The New England Company of 1649 and John Eliot (Volume 36); The Ledger for the Years 1650-1660 and the Record Book of Meetings Between 1656 and 1686 of the Corporation for the Propagation of the Gospel in New England (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920. Excerpt: ... Puritan circles regarding the New England mission funds, printed the receipt of the shipmaster by whom he transmitted the proceeds of his collection, as well as Eliot's letter. He adds the information that Eliot "did iterate a desire of returning thanks, 27 of 6th, 1654, and again 16 of 6th, 1655." The August letter of 1654 was written two days before one of similar import to the Rev. Jonathan Hanmer. The failure of these, and presumably other, letters to produce results helped to solve the problem of the Commissioners. The Record Books Missionary problems were not the only ones that occupied the attention of the members of the Corporation at their meetings. Other matters of widely varying interest appear in the entries in its earliest account books, which are now in America. One is the Treasurer's Ledger, as made up for the annual examination from the daily cash entries in the Book of Receipts and the Book of Disbursements, for the years from 1650 to 1664. This is now preserved among the archives of the State of New Jersey at Trenton. It crossed the Atlantic before 1688, for in that year John Reading, who may have brought the volume from London, used the blank pages to record various Indentures relating to land in the County of Gloucester, in that state. The New England interest of the volume was recognized by the Rev. J. B. Thompson on February 20, 1890. He showed it to the Rev. Charles A. Briggs, who described it in Scribner's'Magazine for March, 1898, under the title "The Romance of a Cash Book." Dr. Briggs, hoping that means might be arranged to secure its return to the Company in London, carefully concealed the whereabouts of the volume, although this had been stated two years earlier by Governor Ford, to whom Dr. Briggs had communicated the discove...