPTION OF NEW ENGLAND

      AND THE

      SEVERALL TOWNES THEREIN

      TOGETHER WITH

      THE PRESENT GOVERNMENT THEREOF.

      [From a Manuscript written in 1660 by Samuel Maverick, and recently discovered in the

      British Museum by Henry F. Waters, A.B.]

      [1885]

      BOSTON:

      Press of David Clapp & Son.

      PREFACE.

      By John Ward Dean.

      The Committee on English Research of the New England Historic Genealogical Society called attention in their last annual report to the fact that there were in England many important documents relating to the American colonies, as well as manuscript maps hitherto unknown to historical investigators. They urged upon the society the desirability of having exact copies of them made now while we have in Mr. Henry Fitz-Gilbert Waters an experienced American antiquary resident in London. This statement has been most strikingly verified by the recent discovery by Mr. Waters of the Winthrop map—one of the most valuable contributions yet made to our early colonial history—notices of which appeared in the Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society for June, 1884, and in the Register for July, 1884 (xxxviii. 342).

      The manuscript Description of New England, which is here printed, is a still more important discovery. Though it bears neither name nor date, there is internal evidence that it was written in the year 1660, after the return of Charles II., by Samuel Maverick, afterwards one of the king's commissioners. Maverick, when Winthrop and his company arrived, was settled at Noddle's Island, now East Boston, and was known to have been here some years before. The date of his arrival in New England has hitherto been unknown. This manuscript gives it as 1624. Maverick was then about twenty-two years old.

      An account of New England by one of the first white men who ever settled on the shores of Massachusetts Bay, one of the old planters whom Gov. Winthrop found here, is certainly of extraordinary interest to all students of our colonial history. Its fortunate discovery emphasizes in the strongest manner the great importance of the work which Mr. Waters is doing for us in England.

      This paper clears up many obscurities in our early New England history, and gives us definite information which we have long desired to obtain. It was probably presented to Sir Edward Hyde, afterwards Earl of Clarendon, who was then Charles the Second's Lord High Chancellor. It may be the paper referred to by Maverick in his letter to

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