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Three episodes of Massachusetts history. The settlement of Boston Bay. The Antinomian controversy. A study of church and town government;

Adams, Charles Francis, 1835-1915, 1892. A public-domain text about Boston, accessioned whole so the archive can quote it.

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book

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Adams, Charles Francis, 1835-1915

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Boston, New York, Houghton, Mifflin and company

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1892

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en

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NYPL RESEARCH LIBRARIES 3 3433 07954363 7 m *^."'. H'^ i*> J . ^. -,, >o 1 ^^ ^ \^ -fir.-'- • ■*• U^jLxJyil / ^ l^(^ -fip €|)arlrci francifi 3lUam6. RICHARD HENRY DANA. A Biography. With Portraits Revised Edition. 2 vols, crown 8vo, gilt top, ^4.00. THREE EPISODES OF MASSACHUSETTS HISTORY. With two Maps. 2 vols, crown 8vo, gilt top, $4.00. HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & COMPANY, Boston and New York. uention Scanner: Foldout in Book! THREE EPISODES OF MASSACHUSETTS HISTORY THE SETTLEMENT OF BOSTON BAY THE ANTINOMIAN CONTROVERSY A STUDY OF CHURCH AND TOWN GOVERNMENT BY CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS VOLUME I BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY (grbe iaitcrsiDe ^Srcsj^, Cambriboc 1892 Copyright, 1892, By CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS. .All rights reserved. SECOND EDITION. The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A. £21ectrotyped and Printed by H. O. Uougbton & Co. PREFACE. Fifty years ago, the late Richard Frothingham undertook to write a history of Charlestown. The book was published in numbers, which appeared with sufficient regularity until the narrative reached the eventful 17th of June, 1775. The author then found himself irresistibly drawTi from the smaller to the larger field, and the History of the Siege of Boston superseded the History of Charlestown, which remains to this day unfinished. Eighteen years ago, the town of Weymouth had occasion to celebrate the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of its settlement, and I was invited to de- liver an historical address in commemoration of the event. In preparing it, my attention was first drawn to the early settlement of the region about Boston Bay ; the rest naturally followed, and step by step I found myself drawn into a study of the history of the town in which I lived. My experience differed from Mr. Frothingham's in this respect : his narrative enlarged into an episode of general history after a century and a half of local history had been covered ; my narrative began with an episode of general history, — an episode involving IV PREFACE. not only mueli of that which is most interesting in the story of the settlement of ^lassachusetts, but also the concurrent course of events in England and Scot- land. When this part of the narrative was disposed of, it again immediately merged itself in another episode of general history, than which none connected with early New England is more interesting or charac- teristic, — more dramatic, more curious or more contested. As Sir Ferdinando Gorges and Thomas Morton passed off the little local stage. Mistress Anne Hutchinson and young Sir Henry Vane appeared upon it. And so they played their parts. When they disappeared, it might naturally be sup- posed the slow, uneventful course of local narrative began. I did not find it so. On the contrary, the whole succession of events in the quiet Massachu- setts town, — from the 16th of September, 1639, when a church was gathered, to the 11th of June, 1888, when the town voted to become a city, — the whole succession of these events, with no effort on my part, — indeed, I might almost say in spite of me, — seemed to lift itself up until it became sublimated and typi- cal. It was the story, not of a town, but of a people. Properly, therefore, and in a narrow sense, this book is a History of the Town of Quincy, in Massach

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