nowned origin long before the days of Col. Pickering 

 and his worth}- associates. The first page of the first 

 volume of " The liecords of the Governor and Company 

 of the Massachusetts Bay in New England " bears a 

 memorandum supposed to be in the hand-writing of Mr. 

 Washborne, the first secretary of the Company, which is 

 pregnant Avith and significant of a great event in the 

 world's history. Its date is Marcli IG, (the year un- 

 known), probably 1628. If so, Endicott had not sailed. 

 Winthrop would not depart for two years. 



Without an}'' verbiage or sentimentality in a matter of 

 fact paper, it reveals without the need of comment or 

 concordance what the company thought were prime ob- 

 jects and necessities in the great scheme of emigration. 



I quote from the memorandum : 



To p7'ovide to seMdfor Neive England : 

 Ministers ; 

 Patient vnder seale : 

 A seale ; 

 Wheate, rye, barly, oates, a hhed. of ech in the 



eare : 

 benes, ^jease ; 

 Stones of all sorts of f mites, as jyeaches, 2;^i(?ns, 



filberts, cherries ; 

 Peare, aple, quince kernells, pomerjranats ; 

 Saffron heads : 



Liquorice seed, rootes sent: &■ Madder routes ; 

 Potatoes ; 

 Hoprootes ; 

 Hempseede ; 



Flaxeseede, aijenst wynter\ 

 Connys y 



Currant plants : 

 Tame Turheys : » 



