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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,         232

  Letter of Chief-Justice Sargent,                                   237

  Complete List of the Ministers of Boston,                          240

  Congregational Ministers and Churches in Rockingham County, N. H., 244

  Genealogy of the Wolcott Family,                                   251

  Genealogy of the Minot Family,                                     256

  Genealogy of the Parsons Family,                                   263

  Ancient Bible in the Bradford Family,                              275

  Biographical Notices of Physicians in Rochester, N. H.,            276

  Sketches of Alumni at the different Colleges in New England,       278

  Advice of a Dying Father to his Son,                               284

  Relationship,                                                      285

  Decease of the Fathers of New England,                             286

  New England,                                                       288

  Arrival of Early New England Ministers,                            289

  Genealogies and their Moral,                                       290

  First Settlers of Rhode Island,                                    291

  Marriages and Deaths,                                              292

  Notices of New Publications,                                       293




[Illustration: (Portrait of John Endecott, Governor.)]




NEW ENGLAND

HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL REGISTER.

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




MEMOIR OF GOVERNOR ENDECOTT.[1]


It is now upwards of two centuries and a quarter since the despotic
sway of the English Sovereigns over the consciences of their
subjects, induced all who entertained different sentiments from those
of the established church, to turn their eyes towards the wilderness
of America, as an asylum from the unnatural persecutions of the
Mother Country.

With this in view, some of the principal men among those who had
already sought a refuge in Holland, commenced treating with the
Virginia Company, and at the same time took measures to ascertain
whether the King would grant them liberty of conscience should they
remove thither. They ultimately effected a satisfactory arrangement
with the Company, but from James they could obtain no public
recognition of religious liberty, but merely a promise, that if
they behaved peaceably he would not molest them on account of their
religious opinions.

On the 6th of September, 1620, a detachment from the Church at
Leyden set sail from Plymouth for the Virginia territory, but owing
to the treachery of the master,[2] they were landed at Cape Cod,
and ultimately at Plymouth, on the 11th day of December following.
Finding themselves without the jurisdiction of the Virginia Company,
they established a distinct government for themselves.

In the year 1624, the success of this plantation was so favorably
represented in the West of England, that the Rev. John White, a
distinguished minister in Dorchester, prevailed upon some merchants
and others to undertake another settlement in New England. Having
provided a common stock, they sent over several persons to begin a
plantation at Cape Ann, where they were joined by some disaffected
individuals from the Plymouth settlement. This project was soon
abandoned as unprofitable, and a portion of the settlers removed
westward within the territory of Naumkeag, which then included
what is now Manchester. By the intercession and great exertions
of Mr. White, the project of a settlement in that quarter was not
altogether relinqu