Winthrop's Journal, History of New England, 1630-1649 (ed. Hosmer, 1908)

Read in the archive.org full text (vol. 2 at https://archive.org/details/winthropsjournal02wint). Used for Jane Hawkins (“the midwife, one Hawkins’s wife, a rank familist also,” 1:266-268; “had much familiarity with the devil in England, when she dwelt at St. Ives,” 2:8), for Rev. Nathaniel Rogers’s arrival in November 1636, and for Rev. William Tompson of Braintree, whose wife in 1643 left behind “a company of small children” (2:94).

Also for Jane Hawkins: Mary Dyer’s stillborn child of 17 Oct 1637 was “viewed of none but Mrs. Hutchinson and the midwife, one Hawkins’s wife”; examined, Jane “at first … confessed only, that the head was defective and misplaced”; and the report “that she used to give young women oil of mandrakes and other stuff to cause conception” (1:266-268). For the Briscoes: in June 1642 a young church member named Briscoe, who “kept with his father, a godly poor man,” went to load a boat for wages against his father’s wish and “fell into the water and was drowned” (2:61-62); Winthrop calls him Nathaniel, but he was William Briscoe’s son Daniel (NEHGR 178:25).

Also the arrival of the Abigail, October 1635, after ten weeks at sea, “infected also with the small pox”; Edmund Freeman and his family were aboard.

Also for the Feakes and Captain Underhill (October 2026, research/mcmillan/Frost_Underhill_Bowne_Feake.md): the Lyon, “William Peirce master, arrived at Natascot” on 2 Nov 1631: “There came in her the governor’s wife, his eldest son, and his wife, and others of his children” (1:69-70); 27 Jan 1631/2, on the Charles above Watertown, a “high pointed rock … which they called Mount Feake, from one Robert Feake, who had married the governor’s daughter-in-law” (1:73); and Capt. John Underhill’s confession in Boston church, 3 Sept 1640: “He came in his worst clothes (being accustomed to take great pride in his bravery and neatness) without a band, in a foul linen cap pulled close to his eyes; and standing upon a form, he did, with many deep sighs and abundance of tears, lay open his wicked course, his adultery, his hypocrisy, his persecution of God’s people here, and especially his pride” (2:12-13).