OF THE

MASSACHUSETTS

HISTORICAL SOCIETY,

For the Year 1794.

VOL. III.

BOSTON :

PRINTED IN THE YEAR 1794.

RE-PRINTED BY MUNROE & FRANCIS, NO. 4 CORNHILL,

Printers to the Massachusetts Historical Society.

1810.

CONTENTS.

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Page

DESCRIPTION of Middleborough

1

Bill of Mortality in Hartford, with Remark: Geographical and

Historical

A Topographical Description of York

6

Appendix, relative to Agamenticus

11

A Topographical Description of Barnstable

12

Description of Holliston

18

Extract from a Manuscript Journal of a Gentleman belonging to

the Army of General St. Clair

21

Governour Bradford's Letter Book

27

A Descriptive and Historical Account of New England in verse.

By Gov. Bradford

77

1 Topographical Description of the County of Prince George, in

Virginia

85

Mellen's Remarks on Mr. Webster's Calculations on Lives 92

Mr. Webster's Reply to Mr. Mellen's Remarks

94

Miscellaneous Remasks and Observations on Nova Scotia, New

Brunswick, and Cape Breton

ibid.

Road from Hali fax to the Gulf of St. Lawrence

101

Governours of Nova Scotia from 1720

ibid.

Description of the Atherine

102

Account of the Burning of Fairfield, in July, 1779

103

An Original Letter from Governour Shirley to the Board of

Trade, respecting Fort Dummer, 1748

106

Two original Letters from Dr. Benjamin Franklin, to the Hon.

Thomas Cushing, Esq. Speaker of the House of Representa-

tives, of Massachusetts, 1774

109

A Topographical Description of Wellfleet

117

An Original Letter from Dr. Increase Mather, to Governour

Dudley, 1708

126

An Original Letter from Dr. Cotton Mather, to Governour

Dudley, 1708

128