THE

HISTORY OF MASSACHUSETTS.

THE

PROVINCIAL PERIOD.

BY JOHN STETSON BARRY,

MEMBER OF THE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY, AND OF THE NEW ENGLAND
HISTORIO-GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1856, by

JOHN S. BARRY,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

TO

THE HONORABLE

ROBERT CHARLES WINTHROP, LL. D.

PRESIDENT

OF THE

MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY,

THIS SECOND VOLUME OF THE HISTORY OF MASSACHUSETTS, RECORDING