1 Thomas Dudley to Countess of Lincoln, 12 March 1631, in Young, Chronicles of the First Planters, 312; Johnson, Wonder-working Providence, 66.

2 American historians have much to learn from Geoffrey Blainey, The Tyranny of Distance; How Distance Shaped Australia’s History (Melbourne, 1966, 1974).

3 Lucy Winthrop Downing to John Winthrop, n.d., Winthrop Papers, MAHS; Simmons, Emmanuel Downing, 43.