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PUBLICATIONS OF
THE ESSEX BOOK AND PRINT CLUB
No. I
NEW-ENGLANDS
PLANTATION
&c.
New-Englands
PLANTATION
WITH
The Sea Journal and
Other Writings
By Rev. Francis Higginson
First Minister of the Plantation at Salem
in the Massachusetts Bay Colony
The Essex Book and Print Club
SALEM MASSACHUSETTS
1908
ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FIVE COPIES
PRINTED AT THE RIVERSIDE PRESS
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS
FOR THE ESSEX BOOK
AND PRINT
CLUB
[Pg 5]
Introduction
“New-EnglandsPlantation,”a tract published inLondon early in 1630,contains the earliestprinted account of thecolony established byEndecott in 1628, at Neihum-kek, nowSalem. A description of the natural conditionssurrounding the new settlement isalso preserved, the narrative presenting,in the quaint phrase of the original, “ashort and true description of the commoditiesand discommodities of thatcountrey.” The tract was written by theReverend Francis Higginson, who came