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India Christiana. A discourse, delivered unto the Commissioners, for the Propagation of the Gospel…
India Christiana. A discourse, delivered unto the Commissioners, for the Propagation of the Gospel among the American Indians : which is accompanied with several instruments relating to the glorious design of propagating our holy religion, in the Eastern as well as the Western, Indies. : An entertainment which they that are waiting for the kingdom of God will receive as good news from a far country. / By Cotton Mather, D.D. and F.R.S.
printed by B. Green, 1721
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Concerning the Conversion of the Indians on these Islands, and places adjacent on the Main, there was a brief Narrative written by Matthew Mayhew, Esq Eldest Son of the Rev. Mr. Thomas Mayhew, who first Preached the Gospel unto them; which Narrative was Printed at Boston in the Year 1694. and Reprinted at London the next Year, under the Title of, The Conquest and Triumphs of Grace, &c. The same for Substance, being again Printed some Years after, in Dr. C. Mather's History of New-England.
COncerning the Conversion of the Indians on these Islands, and places adjacent on the Main, there was a brief Narrative written by Matthew Mayhew, Esq Eldest Son of the Rev. Mr. Thomas Mayhew, who first Preached the Gospel unto them; which Narrative was Printed at Boston in the Year 1694. and Reprinted at London the next Year, under the Title of, The Conquest and Triumphs of Grace, &c. The same for Substance, being again Printed some Years after, in Dr. C. Mather's History of New-England.
I shall begin my Account of the State of the Indians from the time the said Book was first Published, that being about the time that I first began to Preach to them.
The Number of Indians on these Islands is very much diminished, since the English first settled on Martha's Vineyard, which was in the Year 1642, there being then as was supposed on that Island about 1500 Souls. At present there are in the Vineyard six small Villages, containing in all of them, about 155 Families, and the Number of Souls may be about eight hundred.