Wednesday. January 1. 1701. A Little Before Break-a-day at Boston of the Massachusets [sic].

Notes

Sewall’s religious poem honoring the new century contains: "From hard’ned JEWS the Vail remove, Let them their Martyr’d JESUS love; And Homage unto Him afford, Because He is their Rightful LORD" (quoted text is taken from Kenneth Silverman, ed. Colonial American Poetry (New York, 1968), p. 215, copied in turn from Sewall’s Proposals Touching the Accomplishment of Prophesies Humbly Offered (Boston, 1713), leaf following p. 12. Evans 1023 is the source for the imprint.