New-Englands | Plantation. | or, | A Short and True | Description of the | Commodities and | Discommodities | of that Countrey. | Written by Mr. Higgeson, a reuerend Diuine | now there resident. | Whereunto is added a Letter, sent by Mr. Graues | an enginere, out of New England, | The Third Edition, enlarged. | [Printer’s ornament] | London. | Printed by T. and R. Cotes, for Michael Sparke, dwelling | at the Signe of the Blue Bible in Greene-Arbor, 1630. | Small 4to. 23 numbered pages. Collation: Title (1), reverse, To the Reader, signed M. S. (2); New-Englands Plantation (3-17); [Ornament] A Letter sent from New-England, by Master Graues, engynere now there resident (18-19); A Catalogue of such needfull things as euery Planter doth or ought to Prouide to go to New-England, etc. (20-21); The names of the most remarkable places in New-England (22-23); ends “Fjnjs.” Signatures, A7; 1 leaf, B-D in 4s. Copies of the several editions are preserved in the following libraries: _First Edition._ Harvard University Library. Essex Institute Library, Salem, Mass. (This copy has title-page and last leaf in fac-simile.) John Carter Brown Library, Providence, R. I. New York Public Library (Lenox Library). New York State Library, Albany, N. Y. Library of Congress. Library of E. D. Church, Brooklyn, N. Y. Library of a Collector, Brooklyn, N. Y. Library of Frederick R. Halsey, New York City. Library of Edward E. Ayer, Chicago, Ill. _Second Edition._ Boston Public Library. New York Public Library (Lenox Library). Library of E. D. Church, Brooklyn, N. Y. Library of a Collector, Brooklyn, N. Y. Library of Henry Huth, London, Eng. _Third Edition._ Boston Public Library. Massachusetts Historical Society Library. John Carter Brown Library, Providence, R. I. New York Public Library (Lenox Library). Philadelphia Library Company. (This copy has title-page of the first edition bound with text of the third edition.) British Museum Library. Library of Edward E. Ayer, Chicago, Ill. In the following pages the first edition of “New-Englands Plantation” is reproduced in fac-simile from a copy in the John Carter Brown Library, at Providence, R. I., through the courtesy of the Librarian, Mr. George Parker Winship. The third edition also has been reprinted from a copy in the library of the Massachusetts Historical Society for purposes of comparison and to preserve the additional matter that it contains. The account of the voyage to Neihum-kek and other writings of Higginson are from the manuscript formerly in the possession of Governor Hutchinson and now preserved by the Massachusetts Historical Society. CONTENTS PAGE “NEW-ENGLANDS PLANTATION,” by Rev. _Francis Higginson_, London, 1630. Fac-simile of the first edition 15 “GENERALL CONSIDERACONS” for the planting of New England 39