The planters plea, or, The grounds of plantations examined, and vsuall objections answered
Subtitle: together with a manifestation of the causes mooving such as have lately vndertaken a plantation in Nevv-England : for the satisfaction of those that question the lawfulnesse of the action.
Contributors: Jones, William, d. 1643, printer.; Flesher, Miles, d. 1664, printer.; Dawson, John, d. 1634?, printer.; Force, Peter, 1790-1868, former owner.; English Printing Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed by William Iones
Published: 1630
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 84
Subjects: Colonization; Massachusetts -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Sources; Ann, Cape (Mass.) -- History -- Sources
Genres: Sources.
Other titles: Planters plea, or, The grovnds of plantations examined, and vsuall objections answered; Planters plea; Grounds of plantations examined, and vsuall objections answered
Notes: LC copy formerly part of the Force collection.
STC (2nd ed.) 25399
Sowerby, E.M.  Cat. of the lib. of Thomas Jefferson 4055
"The work ... contains facts relating to the earliest attempts at settlement in Massachusetts Bay, which can be found nowhere else, and these facts furnished by the persons who were themselves engaged as adventurers in these attempts." -- Young, p. 16.
Ascribed by Increase Mather to Rev. John White, of Dorchester, England. Cf. Alexander Young, Chronicles of the first planters of ... Massachusetts, 1846, p. 16.
STC (2nd ed.) reports that Jones printed gathering A and possibly H-I; M. Flesher printed B-G; and J. Dawson K-M.
Signatures: A² B-L⁴ M².