Bay Psalm Book
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The Whole Booke of Psalmes Faithfully Translated into English Metre, commonly called the Bay Psalm Book, is a metrical psalter first printed in 1640 in Cambridge, Colony of Massachusetts Bay. It was t
Title page of the copy of the Bay Psalm Book held by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
a page of the Bay Psalm Book in the Houghton Library
The Whole Booke of Psalmes imprinted 1640 title page
Thomas Mayhew
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Governor Thomas Mayhew, the Elder established the first European settlement on Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, and adjacent islands in 1642. He is one of the editors of the Bay Psalm Book, the first boo
Bay Psalm Book
…these several psalters and wished for some that were closer to the original. They hired "thirty pious and learned Ministers", including Richard Mather, Thomas Mayhew, and John Eliot, to undertake a new translation, which they presented here. The tunes to be sung to the new translations were the familiar ones from…
Thomas Mayhew
Marker for Thomas Mayhew homestead in Watertown, Massachusetts