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William Hubbard (1621/2–1704)
Hubbard, William. An American clergyman and author; born in Tendring, Essex, England, in 1621; died at Ipswich, MA, Sept. 14, 1704. He emigrated to Massachusetts in 1635, graduated at Harvard in 1642, and was minister of Ipswich for over forty years. In 1688 he was temporary president of Harvard College. His chief works are: ‘The Present State of New England’ (1677); ‘A Narrative of Troubles with the Indians’ (1677), containing the first map of New England known to have been made in America; and ‘A General History of New England from the Discovery to 1680’ (published by the Massachusetts Historical Society in 1815), for which the colonial authorities paid him £50.