OR,

- THE ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY

OF

NEW-ENGLAND,

FROM ITS FIRST PLANTING, IN THE YEAR 1620, UNTO THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1698.

IN SEVEN BOOKS.

BY THE

REVEREND AND LEARNED COTTON MATHER, D.D. F. R. S.

AND PASTOR OF THE NORTH CHURCH IN BOSTON, NEW-ENGLAND.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOLUME I.

WITH

AN INTRODUCTION AND OCCASIONAL NOTES,

BY THE REV. THOMAS ROBBINS, D. D.

AND

TRANSLATIONS OF THE HEBREW, GREEK, AND LATIN QUOTATIONS

BY LUCIUS F. ROBINSON, LL. B.

HARTFORD:

SILAS ANDRUS & SON.

ENTERED, ACCORDING TO ACT OF CONGRESS, IN THE YEAR 1852, BY

SILAS ANDRUS & SON,

IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT COURT OF CONNECTICUT.

FOUNDRY OF SILAS ANDRUS AND SON.

W. C. Armstrong, Typographer.

W. S. WILLIAMS, PRINTER,

HARTFORD.

[SO MIGHTY WAS THE WORK TO FOUND CHRIST'S EMPIRE HERE.]

HARTFORD:

SILAS ANDRUS & SON.