TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE The main text of this book is a facsimile reproduction of printed documents from around 1630, and include many printing errors from those original documents. Spelling and punctuation are very inconsistent. These issues have been left unchanged in this etext to maintain the authenticity of the original works. Italic text is denoted by _underscores_. A superscript is denoted by ^x or ^{xx}, for example y^r or w^{ch}. The character ſ (long-form s) has been replaced by the modern s. The anchors for the eight footnotes are denoted by [number]; these Notes have not been moved and can be found before the Index near the end of the book. There is also one other footnote in the book with the anchor [A] on page 53; this footnote has been moved and placed after the eight numbered Notes. Some characters and groups of characters have an overline, similar to a macron. These will display, using Unicode combining diacritical for an overline, on this device as m̅ n̅ o̅ u̅ (m n o and u with overline) c̅o̅ o̅s̅ o̅e̅ m̅o̅ (co os oe and mo with overline) c̅o̅n̅ (con with overline) Some minor text changes to the Introduction and the Index are noted at the end of the book. 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_ [Illustration: (nautical collage)] 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 Introduction