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[1]

Thomas J. Holmes, Increase Mather. A Bibliography of his Works (1931), hereinafter cited as Holmes IM, II, 580.

[2]

George P. Winship, The Cambridge Press, 1638-1692 (1945), p. 290.

[3]

Increase Mather, Practical Truths Tending to Promote the Power of Godliness (Boston, 1682), p. [vii].

[4]

Lindsay Swift, "The Massachusetts Election Sermons," Pub. Col. Soc. Mass., I (1894), 393.

[5]

Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England (1856), V, 30.

[6]

Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England (1854), V, 7.

[7]

Shurtleff, Records of the Governor and Company, V, 418.

[8]

Grateful acknowledgement is made to the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company and to Brigadier General Fred E. Pereira for permission to search the records.

[9]

Isaiah Thomas, The History of Printing in America (1874), I, 185.

[10]

The writer wishes to thank the Massachusetts Historical Society for permission to print this document. The aid of Dr. Stephen T. Riley, the Librarian, is also gratefully acknowledged.

[11]

William B. Sprague, The Life of Jedidiah Morse, D. D. (New York [c1874]), p. 30.

[12]

William Bentley, Diary (Salem, 1907), II, 327.

[13]

Diary of Cotton Mather, Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 7th Ser., Vols. VII and VIII (1911-12), hereinafter cited as CM Diary, II, 241.

[14]

Thomas J. Holmes, Cotton Mather. A Bibliography of his Works (1940), hereinafter cited as Holmes CM, I, 375.

[15]

The Mather Papers, Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 4th Ser., VIII (1808), 406.

[16]

Increase Mather, Practical Truths, p. [vii].

[17]

Extracts from the Itineraries and other Miscellanies of Ezra Stiles, D.D., LL.D. (New Haven, 1916), p. 466.

[18]

Nathaniel Appleton, A Thanksgiving Sermon on the Total Repeal of the Stamp-Act (Boston, 1766), title-page.

[19]

Lawrence C. Wroth, The Colonial Printer (1938), p. 240.

[20]

Extracts from . . . Ezra Stiles, p. 440.

[21]

Ibid.

[22]

The Belknap Papers, Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 6th Ser., IV (1891), 142.

[23]

Ibid., 5th Ser., III (1877), 312-313.

[24]

The writer wishes to thank the Massachusetts Historical Society for permission to print this document.

[25]

Rollo G. Silver, "Publishing in Boston, 1726-1757: The Accounts of Daniel Henchman," Proc. Am. Ant. Soc., LXVI (1956), 19.

[26]

The Literary Diary of Ezra Stiles, D.D., LL.D., ed. Franklin B. Dexter (1901), III, 278.

[27]

Belknap Papers, 5th Ser., II (1877), 434. See a letter from John Eliot to Jeremy Belknap, Sept. 30, 1782: "You asked me for one of my sermons. I have not one, even for myself. My brother must go home without them. I had only six, wch I gave away under the promise of more, but few were printed." (Ibid., 6th Ser., IV (1891), 237).

[28]

Earle Coleman, "Edward Everett Hale: Preacher as Publisher," PBSA, XLVI (1952), 139-150.