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A51414	New-Englands memoriall, or, A brief relation of the most memorable and remarkable passages of the providence of God manifested to the planters of New-England in America with special reference to the first colony thereof, called New-Plimouth : as also a nomination of divers of the most eminent instruments deceased, both of church and common-wealth, improved in the first beginning and after-progress of sundry of the respective jurisdictions in those parts, in reference unto sundry exemplary passages of their lives, and the time of their death / published for use and benefit of present and future generations, by Nathaniel Morton ...	Morton, Nathaniel, 1613-1685.	1669 (1669)	Wing M2827; ESTC R16332	139,372	220

these parts and never left watching and dogging them untill they got advantage and kill'd them all but three or four which they kept and sent from one Sachem to another to make sport with them and used them worse then Slaves and they conceived this Ship was now come to revenge it Two of the said French so used were redeemed by the aforesaid Mr. Dermer the other died amongst the Indians and as the Indians have reported one of them lived amongst them untill he was able to discourse with them and told them That God was angry with them for their wickedness and would destroy them and give their Country to another people that should not live like beasts as they did but should be clothed c. But they derided him and said That they were so many that God could not kill them His answer was That though they were never so many God had many wayes to destroy them that they knew not A memorable passage of Gods punishing of the Heathen for their notorious Blasphemy and other sins Shortly after his death came the Plague a Disease they never heard of before and mightily swept them away and left them as dung upon the earth as you have heard Not long after came the English to New-Plimouth and then several of the Indians began to minde the French-mans words thinking him to be more then an ordinary man And as the first part of his speech had proved true they began to be apprehensive of the latter viz. The less of their Country This Relation the first Planters at Plimouth after they came to be acquainted with them several of them heard from divers of their ancient and gravest Indians and have often seen the place where the French were surprised and taken which place beareth the Name of Frenchmans Point with many to this day This Relation for the verity thereof being also very observeable was thought meet to be here inserted And let me adde a word hereunto Several instances of the Mortality of the Indians occasionally taken notice of That it is very observable likewise That God hath very evidently made way for the English by sweeping away the Natives by some great Mortalities as first by the Plague here in Plimouth Jurisdiction secondly by the Small Pox in the Jurisdiction of the Massachusets a very considerable people a little before the English came into the Country as also at Conecticot very full of Indians a little before the English went into those parts and then the Pequots by the Sword of the English as will appear in its place and the Country now mostly possessed by the English I might also mention several places in the Jurisdiction of New-Plimouth peopled with considerable companies of proper able men since the first Planters thereof came over even in our sight before they were in a capacity to improve any of their land that have by the same hand of Providence been cut off and so their Land even cleared for them and now so replenished with their Posterity Exod. 23.28 29.30 that places are too straight for them By little and little saith God of old to his people will I drive them out from before thee till thou be increased and inherit the Land But before I pass on let the Reader take notice of a very remarkable particular which was made known to the said Planters at Plimouth some short space after their arrival That the Indians before they came to the English to make Friendship with them Behold how Satan laboured to hinder the Gospel from coming into N. E. they got all the Powaws in the Country who for three dayes together in a horrid and devillish manner did Curse and Execrate them with their Conjurations which Assembly and Service they held in a dark and dismall Swamp But to return The Spring being now come it pleased God that the Mortality which had taken away so many of the first Planters at Plimouth ceased and the Sick and Lame recovered apace which was as it were a new life put into them they having born this Affliction with much patience being upheld by the Lord. And thus we are come unto the Twenty fifth of March 1621. 