Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 53843-h.htm or 53843-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/53843/53843-h/53843-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/53843/53843-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/oathsofallegianc00evan Transcriber’s note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Text enclosed by plus signs has been inserted (+inserted+). Text enclosed by equal signs was struck through (=struck through=). A carat character is used to denote superscription. A single character following the carat is superscripted (example: y^e). Multiple superscripted characters are enclosed by curly brackets (example: w^{th}). Some characters might not display in this UTF-8 text version or in the html version. If so, the reader should consult the iso-8859-1 (Latin-1) text file 53843-8.txt or 53843.zip: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/53843/53843-8.txt or http://www.gutenberg.org/files/53843/53843-8.zip or should consult the original page images referred to above. American Antiquarian Society OATHS OF ALLEGIANCE IN COLONIAL NEW ENGLAND by CHARLES EVANS Reprinted from the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society for October, 1921 Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Published by the Society 1922 The Davis Press Worcester, Massachusetts CONTENTS