HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION. 



there was none. In Massachusetts, there were fifty-seven. 

 In Rhode Island, there was none. In Connecticut, there 

 were twenty-one. 



These, with their pastors, — so far as known, — at the 

 breaking-out of the war, were the following; arranged in 

 the order of their formation : — 



Plymouth (1620) John Cotton, Jr. 



Salem (1629) John Higginson. 



Boston, First Church (1630) .... James Allen. 



Windsor (1630) Nathaniel Chauneey. 



Watertown (1630) John Sherman. 



1 / /- x I J onn Eliot. 



Roxbury (1632) { „ , ^ „ , 



y v ' \ Samuel Danforth. 



Lynn (1632) Samuel Whiting. 



Duxbury (1632) John Holmes. 



Marshfield (1632) Samuel Arnold. 



Charlestown (1632) Thomas Shepard. 



Hartford (1633) Joseph Haynes. 



Ipswich (1634) Thomas Cobbet. 



Newbury (1635) Thomas Parker. 



Hingham (1635) Peter Hobart. 



Weymouth (1635) Samuel Torrey. 



Cambridge (1636) Urian Oakes. 



t Edward Bulkley. 



Concord (1636) < T , _ , 



v 3J (Joseph Estabrook. 



Dorchester (1636) Josiah Flint. 



Springfield (1637) Pelatiah Glover. 



Taunton (1637) George Shove. 



Sandwich (163S) John Smith. 



Hampton (163S) Seaborn Cotton. 



Dover (163S) . ■ John Reyner, Jr. 



