“He was a man of a kind and benevolent heart; and when he went to Providence to preach, as he did occasionally, notwithstanding his disagreement in opinion with Roger Williams, he would carry with him some beautiful apples as a present to the children, who had never seen such fruit before. Indeed, the kind called Yellow Sweetings were first produced in his orchard; and the older inhabitants, who had seen apples in England, had never before seen that sort.” Shawmut, or the Settlement of Boston, p. 27. [708] Elliot, vol. 1, p. 152. [709] Bancroft, p. 359. Palfrey, vol. 1, p. 313. [710] Hutchinson, Prince, Hubbard. [711] Ibid. Charlestown Records. [712] Mass. Col. Rec., Bancroft. [713] Bancroft, Story, Palfrey. See the Charter, in Massachusetts Hist. Col. [714] Winthrop, Hutchinson, Hubbard. [715] See chap. 19, pp. 245 et seq. [716] Bradford, Winthrop, Hubbard. [717] On the 19th of Oct. [718] Winthrop, Hutchinson. [719] See the charter. [720] Bancroft, vol. 1, p. 359. [721] Ibid. [722] Ibid., p. 360. [723] Bancroft, vol. 1, p. 360. [724] Bancroft, vol. 1, pp. 360, 361. [725] Uhden’s New Eng. Theocracy, p. 68. Dexter’s Congregationalism. [726] Ibid., p. 71. [727] Ibid., Bancroft. [728] Ibid. Vide Cambridge Platform. [729] Vide the Cambridge Platform, 1648. “This Confession of Faith belongs, indeed, to a later period, but it expresses throughout the principles of the early colonists unchanged.” Uhden, p. 68. [730] Wilson’s Pilgrim Fathers, pp. 487, 488. [731] Winthrop’s Journal. [732] Elliott, vol. 1, pp. 155, 156. [733] Longfellow’s Courtship of Miles Standish. See, also, Banvard and Thatcher. [734] Elliot, vol. 1, p. 154. Winthrop, Bradford, Prince. [735] Ibid., p. 68. Banvard, Thatcher, Morton. [736] Elliott, vol. 1, p. 68. Banvard, Thatcher, Morton. This was in 1630. [737] Winthrop’s Journal. [738] Palfrey, vol. 1, p. 329. [739] Ibid. [740] Bradford, p. 294. [741] Winthrop’s Journal. [742] Bradford, p. 295. [743] Ibid. [744] Winthrop’s Journal. [745] Palfrey, vol. 1, p. 330. [746] Elliot, vol. 1, p. 155. [747] Magnalia, vol. 1, p. 103. [748] Ibid., p. 97. [749] Orations, N. Y., 1855. [750] Winthrop’s Hist., vol. 1, p. 97. [751] Ibid., p. 76. [752] Eliot spent the first years of his transatlantic life as a preacher at Roxbury. Here he was engaged with Weld and Richard Mather in compiling the first book published in New England—“The Psalms in Metre”—which appeared in 1640. In 1645, he became deeply interested in the work of evangelizing the Indians, “those ruins of mankind.” Into this labor he threw his whole heart; and he never relinquished it until God called him home; for he believed with the psalmist, that Jehovah was perpetually saying, “Ask of me, and I will give thee the heathen for thine inheritance.”