Excerpt from Life and Letters of John Winthrop, Vol. 1: Governor of the Massachusetts-Bay Company at Their Emigration to New England, 1630I have also been indebted to charles francis winthrop, Esq., of New York, to H. G. Somerby, Esq., and to W. H. Whitmore, Esq., for papers and references, and to Dr. John appleton, the Assistant Librarian of the Massachusetts Historical Society, for the preparation of the autographs and seals in the Appendix.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.