This is a rare book there are only six of these printed

EPISODES OF NEW ENGLAND HISTORY by Charles Francis ADAMS 

Vol 1 

The settlement of Boston Bay

The ANTINOMIAN controversy 

Privately printed Cambridge 1883 

This is hard cover with three quarters leather, with marble boards and marbled pastedowns, front board / spine piece unattached, otherwise very good 

Some of the chapters are:

A new found Golgotha 

The Argonauts of Boston Bay

Squanto's story

Weston's rude fellows

The Wessagusset hanging 

The smoking flax blood quenched.....

Nantasket and Thompson's island

Morton's arrest

Boston founded

The first assault on King Charles charter

The assault renewed....

Please email me any questions, thank you

Charles Francis Adams Sr. (August 18, 1807 – November 21, 1886) was an American historical editor, politician and diplomat.[1] He was a son of President John Quincy Adams and grandson of President John Adams, of whom he wrote a major biography.

Adams served in the Massachusetts State Senate, before running unsuccessfully as vice-presidential candidate for the Free Soil Party in the election of 1848 on a ticket with former President Martin Van Buren. During the Civil War Adams served as the United States Minister to the United Kingdom under Abraham Lincoln, where he played a key role in keeping Britain neutral while southern agents were trying to achieve official recognition of the Confederacy. That meant conducting dialogue with both sides and monitoring the British connection in the supply of commerce raiders.

He became an overseer of Harvard University, and built Adams National Historical Park, a library in honor of his father in Quincy, Massachusetts.

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