1621. THis Year several of the Indian Sachems besides Massasoiet before-named came unto the Government of New-Plimouth and acknowledged themselves to be the Loyal Subjects of our Soveraign Lord King James and subscribed unto a Writing to that purpose with their own hands the tenour of which said Writing followeth with their Names annexed thereunto It being conceived by some that are judicious that it may be of use in succeeding times I thought meet here to insert it September 13. Anno Dom. 1621. KNOW all men by these Presents That we whose Names are under-written do acknowledge our selves to be the Loyal Subjects of King James King of Great Britain France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. In Witness whereof and as a Testimonial of the same we have Subscribed our Names or Marks as followeth Ohquamehud Cawnacome Obbatinnua Nattawahunt Caunbatant Chikkatabak Quadaquina Huttamoiden Apannow Now followeth several Passages of the Providence of God to and the further progress of the first Planters at Plimouth appertaining to the Year 1621. THey now began to hasten the Ship away which tartied so long by reason of the necessity and danger that lay on them because so many died both of themselves and the Ships Company likewise by which they became so few as the Master durst not put out to Sea untill those that lived recovered of their Sickness and the Winter over The Spring of this year they Planted their first Corn in New-England being instructed in the manner thereof by the fore-named Squanto they likewise sowed some English Grain with little success by reason partly of the badness of the Seed and lateness of the season or some other defect not then discerned In the Month of April in this year their Governour Mr. John Carver fell sick and within a few dayes after died whose death was much lamented and caused great heaviness amongst them and there was indeed great cause He was buried in the best manner they could with as much Solemnity as they were in a capacity to perform with the Discharge of some Volleys of shot of all that bare Arms. This worthy Gentleman was one of singular Piety and rare for Humility as appeared by his great condescendency when as this poor miserable people were in great sickness and weakness he shunned not to do very mean services for them yea the meanest of them He bare a share likewise of their labour in his own person accordingly as their extreme necessity required who being one also of a considerable Estate spent the main part of it in this Enterprize and from first to last approved himself not onely as their Agent in the first transacting of things but also all along to the period of his life to be a pious faithful and very beneficial Instrument and now

Timber both strong and comely which was of good defence made with a flat Roof and Battlements on which Fort their Ordnance were mounted and where they kept constant Watch especially in time of danger It served them also for a Metting-house and was fitted accordingly for that use It was a great Work for them to do in their weakness and times of want but the danger of the time required it there being continual rumours of the Indians and fears of their rising against them especially the Narrhagansets and also the hearing of that great and sad Massacre in Virginia above-named It may not here be omitted that notwithstanding all their great pains and industry and the great hopes they had of a large Crop the Lord seemed to threaten them with more and sorer Famine by a great Drought which continued from the third week in May untill the middle of July without any Rain and with great heat of Weather for the most part insomuch as their Corn began to wither away although it was planted with Fish according to their usual manner in those times yet at length it began to languish fore and some of the dryer grounds was parched like withered Hay part whereof was never recovered Upon which they set a part a solemn Day of Humiliation to seek the Lord by humble and servent Prayer in this great distress and he was pleased to give them a gracious and speedy answer both to their own and the Indians admiration that lived amongst them for all the morning and greatest part of the day it was clear weather and very hot and not a Cloud nor any sign of Rain to be seen yet towards evening it began to overcast and shortly after to Rain with such sweet and gentle showers as gave them cause of rejoycing and blessing God it came without either Wind or Thunder or any violence and by degrees in that abundance as that the Earth was throughly wet and soaked therewith which did so apparently revive and quicken the decayed Corn and other Fruits as was wonderful and made the Indians astonished to behold A little before the Lord sent this Rain of Liberalities upon his people one of them having occasion to go to the house of the afore-named Hobamak the Indian he the said Hobamak saith unto him The person that made this Relation is still surviving and a principal man in the Jurisdiction of Newr Plimouth I am much troubled for the English for I am afraid they will lose all their Corn by the Drought and so they will be all starved as for the Indians they can shift better then the English for they can get Fish to help themselves But afterwards the same man having occasion to go again to his house he said to him Now I see that the English mans God is a good God for he hath heard you and sent you Rain and that without Storms and Tempests and Thunder which usually we have with our Rain which breaks down our Corn but your stands whole and good still surely your God is a good God or with