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  =VOL. I.      JULY, 1847.      NO. 3.=




  THE

  NEW ENGLAND

  =HISTORICAL & GENEALOGICAL REGISTER:=

  PUBLISHED QUARTERLY,

  UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE

  NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC, GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY.


  REV. WILLIAM COGSWELL, D. D., EDITOR.


  [Illustration]


  BOSTON:
  SAMUEL G. DRAKE, PUBLISHER,
  NO. 56 CORNHILL.
  1847.


  COOLIDGE & WILEY, Printers, 12 Water Street.




  CONTENTS.

                                                                    Page

  Memoir of Governor Endecott,                                       201

  Original Covenant of the First Church in Massachusetts Colony,     224

  Heraldry,                                                          225

  Heraldic Plate,                                                    231

  Ratification of the Federal Constitution by Massachusetts,