The principal authority for Philip’s war is Hubbard’s Present State of New England, being a Narrative of the Troubles with the Indians, 1677.  Church’s Entertaining Passages relating to Philip’s War, published in 1716, and republished in 1865, with notes by Mr. Dexter, is a charming book.  See also Mrs. Rowlandson’s True History, Cambridge, Mass., 1682; Mather’s Brief History of the War, 1676; Drake’s Old Indian Chronicle, Boston, 1836; Gookin’s Historical Collections of the Indians in New England, 1674; and Account of the Doings and Sufferings of the Christian Indians, in Archchaeologia Americana, vol. ii.  Batten’s Journal is the diary of a citizen of Boston, sent to England, and it now in MS. among the Colonial Papers.  Mrs. Mary Pray’s letter (Oct. 20, 1675) is in Mass.  Hist.  Coll., 5th series, vol. i. p. 105.

The great storehouse of information for the Andros period is the Andros Tracts, 3 vols., edited for the Prince Society by W.H.  Whitmore.  See also Sewall’s Diary, Mass.  Hist.  Coll., 5th series, vols. v.—­viii.  Sewall has been appropriately called the Puritan Pepys.  His book is a mirror of the state of society in Massachusetts at the time when it was beginning to be felt that the old theocratic idea had been tried in the balance and found wanting.  There is a wonderful charm in such a book.  It makes one feel as if one had really “been there” and taken part in the homely scenes, full of human interest, which it so naively portrays.  Anne Bradstreet’s works have been edited by J.H.  Ellis, Charlestown, 1867.

For further references and elaborate bibliographical discussions, see Winsor’s Narrative and Critical History of America, vol. iii.; and his Memorial History of Boston, 4 vols., Boston, 1880.  There is a good account of the principal New England writers of the seventeenth century, with illustrative extracts, in Tyler’s History of American Literature, 2 vols., New York, 1878.  For extracts see also the first two volumes of Stedman and Hutchinson’s Library of American Literature, New York, 1888.

In conclusion I would observe that town histories, though seldom written in a philosophical spirit and apt to be quite amorphous in structure, are a mine of wealth for the philosophic student of history.

NOTES: 

[1] Milman, Lat.  Christ. vii. 395.

[2] Gardiner, The Puritan Revolution, p. 12.

[3] Green, History of the English People, iii. 47.

[4] Steele’s Life of Brewster, p. 161.

[5] Gardiner, Puritan Revolution, p. 50.