William Hubbard (1621/2–1704)

American clergyman and historian, born in England in 1621. He emigrated with his parents to America in 1635; graduated at Harvard in 1642; was first assistant, then pastor, at Ipswich until 1703. He published The Present State of New England (1677); Memoirs of Major-General Denison (1684); The General History of New England from the Discovery to 1680. The government of Massachusetts paid him fifty pounds for the latter. It was reprinted for the Massachusetts Historical Society in 1815. He died in Ipswich on the 14th of September 1704. See also “William Hubbard,” “Captain Miles Standish His Temper,” “Taking of the Narraganset Fort,” “Subtlety and Courage of the Friendly Indians” and “How an Indian Bore Himself under Torture.”