In 1643 Massachusetts became a member of the New England confederation, and her population was then about fifteen thousand; but nearly as many more had come over and were distributed among three new colonies--Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Haven.
[Footnote 1: Bradford, _Plimoth Plantation_, 332; Winthrop, _New England_, I., 36.] [Footnote 2: Force, _Tracts_, II., No.iv., 15.] [Footnote 3: _Mass.Col.Records_, I., 75.] [Footnote 4: Morton, _New English Canaan_ (Force, _Tracts_, II., No.
v.), 109.] [Footnote 5: Dudley's letter (ibid., No.

iv.).] [Footnote 6: _Mass.Col.Records_, I., 75, 77.] [Footnote 7: Palfrey, _New England_, I., 323, 324] [Footnote 8: Ibid., 323.] [Footnote 9: Hubbard, _New England_ (Mass.Hist.Soc., _Collections_, 2d series, V.), 138, 139; Winthrop, _New England_, I., 52.] [Footnote 10: Winthrop, _New England_, I., 64.] [Footnote 11: _Mass.Col.Records_, I., 82.] [Footnote 12: Ibid., 87.] [Footnote 13: Winthrop, _New England_, I., 84, 90, 152.] [Footnote 14: _Mass.Col.Records_, II., 58, 59; Winthrop, _New England_, II., 115-118, 193.] [Footnote 15: _Cal.

of State Pap., Col._ 1574-1660, p.

158.] [Footnote 16: Bradford, _Plimoth Plantation_, 356.] [Footnote 17: Winthrop, _New England_, I., 122, 123.] [Footnote 18: _Cal.

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