words to the life effect And after this gracious return of Prayers in this so seasonable a blessing of the Rain the Lord sent them such seasonable showers with interchange of warm weather as through his blessing caused in its time a fruitful and liberal Harvest to their great Comfort and Rejoycing for which Mercy in time convenient they also solemnized a Day of Thanksgiving unto the Lord. Now the welcome Harvest approached in the which all had some refreshment but it arose but to a little in comparison of a whole years supply partly by reason they were not yet well acquainted with the manner of the Husbandry of the Indian Corn having no other and also their many other Imployments but chiefly their weakness for want of food so as to appearance Famine was like to ensue if not some way prevented Markets there was none to go unto but onely the Indians but they had no Trading stuff Another good providence of God tending to their relief But behold now another Providence of God A Ship came into the Harbour one Captain Jones being chief in her set out by some Merchants to discover all the Harbours between Cape Cod and Virginia and to Trade along the Coast This Ship had store of English Beads which were then good made and some Knives but would fell none but at dear rates and also a good quantity together yet they were glad of the occasion and fain to buy at any rate they were fain to give after the rate of Cent. per Cent. If not more and yet pay away Co●●-Beave● at three shillings per pound By this meane they were fitted again to trade for Beaver and other things and so procured what Corn they could But here let me take liberty to make a little digression There was in the Ship sent by Mr. Weston fore-named in which his Men came a Gentleman named Mr. John Porey he had been Secretary in Virginia and was now going home Passenger in this Ship After his departure he wrote a Letter to the Governour of Plimouth in the Postscript whereof he hath these expressions following To your self and Mr. Brewster I must humbly acknowledge my self many wayes indebted whose Books I would have you think very well bestowed who esteems them such Jewels My haste would not suffer me to remember much less to beg Mr. Ainsworths elaborate Work on the five Books of Moses both his and Mr. Robinson do highly commend the Authors as being most conversant in the Scriptures of all others and what good who knows it may please God to work by them through my hands though most unworthy who finde such high content in them God have you all in his keeping August 28. 1622. Your unfeigned and firm Friend JOHN POREY These things I here insert partly for the honours sake of the Authors memory which this Gentleman doth so ingenuously acknowledge and also the credit and good that he procured unto the Plantation of Plimouth after his return and that amongst those of no mean Rank But to return Mr. Westons people fore-named who were now seated in the Bay of the Massachusets at a place called by the Indians Wesagufquafet Now by the English called Weymouth and by disorder as it seemed had made havock of their Provision they began now to conceive that want would come upon them and hearing that their Neighbours at Plimouth had bought Trading-stuff as aforesaid and intended to Trade for Corn they wrote to the Governour and desired that they might joyn with them and they would imploy their small Ship in this service and also requested to lend or sell them so much of their Trading-stuff as their part might come to which was agreed unto on equal terms so they went out in the Expedition with an intention to go about Cape Cod to the Southwards but meeting with cross Winds and other Crosses went in at Mann●m●ik where the aforesaid

them that sickness would follow and so it did very hot in the Months of June July and August of that Summer This year there arrived in New-England those three worthy Instruments Mr. John Cotton Mr. Thomas Hooker Mr. Cotton Mr. Hooker Mr. Samuel Stones arrival in N.E. and Mr. Samuel Stone who were Gospel-Preachers of excellent worth and use in their places untill God took them out of the world unto himself This year likewise Mr. William Collier arrived with his Family in New-England Mr. Colliers arrival in N.E. who as he had been a good Benefactor to the Colony of New-Plimouth before he came over having been an Adventurer unto it at its first beginning so also he approved himself a very useful Instrument in that Jurisdiction after he arrived being frequently Chosen and for divers years serving God and the Country in the place of Magistracy and lived a godly and holy life untill old Age which to him is a Crown of Glory being found in the way of Righteousness 1634. THis Year Mr. Thomas Prince was Chosen Governour of the Jurisdiction of New-Plimouth His Assistants in Government were Mr. William Bradford Mr. Edward Winslow Captain Miles Standish Mr. William Collier Mr. John Alden Mr. John Howland and Mr. Stephen Hopkins A great sickness amongst the Indians In the Spring of this Year there fell a very great sickness of the Small Pox amongst the Indians so as they died most miserably of it for a sorer Disease cannot come amongst them and they dread it