A brief relation of the state of New England, from the beginning of that plantation to this present year, 1689
Subtitle: In a letter to a person of quality. Licensed, July 30th. 1689..
Contributors: Kick, Abraham; Ternaux-Compans, Henri, 1807-1864
Publisher: Printed for Richard Baldwine, near the Black Bull in the Old-Baily
Published: 1689
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 18
Subjects: Massachuset Indians; Missions; Indians of North America; Catalogs, Booksellers'; History
Notes: Attributed to Increase Mather by Holmes.

What is evidently a first draft of the above, containing about one-half of the text, is among the Hutchinson papers in possession of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and was printed in its Collections, 3rd series, volume 1, page 93-101. The handwriting is not that of Mather.

The "Brief relation" included in addition the 12th article of the Declaration of the gentlemen, merchants and inhabitants of Boston, Apr. 18, 1689 on pages 10-12 is believed to have been written by Increase Mather.

"To Her Royal Hignness the Princess of Orange, &c.", pages 13-15, is dated and signed: Hague the first of February, 1689. S.N. Abraham Kick.

Pages 15-18 contain an excerpted translation of Increase Mather's De successu evangelii apud Indos in Nova-Anglia epistola, printed in London, 1688. It was reprinted in Force's Tracts, volume 4, number 11, and Andros tracts, volume 2, pages 147-170, the latter containing a discussion of the authorship.

Signatures: A-B⁴ (A1 verso blank) C².

Bookseller's advertisements: pages [1-2], 2nd count.

Holmes, T.J. Increase Mather: a bibliography of his works, 17A

Church, E.D. Catalogue of books relating to the discovery and early history of North and South America, 713

Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700, M1189

Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, books printed 1675-1700, page 21

European Americana, 689/124

English short title catalogue R3614

Purchase; 1846; 0538.