ments, or aid: to Benjamin Peirce, Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in the University, for placing at his disposal a collection of papers made by his late father; to the Rev. Samuel Sewall of Burlington, for permitting the free use of the curious and graphic diaries of his ancestor, the Hon. Chief Justice Sewall; to John Belknap, Esq., for a like permission to use a manuscript collection, made by his father, the late Rev. Jeremy Belknap, D. D. To the Hon. John Davis, James Savage, Nathaniel G. Snelling, the late and lamented John Farmer, and Alden Bradford, Esquires, and to the Rev. Joseph B. Felt, the Author is under obligations for occasional assistance in difficulties, which their intimate acquaintance with the early history of Massachusetts peculiarly qualified them to resolve.
The benefit which all works printed at the University press derive from the taste, judgment, and assiduous fidelity of its superintendent, Charles Folsom, Esq., is too generally known and appreciated to need to be here acknowledged. But that gentleman's long and intimate acquaintance with the concerns of the University, and the deep interest he takes in every thing affecting its character and prosperity, have led him to bestow on the details of this work an earnest attention and solicitude, which have largely contributed to its correctness, and created a sense of obliga-
