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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

a Fleet of ten Ships three of them arriving first at Salem in which several of the chiefest of them came who repaired sundry of them in some short time into the Bay of the Massachusets the other seven Ships arrived at Charlstown where it pleased the Lord to exercise them with much sickness and being destitute of housing and shelter and lying up and down in Booths some of them languished and died yea it pleased God to take away amongst the rest that blessed Servant of Christ Mr. Isaac Johnson with his Lady soon after their arrival with sundry other precious Saints This sickness being heavy upon them caused the principal of them to propose to the rest to set a day apart to seek the Lord for the asswaging of his displeasure therein as also for direction and guidance in the solemn enterprize of entring into Church-fellowship which solemn day of Humiliation was observed by all not onely of themselves but also by their Brethren at Plimouth in their behalf and the Lord was intreated not onely to asswage the sickness but also encouraged their hearts to a beginning and in some short time after to a further progress in the great Work of Erecting a way of Worshipping of Christ in Church-fellowship according to Primitive Institution Those choice and eminent Servants of Christ did not despise their poor Leaders and Fellow-souldiers that they found in the same Work of the Lord with them at Plimouth but treated them as Brethren much pitying their great straits and hardships they had endured in the first beginning of Planting this Wilderness promising all helpfulness even out of their own Estates according to their power and their said Brethren at Plimouth were perswaded they spake as they thought in their hearts for such was the simplicity of those times as that divers faces were not carried under a hood Pride Covetousness Profaneness and sinful Self were ashamed to be seen except in obscure places and persons Oh poor New-England consider what thou wast and what thou now art Repent and do thy first works saith the Lord so may thy peace yet be as a river Isa 48.18 19. and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea So be it But to return The first that began in the work of the Lord above-mentioned were their honoured Governour Mr. John Winthrop Mr. Johnson fore-named that much honoured Gentleman Mr. Thomas Dudley and Mr. John Wilson aforesaid These four were the first that began that honourable Church of Boston unto whom there joyned many others The same year also Mr. George Philips who was a worthy Servant of Christ and Dispenser of his Word began a Church-fellowship at Watertown as did also Mr. Maverick and Mr. Wareham at Dorchester the same year Thus out of small beginnings greater things have been produced by his hand that made all things of nothing and as one small Candle may light a thousand so the Light here kindled hath shone unto many yea in some sort to our whole Nation Let the glorious Name of Jehovah have all the praise in all Ages 1631. THis Year the Reverend and Usefull Instrument Mr. John Eliot came over and not long after Mr. Weld who began a Church-Society at Roxbury as likewise good old Mr. Maverick and Mr. Wareham began one at Dorchester 1632. THis year one Sir Christopher Gardiner being as himself said descended of the house of Gardiner Bishop of Winchester who was so great a Persecutor of Gods Saints in Queen Maries dayes arrived in New-England he being a great traveller received his first honor of Knight-hood at Jerusalem being made Knight at the Sepulchre there he came into these parts in pretence of forsaking the World and to live a private life in a godly course not unwilling to put himself upon any mean imployment and take any pains for his living and sometimes offered himself to joyn to the Church in sundry places he brought over with him a servant or two and a comely young woman whom he called his Cousin but it was suspected that after the Italian manner she was his Concubine he living at the Massachusets for some miscarriages for which he should have answered fled away from Authority and got amongst the Indians in the Jurisdiction of New-Plimouth the Government of the Massachusets sent after him but could not get him and promised some reward to those that should finde him the Indians came to the Governour of Plimouth and told where he was and asked if they might kill him but the said Governour told them no they should not kill him by no means but if they could take him alive and bring him to Plimouth they should be payed for their pains they said he had a Gun and a Rapier and he would kill them if they went about it and the Massachusets Indians said they might kill him but the Governour aforesaid told them no they should not kill him but watch their opportunity and take him and so they did for when they light on him by a River side he got into a Cannoo to get from them and when they came near him whiles he presented his piece at them to keep them off the stream carried the Cannoo against a Rock and threw both him and his Piece and the Rapier into the water yet he got out and having a little dagger by his side they durst not close with him but getting long poles they soon beat his dagger out of his hand so he was glad to yield and they brought him to the Governour at Plimouth but his hands and arms were swelled and very sore with the blows they had given him so he used him kindly and sent him to a lodging where his arms were bathed and annointed and he was quickly well again and blamed the Indians for beating him so much they said they did but a little whip him with sticks In his lodging those that made his bed found a little Note-book that by accident had slipped out of his pocket or some private place in which was a memorial what day he was reconciled to the Pope and Church of Rome and in what University he took his Scapula and such and such a Degree it being brought to the Governour he kept it and sent it to the Governour of the Massachusets with word of his taking who sent for him but afterwards he went for England and shewed his malice against new-New-England but God prevented him of which I thought meet to insert a Letter from Mr. Winthrop Governour of the Massachusets to Mr. Bradford the Governour of Plimouth in reference to this matter as also the Copy of an Order relating to the same as followeth And first of the Letter SIR UPon a Petition exhibited by Sir Christopher Gardiner Sir Ferdinando Gorges Captain Mason c. against you and us the cause was heard before the Lords of the Privy Council and afterwards reported to the King the success whereof makes it evident to all that the Lord hath care of his peoople here the

