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A relation of the troubles which have happened in New-England, by reason of the…A relation of the troubles which have hapned in New-England, by reason of the…
A relation of the troubles which have happened in New-England, by reason of the Indians there. From the year 1614 to the year 1675. : Wherein the frequent conspiracies of the Indians to cut off the English, and the wonderful providence of God, in disappointing their devices, is declared. : Together with an historical discourse concerning the prevalency of prayer; showing that New Englands late deliverance from the rage of the heathen is an eminent answer of prayer. / By Increase Mather teacher of a church in Boston in New-England. ; [Nine lines of quotations]A relation of the troubles which have hapned in New-England, by reason of the Indians there. From the year 1614 to the year 1675. : Wherein the frequent conspiracyes of the Indians to cutt off the English, and the wonderfull providence of God, in disappointing their devices, is declared. : Together with an historical discourse concerning the prevalency of prayer; shewing that New Englands late deliverance from the rage of the heathen is an eminent answer of prayer. / By Increase Mather teacher of a church in Boston in New-England. ; [Nine lines of quotations]
printed by John Foster, 1677
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
For in Anno 1602. and in the year following, some of our Countrymen made notable discoveries in that Land which lieth North and by east of Virginia, between the degrees of 43▪ & 45. Northern Latitude.
For in Anno 1602. and in the year following, some of our Countreymen made notable discoveryes in that Land which lyeth North and by east of Virginia, between the degrees of 43▪ & 45. Northern Latitude.
Four or five years after this that noble Lord, Sr. John Popham (then Lord chief Justice) sent ou• a ship into these parts to make further discovery, who arriving at the place designed, quickly returned, and made such a report of what they had seen, •s did greatly animate the Adventurers to go on with their begun undertaking; whereupon in Anno 1607. A Gentleman ⟨p. 2⟩whose name was Popham was sent into these Coasts, with two ships and an hundred Land-men, and Ordnance, and other things necessary for their sustentation and defence, in order to the making way for the settlement of a F•antation. But that noble Lord being taken out of the world by sudden death, also the Planters here meeting with •ad disasters (for in the depth of winter, their lodgings and stores were burnt, and Capt. Pophom dyed amongst them) when the next year a vessel arrived bringing the news of the Lord Pophom's death, the whole company of the English resolved upon a return home, which proved the death of the English Plantation, at that time designed in these parts of the world. Only Sr. •r. Popham (son to the Lord chief Justice) sent diverse time▪ to those coasts for trade and Fishing.