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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58836	Massachusetts, or, The first planters of New-England the end and manner of their coming thither, and abode there: in several epistles ...	Dudley, Thomas, 1576-1653.; Allin, John, 1596-1671.; Shepard, Thomas, 1605-1649.; Cotton, John, 1584-1652.; Massachusetts	1696 (1696)	Wing S2098; ESTC R10108	23,148	60

are ready to go Aboard therein for England Sir Richard Saltonstall Mr. Sharp Mr. Coddington and many others the most whereof purpose to return to us again if God will In the mean time we are left a People poor and contemptible yet such as Trust in God and are contented with our condition being well assured that he will not fail us nor forsake us I had almost forgotten to add this That the Wheat we received by this last Ship stands us in thirteen or fourteen shillings a strike and the Pease about eleven shillings a strike besides the Adventure which is worth three or four shillings a strike which is an higher price than I ever tasted Bread of before Thus Madam I have as I can told Your Honour all our matters knowing Your Wisdom can make good use thereof If I Live not to perform the like Office of my Duty hereafter likely it is some other will do it better Before the departure of the Ship which yet was Wind-bound there came unto us Sagamore Iohn and one of his Subjects requiring satisfaction for the Burning of two Wigwams by some of the English which Wiggwams were not Inhabited but stood in a place convenient for their shelter when upon occasion they should Travel that way By Examination we found that some English Fowlers having retired into that which belonged to the Subject and leaving a Fire therein carelesly which they had kindled to warm them were the cause of Burning thereof For that which was the Sagamores we could find no certain proof how it was Fired yet least he should think us not sedulous enough to find it out and so should depart discontentedly from us we gave both him and his Subject satisfaction for them both The like accident of Fire also befel Mr. Sharp and Mr. Colborn upon the seventeenth of this March both whose Houses which were as good and as well furnished as the most in the Plantation were in two hours space Burned to the ground together with much of their Houshold stuff Apparel and other things as also some Goods of others who Sojourned with them in their Houses God so pleasing to exercise us with Corrections of this kind as he hath done with others For the prevention whereof in our New Town intended this Summer to be Builded we have ordered that no man there shall Build his Chimney with Wood nor cover his House with Thatch which was readily assented unto for that divers other Houses have been Burned since our Arrival Upon the Eighteenth Day of March came one from Salem and told us that upon the Fifteenth thereof there Dyed Mrs. Skelton the Wife of the other Minister there She was a Godly and an helpful Woman she lived desired and dyed lamented and well deserves to be honourably remembred Upon the Twenty fifth of this March one of Watertown having lost a Call and about ten of the Clock at night hearing the Howling of some Wolves not far off raised many of his Neighbours out of their Beds that by Discharging their Muskets near about the place where he heard the Wolves he might so put the Wolves to flight and save his Calf The Wind serving fit to carry the Report of the Muskets to Roxbury three miles off at such a time the Inhabitants there took an Alarm Beat up their Drum Armed themselves and sent in Post to us to Boston to Raise us also So in the morning the Calf being found safe the Wolves affrighted and our danger past we went merrily to Breakfast I thought to have ended before but the stay of the Ship and my desire to inform Your Honour of all I can hath caused this Addition And every one having warning to prepare for the Ships departure to morrow I am now this Twenty-Eighth of March 163 〈◊〉 Sealing my Letters The PREFACE of the Reverend Mr. John Allin of Dedham and of Mr. Thomas Shepard of Cambridge in New-England before their Defence of the Answer made unto the Nine Questions IT was the Profession of the Lord Jesus before Pilate when he questioned with him about his Kingdom Iohn 18. 37. That for this cause he was born and came into the world to bear witness of the Truth Many Truths about the Spiritual Kingdom of Christ hath he imparted to us if therefore we be born into the world or sent into this Wilderness to bear witness to his Truth it is unto us reward sufficient that we should be Witnesses thereunto even to the Utmost parts of the Earth We confess we have been too slow in this Service of Christ not having to this day set forth an unanimous Confession of that Form of wholsome words which is Preached received and professed in these Churches of the Lord Jesus and which we are not unmindful of though our distances and other difficulties may delay the opportunity But this in the mean time we profess in general That so far as we know there is the same blessed Spirit of Truth breathing in the Ministry of the Country the same Faith embraced and professed in the Churches which is generally received as the Orthodox Doctrine of the Gospel in the best reformed Churches and particularly by our Godly Learned Brethren of England and Scotland And though Errors have sprung up among us and some are gone out from us that we fear were not of us yet we have born witness against them and by the blessing of God by the breath of Christ in the mouths of his Servants they have been blasted Neither do we understand that these Churches are accused of any Errors about the saving Truths of the Gospel and therefore we thought our selves not so much called of God to such a Confession at present as to clear up to the World those Truths we prosess about the Kingdom and Government of Christ in his Churches which is the great work of this age and of this nick of time And yet here also we fear that we have been too slack for though it be said We are the Volunteers such as cry up this way c. and so it seems we are apprehended to be one cause of these present differences yet if things be well weighed we may seem rather to be far behind in the duty that lies upon us Indeed some brief Answers sent over to some particular persons to satisfie Brethren what our practise is with some brief touch of our reasons rather than to discuss those points have been printed by some without our knowledge or assent upon what grounds they best know And some short Treatises by some Reverend Brethren have been published to declare their affectionate desires of the unanimous endeavours of all our dear Brethren for a general and holy Reformation But what hath been said or done that either may justly offend the minds of the godly provoke their spirits disunite their affections or hinder a godly Reformation Yea we have been too slow to clear our Doctrine and practise from the many objections harsh interpretations and