History of the Town of Dorchester, Massachusetts

ISBN: 9781330867679 出版年：2018 页码：689 Dorchester Antiquarian Historical Society Forgotten Books

Massachusetts Bay, at the settlement in 1629, included only the territory between Nahant and Point Alderton. See Endicott's instructions in Hazard, Vol. 1, p. 260. Richard Mather's Journal — the original copy of the latter production, in the hand-writing of the author, having been accidentally discovered among some papers formerly belong ing to Mr. Blake. In furtherance of its purpose, the Society appointed a Committee to arrange and connect all such facts as they possess into a methodical History of the Town, inter spersed with such comments and remarks as would add to the interest of the subject.