Made during the years 1638, 1663. By JOHN JOSSELYN, Gent. Boston: WILLIAM VEAZIE. MDCCCLXV. Two Hundred and Fifty Copies printed, Small Quarto. Riverside, Cambridge : Printed by H. O. Houghton & Co....

The work published by Josselyn in 1672, entitled “New England’s Rarities discovered,” which has been reprinted in a similar form, and as a companion volume to the present, contains a full and detailed account of the family of the author, with many curious facts relating to the personal history of this early explorer of New England; but it has been thought expedient to prefix to his narrative a genealogical chart of the family, copied from a paper among the Harleian MSS. in the British Museum, th

Anno Dom. 1638. April the 26th being Thursday , I came to Gravesend and went aboard the New Supply , alias , the Nicholas of London , a Ship of good force, of 300 Tuns burden, carrying 20 Sacre and Minion, man’d with 48 Sailers, the Master Robert Taylor , the Merchant or undertaker Mr. Edward Tinge , with 164 Passengers men, women and children. [p. 2.] At Gravesend I began my Journal, from whence we departed on the 26. of April , about Six of the clock at night, and went down into the Hope . The

I have heard of a certain Merchant in the west of England , who after many great losses, walking upon the Sea-bank in a calm Sun-shining day; observing the smoothness of the Sea, coming in with a chequered or dimpled wave: Ah (quoth he) thou flattering Element, many a time hast thou inticed me to throw my self and my fortunes into thy Arms; but thou hast hitherto proved treacherous; thinking to find thee a Mother of encrease, I have found thee to be the Mother of mischief and wickedness; yea the

The Terrestrial World is by our learned Geographers divided into four parts , Europe, Asia, Africa and America so named from Americus Vespucius the Florentine, Seven years after Columbus; although Columbus and Cabota deserved rather the honour of being Godfathers to it: notwithstanding by this name it is now known to us, but was utterly unknown to the Ancient Europeans before their times, I will not say to the Africans and Asians , for Plato in his Timeus relateth of a great Island called Atlant