more then the Plague it self for usually those of them which have this Disease have them in abundance and for want of Bedding and Linen and other Necessaries they fall into a lamentable condition for as they lye on their hard Mats the Pox breaking and running one into another their skin cleaving by reason thereof to the Mats they lye on when they turn them much of their skin will flay off at once and they will be all on a gore blood most sad and grievous to behold and then being very sore what with cold and other distempers they die like rotten sheep This Year one Captain Stone who had sometimes lived at Christophers in the West-India's came into these parts of whom I have nothing to speak in way of commendation but rather the contrary After he had been to and fro in the Country he returned towards Virginia with one Captain Norton and so it was that as they returned they went in at Conecticot River where the Indians killed the said Stone as he lay in his Cabbin and threw a Covering over him they likewise killed all the rest of his Company but the said Captain Norton he defending himself a long time in the Cook-room of the Barque untill by accident the Gunpowder took fire which for readiness he had set in an open thing before him which did so burn and scald him and blinde his eyes as he could make no longer resistance but was slain also by them and they made a prey of his goods It is to be observed That the said Stone being at the Dutch Plantation in the fore-part of this year a certain Barque of Plimouth being there likewise on Trading he kept company with the Dutch Governour and made him drunk and got leave of him in his drunkenness to take the said Barque without any occasion or cause given him and so taking his time when the Merchant and some of the chief of the men were on shore with some of his own men made the rest of them weigh Anchor and set sail to carry her away to Virginia but some of the Dutch Seamen who had been at Plimouth and received kindness seeing this horrible abuse got a Vessel or two and pursued them and brought them back After this he came into the Massachusets Bay where they commenced Suit against him but by the mediation of some it was taken up and afterwards in the company of some Gentlemen he came to Plimouth and was kindly entertained but Revenge boiling in his breast as some conceived he watched a season to have stabbed the Governour and put his hand to his Dagger for that end but by Gods Providence ordering the vigilance of some that were about him he was prevented but God met with him for these and other wickednesses as hath been before related 1635. THis year Mr. William Bradford was chosen Governour of the Jurisdiction of New-Plimouth And Were Chosen to be his Assistants in Government Mr. Edward Winslow Mr. Thomas Prince Mr. William Collier Captain Standish Mr. John Alden Mr. John Howland and Mr. Stephen Hopkins This Year Mr. Edward Winslow took a Voyage for England on publick occasions and it came to pass that he had occasion to answer some Complaints made against the Country at the Council Board more chiefly concerning the Massachusets Jurisdiction which he did to good effect and further prosecuted such things as might tend to the good of the whole in particular he preferred a Petition to the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners for the Plantations in America in reference unto some injuries done by the French and Dutch unto the Country which Petition found good acceptance and was in a way to a satisfactory Answer but sundry Adversaries interposed whose ends were the subversion and overthrow of the Churches at least to disturb their peace and hinder their growth but by Gods providence it so fell out in the end that although those Adversaries crossed the Petition for taking any further effect in the end principally intended in it yet by this as a means the whole plot was discovered and those Adversaries came to nothing the particulars whereof are too long here to be inserted This Year on Saturday the fifteenth day of August was such a mighty storm of Wind and Rain as none now living in these parts either English or Indian had seen the like being like unto those Hirracanes or Tu●●ins that writers mention to be sometimes in the Indies The great storm or Hirracane It began in the morning a little before day and grew not by degrees but came with great violence in the beginning to the great amazement of many It blew down sundry houses and uncovered divers others divers Vessels were lost at Sea in it and many more in extream danger It caused the Sea to swell in some places to the southward of Plimouth as that it arose to twenty foot right up and down and made many of the Indians to climb into Trees for their safety It threw down all the Corn to the ground which never rose more the which through the mercy of God it being near harvest time was not lost though much the worse and had the wind continued without shifting in likelihood it would have drowned some part of the Country It blew down many hundred thousands of Trees turning up the stronger by the roots and breaking the high Pine Trees and such like in the midst and the tall young Oaks and Walnut Trees