Massachusettensis de conditoribus; or, The builders of the Bay colony,
reporting, the design where-on, the manner where-in, and the people where-by the colony of the Massachusetts-Bay was planted, by means of eleven short and succinct discourses respecting the lives, characters, and remarkable deeds of several of the most eminent and worthy persons, both clerical and lay, righteous and reprobate, among the first generation of planters in New England ... By Samuel Eliot Morison ...

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Main Author

Morison, Samuel Eliot, 1887-1976.

Language(s)

English

Published

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1930.

Subjects

Puritans.
Massachusetts > Massachusetts / Biography.
Massachusetts > Massachusetts / History > Massachusetts / History / Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Note

Includes index.
Contains biographies of Richard Hakluyt, John Smith, Thomas Morton, John White, John Winthrop, Thomas Shepard, John Hull, Henry Dunster, Nathaniel Ward, Robert Child, John Winthrop, jr., John Eliot, and Anne Bradstreet.
"This large-paper edition consists of five hundred and fifty numbered copies, of which five hundred are to be sold. This is number 89."

Physical Description

xiii, 365 p. col. front., plates, ports., map, facsims. 25 cm.

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