Note 931 — Chapter VII

Field, Indian Bibliog., nos. 1,202-3; Brinley, i. nos. 414, 415; Palfrey, New England, iv. 256; Haven in Thomas, ii. p. 407; Tyler, Amer. Literature, ii. 141; Hunnewell’s Bibliog. of Charlestown, p. 7. Mr. Henry C. Murphy (Catalogue, no. 1,924) refers to the original MS. of this book as being in the Force collection, and as showing some occasional variations from the printed copy. (Cf. Catalogue of the Prince Collection, p. 49; Carter-Brown, iii. no. 384.) Penhallow had been engaged, during the April preceding the August in which he began his history, on a mission to the Penobscots, the reports of which are in the N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., 1880, p. 90. There is a sketch of him and his family in Ibid., 1878, p. 28. There are many letters of Samuel Penhallow among the Belknap Papers in the Mass. Hist. Society (61. A).