New-Englands | Plantation. | or, | A Short and True | Description
of the | Commodities and | Discommodities | of that Countrey. |
Written by Mr. Higgeson, a reuerend Diuine | now there resident.
| Whereunto is added a Letter, sent by Mr. Graues | an enginere,
out of New England, | The Third Edition, enlarged. | [Printer’s
ornament] | London. | Printed by T. and R. Cotes, for Michael
Sparke, dwelling | at the Signe of the Blue Bible in Greene-Arbor,
1630. |
Small 4to. 23 numbered pages. Collation: Title (1), reverse, To
the Reader, signed M. S. (2); New-Englands Plantation (3-17);
[Ornament] A Letter sent from New-England, by Master Graues,
engynere now there resident (18-19); A Catalogue of such needfull
things as euery Planter doth or ought to Prouide to go to
New-England, etc. (20-21); The names of the most remarkable places
in New-England (22-23); ends “Fjnjs.” Signatures, A7; 1 leaf, B-D
in 4s.
Copies of the several editions are preserved in the following
libraries:
_First Edition._
Harvard University Library.
Essex Institute Library, Salem, Mass. (This copy has title-page and
last leaf in fac-simile.)
John Carter Brown Library, Providence, R. I.
New York Public Library (Lenox Library).
New York State Library, Albany, N. Y.
Library of Congress.
Library of E. D. Church, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Library of a Collector, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Library of Frederick R. Halsey, New York City.
Library of Edward E. Ayer, Chicago, Ill.
_Second Edition._
Boston Public Library.
New York Public Library (Lenox Library).
Library of E. D. Church, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Library of a Collector, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Library of Henry Huth, London, Eng.
_Third Edition._
Boston Public Library.
Massachusetts Historical Society Library.
John Carter Brown Library, Providence, R. I.
New York Public Library (Lenox Library).
Philadelphia Library Company. (This copy has title-page of the
first edition bound with text of the third edition.)
British Museum Library.
Library of Edward E. Ayer, Chicago, Ill.
In the following pages the first edition of “New-Englands Plantation”
is reproduced in fac-simile from a copy in the John Carter Brown
Library, at Providence, R. I., through the courtesy of the Librarian,
Mr. George Parker Winship. The third edition also has been reprinted
from a copy in the library of the Massachusetts Historical Society
for purposes of comparison and to preserve the additional matter
that it contains. The account of the voyage to Neihum-kek and
other writings of Higginson are from the manuscript formerly in
the possession of Governor Hutchinson and now preserved by the
Massachusetts Historical Society.