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them by order of the Prefident, &c. 63 Then went home; 

 itaid not long there before he return'd to Bq/ion^ where 

 Capt. Scottaway waited for his coming, that he might have 

 the determination of the Government of Bofton to carry 

 home with him; and it being the time of the Small Pox 65 

 there (and Maj Church not having had it) taking up his 

 Lodging near the Court-houfe, 60 took the firft opportunity 

 [65] to inform thofe Gentlemen of the Court his bufinefs; 

 who faid they were very bufy in fending home Sir Ed- 

 mund, the Ship being ready to Sail. 67 The faid Maj. 



63 " Prefident Danforth, by requiring 

 of" them provifions for a fupply of the 

 military, had brought them into great 

 diftrefs." [Williamibn's Hifi. Me. i: 

 618-] 



rA As, on the 6th Feb., he had been 

 waiting in Bofton three weeks, the date 

 of his "returning" to that city, here 

 mentioned, muft have been about Wed* 

 nefday, 16 Jan,, i6|^. 



65 The fmall-pox raged in Bolton 

 during the fpring and fummer of 1690; 

 and this teltimony of Church's mows 

 that its ravages had commenced as 

 early as January, l6§|> Samuel 

 Green, jr., the printer, died, after an 

 illnefs of three days with it, in July, 

 1690; and his wife followed him a few 

 days after. In Auguft, 1690, a ion of 

 Rev. John Cotton wrote to his father, 

 "The fmall-pox is as bad as ever." 

 [Thomas's Hifi. Printing, i : 282.] 



The firft Bofton Court Houfe, or 

 Town Houfe, was begun to be built 

 about 1657. I' ft°° u where the "old 

 State Houfe" now ftands, in the head 



of State Street, and was burned in the 

 great fire of 171 1, being built of wood. 

 [Drake's Hiji. Bqfi. i : 350.] 



61 The exacT; date of the fhipping of 

 Andros for England feems to have been 

 Angularly unnoted in the records of 

 tbe time; and is, perhaps, more nearly 

 determined by what Church fays here 

 than in any other way. Hutchinfon 

 fays [////?. Mafs. i: 349], "Tbe firft 

 opportunity (the beginning of Febru- 

 ary) after the arrival of the King's 

 order, he, with Mr. Dudley and feveral 

 others, embarked for England." Mr. 

 Drake {Hiji. Boft. i : 486] fays, " Some 

 time in the winter following [that of 

 i6|^], an order was received from 

 their Majefties to fend the prifoners 

 over thence; and they were accord- 

 ingly fent in the firft fhip bound to that 

 country." Tbe author of the Life of 

 Andros {Governors of Mafs. Bay, 

 419] fays, "In February, 1690, they 

 were fent home to England." Elliott 

 [New-Eng. Hift. i: 3S0] fays, "In 

 February, 1689, with Dudley and fome 



