[1] Thomas Hutchinson, the historian of Massachusetts, attributed
this document to Francis Higginson, but Alexander Young and Robert C.
Winthrop have shown that another draft of these “Considerations,” in
the handwriting of Forth Winthrop, and now preserved in the Winthrop
Papers, was probably inspired by John Winthrop. Another copy in the
English State Paper Office is endorsed “White of Dorchester his
instructions for the plantation of New England.”
[2] Quote, _i. e._ quost, an obsolete spelling of coast.
[3] The manuscript now in the library of the Massachusetts Historical
Society, ends at this point, the following pages having been lost
since it was in the possession of Hutchinson. The remainder of the
journal of the voyage is reprinted from Hutchinson’s “Collection
of Original Papers relative to the History of the Colony of
Massachusetts Bay,” Boston, 1769.
[4] Gloucester harbor.
[5] These were the settlers who came with Maverick.
[6] The emigrants from Boston, England.
[7] The “Four Sisters” and the “Mayflower.”
[8] Increase Norwell, afterward Secretary of the Colony.
[A] _Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts
Bay in New England.—Boston, 1853._