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Stith, William. History of the First Discovery and Settlement of Virginia. Williamsburg, 1747. London, 1753. New York, 1865.

Keith, Sir William. History of Virginia [to 1723]. London, 1738. [Depends chiefly on Beverley.]

B. The Carolinas

Lawson, John. See Bibliography to Book I., Chap. I.

Hewatt [Hewat, Hewitt, Hewit], Alexander. Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia. 2 vols. London, 1779. [1st ed. anonymous.] Philadelphia, 1836. In Carroll, Historical Collections of South Carolina.

C. The Middle Colonies

Smith, Samuel. History of the Colony of Nova-Caesaria, or New Jersey. Burlington, N. J., 1765. Trenton, 1877. [Contains a note on Samuel Smith by Smith, J. J.]

—History of the Quakers in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. [The portion dealing with Pennsylvania in Hazard, Register of Pennsylvania, vols. 6-7.]

Smith, William. History of the Province of New York ... to 1732. London, 1757, 1776. Philadelphia, 1792. Albany, 1814. Paris, 1767. Complete ed. to 1762, New York Hist. Soc. Col. Series I. Vols. 4-5. [Smith's work has provoked much discussion. Cadwallader Colden criticized it at length. See New York Hist. Soc. Colls. Ser. 2, vol. 2, 1849. Fund ser. 1868, 1869. Another critic was Samuel Jones, whose Remarks are in New York Hist. Soc. Colls, vol. 3, 1821. A fair estimate was made by B. F. Butler in an address before the Albany Institute, April, 1830. See also a sketch of Smith in Magazine of Amer. Hist. Apr-June, 1881, by M. L. Delafield.]

D. New England

Prince, Thomas. A Chronological History of New England in the Form of Annals. 2 vols. Boston, 1736-55, 1826, 1852. Vol. 2, as Annals of New England in Mass. Hist. Soc. Colls., Ser. 2. Vol. 7.

Douglass, William. Summary ... of the Planting . . . and Present State of the British Settlements in North America. 2 vols., 1749, 1751.

Backus, Isaac. History of New England with Particular Reference to the . . . Baptists. 3 vols. Boston, 1777, 1784, 1796. West Newton, Mass., 1871.

Hutchinson, Thomas. The History of Massachusetts. 3 vols. Boston and London, 1764-1767-1828. Vols. 1 and II. Boston, 1795.

—Diary and Letters of Thomas Hutchinson with an Account of his Administration. Ed. Hutchinson, P. O. 2 vols. Boston, 1884-86.

The Hutchinson Papers. 2 vols. Albany, 1865. Prince Society. [Not written by Hutchinson but collected by him, and taken from the large collection of his papers preserved in the archives of the Mass. Hist. Society.]

—Collection of Original Papers relative to the History of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay. Boston, 1769. Hosmer, J. K. Life of Thomas Hutchinson. Boston, 1896.

CHAPTER III

THE PURITAN DIVINES, 1620-1720

It is not possible within the compass of the present work to give a full bibliography of the New England divines. It has seemed best, therefore, to give a