Calling at _Major John Bradford's_ at Kingston near Plimouth, son of
Major Wm. Bradford formerly Dep Gov'r of Plimouth Colony, who was
eldest son of Wm. Bradford Esq their 2nd Gov'r, & author of this
History; ye sd Major John Bradford gave me _several manuscript
octavoes_ wh he assured me were written with his said Grandfather
Gov'r Bradford's own hand. He also gave me a _little Pencil Book_
wrote with a Blew lead Pencil by his sd Father ye Dep Gov'r. And He
also told me yt He had lent & only lent his sd Grandfather Gov'r
Bradford's History of Plimouth Colony wrote by his own Hand also, to
judg Sewall; and desired me to get it of Him or find it out, & take
out of it what I thought proper for my New-England Chronology: wh I
accordingly obtained, and This is ye sd History: wh I found wrote in
ye same Handwriting as ye Octavo manuscripts above sd.