The history and antiquities of Boston .. . iomas Georges. — Ship blown up in the Harbor. — Capt. Underbill Banished. — Mian-tonimo. — Hugh Bewit Banished. — Ships Built. — ISIission to England. — To Rhode Island. —Hanserd Knollys. March, MANY of the people who had disturbed the peaceof Boston by daring to express their opinions, were,by the beginning of the year 1G39, gone out of itsjurisdiction, so that tranquillity was in a measurerestored, and it was a year of general quiet. It isa noted year, however, on several printing press was established at Cam-bridge. The first thing print
The history and antiquities of Boston .. . iomas Georges. — Ship blown up in the Harbor. — Capt. Underbill Banished. — Mian-tonimo. — Hugh Bewit Banished. — Ships Built. — ISIission to England. — To Rhode Island. —Hanserd Knollys. March, MANY of the people who had disturbed the peaceof Boston by daring to express their opinions, were,by the beginning of the year 1G39, gone out of itsjurisdiction, so that tranquillity was in a measurerestored, and it was a year of general quiet. It isa noted year, however, on several printing press was established at Cam-bridge. The first thing printed was the FreemansOath, the next was an Almanack for New England,made by Captain William Peirce, the mariner,the next was the Psalms, newly turned intometer.! In the course of the year there was a good deal said about erectinga new Meeting-house. The old one was far from being suitable, orcapable of accommodating the inhabitants. This occasioned muchdifficulty ; not that the people differed about the necessity of having a. EARLY PRINTING PRESS. * In 1640, the General Court granted theincome of the Ferry between Boston andCharlestown as a perpetual revenue to the Col-leii;e ; and tlie iMaji;istrates with the Ministers(if the Colony chose the Rev. Henry Dunster to 1)0 the President of their New HarvardCollege.—Magnalia, iv. 127. f Mr. Lechford, writing of New England in1642, having just left Boston, says, MasterDunster, at Cambridge, had divers young schol-ars there under him, to the number of almosttwenty. — Plain Dealing, or News from NewEngland, p. 37. I Winthrops Journal, i. 289. — The print-ng-house was begun by one Daye, at thecharge of Mr. [Joseph] Glover, who died on seahitherward. — llnd. See Thomas, Hist. Print-ing, i. 227. Quincy, Hist. H. U., i. Encyclop. of Printers and Printing,586, &c. — The Psalm-book newly turnedinto meter was printed in 1640. Copies ofit are to be met with, at this day, only in the liliraries of the curi
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