First part of a projected work announced in a prospectus* to be issued in ten numbers. Not included in the bibliographies of the author, though the whole work is noted as existing in ms, at the time of the author's death. Contains biographies of 25 graduates, 1642-1647: Benjamin Woodbridge, George Downing, John Bulkley, William Hubbard, Samuel Bellingham, John Wilson, Henry Saltonstall, Tobias Barnard, Nathaniel Brewster, John Jones, Samuel Mather, Samuel Danforth, John Allin, John Oliver, Jeremiah Holland, William Ames, John Russell, Samuel Stow, James Ward, Robert Johnson, John Alcock, John Brock, George Stirk, Nathaniel White, Jonathan Mitchel (incomplete)

The same material is contained verbatim in the Collections of the New Hampshire historical society, v. 4, 1834, p. [39]-83, with the exception of the last biography, which is omitted. Most of the biographies are included also, in different form, in the American quarterly register, v. 8, p. 129-143 (Memoirs of ministers) the sketch of Mitchel being complete. cf. Collections of the New Hampshire historical society, v. 6, 1850, p. 33-51; American quarterly register, v. 11, p. [229]-241; New England hist. & gen. reg., v. 1, 1847, p. [9]-20; Letter from Harvard univ. Library, June 26, 1915

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