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l, _John Winthrop_ (1891, _id._); A. Steele, _Elder Brewster_ (1857); L. G. Jones, _Samuel Gorton_ (1896); A. Gorton, _The Life and Times of Samuel Gorton_ (1907); O. S. Straus, _Roger Williams_ (1894); M. E. Hall, _Roger Williams_ (1917); T. W. Bicknell, _Story of Dr. John Clarke_ (1915); J. M. Taylor, _Roger Ludlow_ (1900); J. K. Hosmer, _Young Sir Harry Vane_ (1888); _A Memoir of Sir John Leverett, Knt._ (1856); and in _American Biography_, 10 vols., are lives of John Mason by G. E. Ellis, Roger Williams by William Gammell, Samuel Gorton by John M. Mackie, and Anne Hutchinson by G. E. Ellis, though none of them is particularly satisfactory. The original sources for the period are: the _Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial_, vols. i, ii (1908-1910); _The Calendar of State Papers, Colonial_, vols. i-viii, 1574-1692 (1860-1901); and the colonial records of Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire. Collections of narratives and letters may be found in the publications of the Prince Society [C. H. Bell, _John Wheelwright and his Writings_ (1876); C. F. Adams, _Morton's New England Canaan_ (1883); C. W. Tuttle, _Capt. John Mason_ (1887); J. P. Baxter, _Sir Ferdinando Gorges_, 3 vols. (1890); C. F. Adams, _Antinomianism in the Colony of Massachusetts Bay_ (1894); R. N. Toppan, _Edward Randolph_, 7 vols. (1898-1909, last two volumes edited by A. T. S. Goodrick)]; and in the _Original Narratives of Early American History_ [W. T. Davis, _Bradford's History of Plymouth Plantation_ (1908); J. K. Hosmer, _Winthrop's Journal_, 2 vols. (1908); J. F. Jameson, _Johnson's Wonder-Working Providence of Sion's Saviour in New England_ (1911); C. H. Lincoln, _Narratives of the Indian Wars_ (1913); G. L. Burr, _Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases_ (1914); C. M. Andrews, _Narratives of the Insurrections_ (1915)]. A sumptuous edition of Bradford's history has been edited for the Massachusetts Historical Society, by W. C. Ford, 2 vols. (1915). S. Sewall's _Diary_, 3 vols. (Mass. Hist. Soc. _Coll._, 5th series, 1878-1882) and Cotton Mather's _Magnalia_, 2 vols. (1853) are important. W. Walker, _The Creeds and Platforms of Congregationalism_ (1893) is of great value. C. W. Sawyer, _Firearms in American History_ (1910), has an excellent chapter on firearms in colonial times. The articles on _Boston_, _New England_, _Massachusetts_, _Plymouth_, _Friends_ (_Society of_), etc., in _The Encyclopaedia Britannica_, 11th
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