text as accurate as possible. It has not always been practicable to make extracts from the latest edition revised by the author, or from original manuscripts of works not printed in the author's lifetime. I have tried, however, in every case to follow an edition sufficiently accurate to serve most of the purposes of a student engaged in careful investigation. The texts chosen I have endeavored, with a few exceptions, to reproduce as closely as ordinary typographical devices would allow. The use of the long "s," the interchange of "u" and "v," "i" and "j," and such manuscript abbreviations as "ye" for "the" and "comon" for "common," have not seemed worth perpetuating. In all other respects the original spelling, capitalization, punctuation, etc., have been followed. Corrections of obvious typographical errors have usually been enclosed in brackets, as have emended readings, whether suggested by myself or by an earlier editor. Footnotes not by the author are also enclosed in brackets. The titles of most selections have, necessarily, been given by the editor; titles in the words of the author are enclosed in quotation marks in the Table of Contents. As the book may be used in mixed classes in secondary schools two brief and unimportant passages have been omitted on the ground of impropriety. These omissions are indicated in the proper places. For kind permission to follow copyrighted reprints I am indebted to G. P. Putnam's Sons, publishers of Conway's edition of the writings of Thomas Paine, Ford's edition of the works of Jefferson, and Lodge's edition of the works of Hamilton; to Doubleday, Page & Co., publishers of Bassett's edition of the writings of William Byrd; to the Library of Princeton University, publishers of Pattee's edition of Freneau; to Mr. Charles Francis Adams, editor, and the Prince Society, publisher, of writings of Thomas Morton and John Cotton; and to Mr. Sidney S. Rider, editor and publisher of Peter Folger's "A Looking Glass for the Times," in the Rhode Island Historical Tracts. I also wish to express my thanks to the Library of Harvard University for the privilege of using, in Wisconsin, three or four rare and much needed volumes. UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN, W. B. C. Dedication of the New English Canaan . "The generall survey of the country" "How the 9. worthies put mine host of Ma-re-Mount into the in- chaunted castle at Plimmouth, and terrified him with the mon- 71 |