Guide to the manuscript materials for the history of the United States to 1783, in the British Museum, in minor London archives, and in the libraries of Oxford and Cambridge / by Charles M. Andrews and Frances G. Davenport.

  • Charles McLean Andrews
Date:
1908
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Credit: Guide to the manuscript materials for the history of the United States to 1783, in the British Museum, in minor London archives, and in the libraries of Oxford and Cambridge / by Charles M. Andrews and Frances G. Davenport. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    758. Various Notes and Observations on the Bermudas, by N. Butler. (F. 3 begins “A Dialogical Discourse concerning Marine Affairs between the High Admiral and a Captaine at Sea. Represented in Six Dialogues or Discourses .... Collected and Penned by Captain Nathaniel Butler, Anno 1634/’ Then follows a diary “ of my personal employment ”, Feb¬ ruary 10, 1639, to May, 1640. Various other notes complete the manuscript.) 793 or 894. Small manuscript volume entitled: “ Mercurius Americanus. A Briefe Journall or A Succinct and True Relation of the most Remarkable Passages observed in that voyage undertaken by Captaine William Jackson to the Western Indies or Continent of America.” 1642. 856. Letter-book of Commissions, royal Letters, etc. of Charles II. f. 37 is to [the council of Jamaica] notifying it of the appointment of Lord Windsor as governor in Col. Doyley’s place, July 20, 1661. (Cal. Col. 1661-1665, §135.) f. 37b is to the Committee of the East India Co. to carry out an experiment in Jamaica as to how well the spices and plants of the East Indies might agree in that island. August 20, 1661. 857. f. 93. Letter from Ed. Greene to his uncle, John Green, glassmaker in London, from “ on board their Majestie’s ship The Loyall Mer¬ chant in Antigua ”. About 1690-1692. 922. f. 90. Letter from Master Welles from New England to his people in Tarling in Essex. Charles Town, 1633. f. 94. Letter from James Cole to his wife. June 30, 1634. (Dated from Ipswich, England, speaking of his creditors, his misery and his children and bidding her not to ask him to return. Ff. 96-101, letters relating to the same subject to his wife and parents. That of November 29, 1634, says “ The Lord’s desier is to employ me for New England.” F. 104 is from Nehemiah Wallington to Cole in New England, 1642, and f. 107 from Cole to Wallington, dated “Hertford in Queneticote”, and f. 173 from Wallington to Cole. Wars in England and the sins of the times.) ff. ic>9-ii5b. Part of letter from Anthony Thacher to his brother Peter. New England, 1635. (Account of shipwreck, going to Marblehead, and his deliverance from the “deapes of the sea”.) ff. 144^145. Letter from Edward Browne to Neh. Wallington, Ips¬ wich, New England, December, 1644, describing the conditions there. ff. I45b-i47b. From Wallington to Browne, 1645, bewailing the times in England. 978. Journal, by some one not named, of voyage to the Mediterranean and home, and of second voyage to Antigua on board the Turkey Merchant. (On f. 50 are entries of his leaving for Antigua, his arrival there, and vari¬ ous accounts of sugar received, etc., to f. 56. F. 64, reversing the book, is his private barter account at Antigua. Of value for the lists of commodi¬ ties purchased at various places in the West Indies and their prices.) 1008. f. 335. Letter from J. Clayton to [Dr. E. Borlase], James Citty, April 24, 1684, giving account of Virginia and stating that he had received orders to preach before the general assembly the following Sunday.