J.14
Winthrop’s Journal from 1630 to 1644.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 25. no. 28, as above.
WINTHROP,
John.
A Journal of the Transactions and Occurrences in the Settlement of Massachusetts and the other New-England Colonies, from
the year 1630 to 1644: Written by John Winthrop, Esq. First Governor of Massachusetts: And now first published from a corect copy of the original Manuscript . . .
Hartford: Printed by
Elisha Babcock,
M,DCC,XC. [1790.]
F67 .W76
First Edition. 8vo. in fours. 188 leaves, list of corrections and contents on the last leaves.
Sabin 104847.
Evans 23086.
Trumbull 1695.
Half red morocco, with the original morocco label lettered
Winthrops Journal pasted down on the inside cover; initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T. A pencilled note on the end leaf reads:
326. A man & woman hanged for adultery, and this passage is marked where it occurs and in the Contents list. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Jefferson mentions having read this
Journal in his letter to John Adams, December 28, 1812, “
I turned to the passages you refer to in Hutchinson & Winthrop”
; and in the same letter he finds that Nathaniel Morton in his
New Englands Memorial
(q.v.) gives certain details which are not in Hutchinson (q.v.) or Winthrop.
John Winthrop, 1587-1649, a native of Suffolk, England, sailed for America in 1630 on the
Arbella as first Governor of the newly formed self-governing community of Massachusetts Bay. This Journal is an important source
book for the history of the period and remained unpublished until 1790 when it was edited by Noah Webster, junior, and dedicated (from Hartford, July 1790) to the Posterity of John Winthrop.
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15
Williams’s natural and civil History of Vermont.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 25. no. 29, as above.
WILLIAMS,
Samuel.
The Natural and Civil History of Vermont. By Samuel Williams, LL.D. . . . Published according to Act of Congress. Printed at
Walpole, Newhampshire: By
Isaiah Thomas and
David Carlisle, Jun,
MDCCXCIV. [1794.]
F49 .W71
First Edition. 12mo. 208 leaves, engraved map frontispiece; list of Subscribers on 5 pages at the end. The dedication
To the Citizens of the State of Vermont is dated from Rutland, July 16, 1794.
Sabin 104350.
Evans 28094.
Gilman,
Bibliography of Vermont, page
333.
Jefferson refers to this book in a letter to D
r. N. Chapman on the climate of the country, written from Monticello, December 11, 1809: “
. . . Williams, in his history of Vermont, has an essay on the change of climate in Europe, Asia, & Africa; & has very ingeniously
laid history under contribution for materials. Doct
r. Williamson has written on the change of our climate, in one of the early volumes of our Philosophical transactions. both
of these are doubtless known to you . . .
”
Jefferson’s
Notes on Virginia
was one of the books consulted by the author, and references to it occur on pages 179, 200 and 410.
A second edition was published in 1809, a copy of which was offered to Jefferson by Horatio Gates Spafford on behalf of the
author. On February 24, 1815, Spafford wrote from Albany to Jefferson: “My attention is called, by an old man of about 70 years, to a wish of his that 2 volumes of his writings may be submitted
to thy examination. Doct. Williams has written the History of Vermont, in 2 8vo volumes, & very naturally thinks that he has
written very well. He is anxious to have thy opinion of that Work; or at least to have it read by thee. The Doctor writes
& thinks & feels like an American; a ‘Sect’ of which ”
