[668] Winthrop’s Hist. of New England, vol. 1, p. 332. [669] Mass. Hist. Col. Palfrey, Prince, Mather. [670] Ibid. [671] Palfrey, vol. 1, p. 303. [672] Ibid. [673] Hume, Hist. Eng. Mather, Prince. [674] Archæologia Americana, vol. 3, 47, et seq. From this work most of the above facts have been cited. [675] Formerly the “Eagle;” she was a naval vessel, and carried twenty-eight guns. She had been recently bought by the Company. Palfrey. [676] Winthrop’s Hist. of New England. [677] Elliot, vol. 2, pp. 16, 17. [678] The most common orthography is _Arabella_, but later writers almost unanimously reject this spelling, which is founded on the often erring authority of Mather in the Magnalia, and of Josselyn, and accept that of John Winthrop in his Diary, of Johnson in the “Wonder-working Providence,” and of Dudley’s Epistles. All of these men were personally intimate with Mrs. Johnson, and they must have known her name. See Winthrop, p. 1, note. [679] Mather, Winthrop, Palfrey, Elliot, Hutchinson, etc., etc. [680] Hist. of the Result of the American Colonies, vol. 1, p. 58. [681] Winthrop’s Diary. [682] This address is said to have been drawn by Mr. White. Palfrey. [683] Elliot. [684] Elliot. [685] Winthrop’s Diary, p. 31. [686] Ibid. [687] Ibid., Palfrey, Bancroft. [688] Winthrop’s Journal, p. 32. [689] Dudley’s letter to the countess of Lincoln, cited in Hutchinson. [690] Hubbard, Mass. Col. Rec., Archæol. Am. [691] Ibid. [692] Bancroft, vol. 1, p. 350. [693] Hubbard, p. 133. [694] Ibid. Prince, Winthrop. [695] Ibid. [696] Magnalia, vol. 1, p. 77. [697] Winthrop, vol. 1, p. 34. [698] Palfrey, Bancroft, Archæol. Am. [699] Ibid. Mass. Hist. Col. [700] Dudley’s Letter to the Countess of Lincoln. Prince’s Chronology. [701] Winthrop’s Hist. of New England. Hutchinson. [702] Ibid. [703] Shawmut, or the Settlement of Boston, p. 2. [704] Drake’s Hist. of Boston. [705] Ibid. Elliot. [706] Drake’s Hist. of Boston. Elliot. [707] “Blackstone retained nothing in America of his ministerial character but his canonical coat. He devoted himself to the cultivation of the six or seven acres of land which he retained in his possession, and planted, it is said, the first orchard of apple-trees in New England. He left Boston because he was annoyed by its strict sectarian laws. Banishing himself again to the wilderness, he settled in a place now called Cumberland, on the banks of the Pawtucket river. Here he built a house in the midst of a park, planted an orchard near it, and divided his time between study and labor. He called his retreat “Study Hill,” and resided there until his death in May, 1675.