ii, 250-271. Reprinted with permission of the Society.

[39:2] Massachusetts Archives, xxxvi, p. 150.

[40:1] Massachusetts Colony Records, ii, p. 122.

[40:2] _Ibid._, vol. iv, pt. ii, p. 439; Massachusetts Archives, cvii,
pp. 160-161.

[40:3] See, for example, Massachusetts Colony Records, v, 79; Green,
"Groton During the Indian Wars," p. 39; L. K. Mathews, "Expansion of New
England," p. 58.

[40:4] Massachusetts Archives, lxviii, pp. 174-176.

[40:5] Osgood, "American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century," i, p.
501, and citations: cf. Publications of this Society, xii, pp. 38-39.

[41:1] Hening, "Statutes at Large," iii, p. 204: cf. 1 Massachusetts
Historical Collections, v, p. 129, for influence of the example of the
New England town. On Virginia frontier conditions see Alvord and
Bidgood, "First Explorations of the Trans-Allegheny Region," pp. 23-34,
93-95. P. A. Bruce, "Institutional History of Virginia," ii, p. 97,
discusses frontier defense in the seventeenth century. [See chapter iii,
_post_.]

[42:1] Massachusetts Archives, lxx, 240; Massachusetts Province Laws, i,
pp. 194, 293.

[42:2] In a petition (read March 3, 1692-3) of settlers "in Sundry Farms
granted in those Remote Lands Scituate and Lyeing between Sudbury,
Concord, Marlbury, Natick and Sherburne & Westerly is the Wilderness,"
the petitioners ask easement of taxes and extension into the Natick
region in order to have means to provide for the worship of God, and
say:

"Wee are not Ignorant that by reason of the present Distressed Condition
of those that dwell in these Frontier Towns, divers are meditating to
remove themselves into such places where they have not hitherto been
conserned in the present Warr and desolation thereby made, as also that
thereby they may be freed from that great burthen of public taxes
necessarily accruing thereby, Some haveing already removed themselves.
Butt knowing for our parts that wee cannot run from the hand of a
Jealous God, doe account it our duty to take such Measures as may inable
us to the performance of that duty wee owe to God, the King, & our
Familyes" (Massachusetts Archives, cxiii, p. 1).

[42:3] In a petition of 1658 Andover speaks of itself as "a remote
upland plantation" (Massachusetts Archives, cxii, p. 99).

[42:4] Massachusetts Province Laws, i, p. 402.

[43:1] Convenient maps of settlement, 1660-1700, are in E. Channing,
"History of the United States," i, pp. 510-511, ii, end; Avery, "H