Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
A collection of original papers relative to the History of the colony of Massachusets-bay.
Call Number
Lapidus 5.1880
1150.507.003
Identifier
ark:/88435/dcxd07h3935
Publisher
Boston, New-England: Printed by Thomas and John Fleet, 1769.
Language
English
Date Created
1769
Extent
[2], ii, 576 p. 21 cm. (8vo).
Provenance
Princeton copy 1 Book label 'Ex libris W. H. Jr.' and signed on a front free endpaper 'Walter Hollander, Jr. April 1980.'
Princeton copy 1 inscribed on title page 'Starlin.'
Source Acquisition
Princeton copy 1 Gift; Sidney Lapidus, Princeton Class of 1959, 2021.
References
ESTC W31190
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
"The papers of which this volume consists are intended to support and elucidate the principal facts related in the first part of The history of Massachusets-Bay [by Thomas Hutchinson], and may serve as an appendix to it" -- p. ii.
Includes documents illustrative of the Antinomian controversy, the record of the quo warranto proceedings against the Massachusetts charter in 1635, Winthrop's answer to the Ipswich letter about La Tour, the Abstract of the Lawes of New England proposed byJohn Cotton, etc.
Princeton copy 1 Lapidus copy extra-illustrated with 20 plates, chiefly portraits.
Binding Note
Princeton copy 1 Three quarter leather; dark green boards; marbled endpapers; in green cloth-covered slipcase.

Discovery Information

Subject
Massachusetts—History—Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775—Sources
Extra-illustration—19th century

Physical Characteristics

File Count
645

Institutional Information

Collection
The Sid Lapidus '59 Collection on Liberty and the American Revolution
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/a6208122-5d12-4c4a-8edc-8b1746807a5c/manifest