may finde protection and shelter under the wings of your pious Patronage to defend us against such criticall and censorious eyes and tongues as may either carp at my expressions or misconstrue my intentions The ample experience I have had of your undeserved Favour and Respect to me in my many years Service of the Publick and my observation in that time that you have desired something of this nature might be done hath encouraged me hereunto your good acceptance whereof shall ever oblige me to answerable returning of gratitude and administer to me further cause of thankfulness That God hath given me an Habitation under your just and prudent Administrations and wish for a Succession of such as may be skilfull to lead our Israel in this their peregrination and when God shall take you hence to receive the Crown of your labours and travels So prayeth Your Worships humble Servant Nathaniel Morton TO THE CHRISTIAN Reader Grace and Peace be multiplied With Profit by this following Narration Gentle Reader I Have for some length of time looked upon it as a duty incumbent especially on the immediate Successors of those that have had so large Experience of those many memorable and signall Demonstrations of Gods goodness viz. The first Beginners of this Plantation in New-England to commit to writing his gracious dispensations on that behalf having so many inducements thereunto not onely otherwise but so plentifully in the Sacred Scriptures That so what we have seen Psal 78.3 4. and what our fathers have told us we may not hide from our children shewing to the generations to come the praises of the Lord that especially the seed of Abraham his servant Psal 105.8 9. and the children of Jacob his chosen may remember his marvellous works in the beginning and progress of the planting of New-England his wonders and the judgements of his mouth Psal 80.8 9. How that God brought a vine into this Wilderness that he cast out the Heathen and planted it that he made room for it and caused it to take deep root and it filled the Land so that it hath sent forth its boughs to the Sea and its branches to the River And not onely so but also that He hath guided his people by his strength to his holy Habitation Exod. 15.13 and planted them in the Mountain of his Inheritance in respect of precious Gospel-Enjoyments So that we may not only look back to former Experiences of Gods goodness to our Predecessors Psal 66.6 though many years before and so have our faith strengthned in the Mercies of God for our times that so the Church being one Numerical Body might not onely even for the time he spake with us in our Forefathers Hosea 12.4 by many gracious manifestations of his glorious Attributes Wisdome Goodness and Truth improved for their good but also rejoyce in present Enjoyments of both outward and spirituall mercies as fruits of their Prayers Tears Travels and Labours That as especially God may have the glory of all unto whom it is most due so also some rayes of glory may reach the Names of those blessed Saints that were the main Instruments of the beginning of this happy Enterprize So then gentle Reader thou mayest take notice that the main Ends of publishing this small History is That God may have his due praise His Servants the Instruments have their Names embalmed and the present and future Ages may have the fruit and benefit of Gods great work in the Relation of the first Planting of new-New-England Which Ends if attained will be great cause of rejoycing to the Publisher thereof if God gives him life and opportunity to take notice thereof The Method I have observed is as I could in some measure answerable to the ends forenamed in inserting some Acknowledgements of Gods Goodness Faithfulness and Truth upon special occasions with allusion to the Scriptures and also taking notice of some special Instruments and such main and special Particulars as were perspicuously remarkable in way of Commendation in them so farre as my intelligence would reach and especially in a faithful Commemorizing and declaration of Gods wonderful works for by and to his people in preparing a place for them by driving out the Heathen before them bringing them through a a Sea of Troubles preserving and protecting them from and in those dangers that attended them in their low estate when they were strangers in the Land and making this howling Wilderness a Chamber of rest safety and pleasantness whiles the storms of his Displeasure have not onely tossed but endangered the overwhelming of great States and Kingdomes and hath now made it to us a fruitful Land sowed it with the seed of man and beast but especially in giving us so long a peace together with the Gospel of peace and so great a freedome in our Civil and Religious Enjoyments and also in giving us hopes that we may be Instruments in his hands not onely of enlarging of our Princes Dominions but to enlarge the Kingdome of the Lord Jesus in the Conversion of the poor blinde Natives And now Courteous Reader that I may not hold thee too long in the Porch I onely crave of thee to reade this following Discourse with a single eye and with the same ends as I had in penning it Let not the smallness of our Beginnings nor weakness of Instruments make the thing seem little or the work despicable but on the contrary let the greater praise be rendred unto God who hath effected great things by small means Let not the harshness of my style prejudice thy taste or appetite to the dish I present thee with Accept it as freely as I give it thee Corp not at what thou dost not approve but use it as a Remembrance of the Lords goodness to engage to true Thankfulness and Obedience so may it be a help to thee in thy journey through the wilderness of this world to that Eternal Rest which is onely to be found in the Heavenly Canaan which is the earnest desire of Thy Christian Friend Nathaniel Morton NEW-ENGLAND'S MEMORIAL OR A brief Relation of the most Remarkable Passages of the Providence of God manifested to the Planters of New-England in AMERICA And first of the beginning of the first Plantation in N.E. CALLED NEW-PLIMOUTH IT is the usuall manner of the Dispensation of the Majesty of Heaven to work wonderfully by weak means for the effectuating of great things to the intent that he may have the more Glory to himself Many instances hereof might be produced both out of the Sacred Scriptures and common Experience and amongst many others of this kinde the late Happy and Memorable Enterprize of the Planting of that part of America called New-England deserveth to be Commemorized to future Posterity IN the Year 1602. divers godly Christians of our English Nation in the North of England being studious of Reformation and therefore not onely witnessing against Humane Inventions and Additions in the Worship of

in the City of London yet he accomplished his business so as he left things in a fair way for future Composition betwixt the said Merchant-Adventurers and the Plantation and he spake also with some of the Honourable Council afore-named who promised all helpfulness to the Plantation that lay in them About this time it pleased the Lord likewise to give them peace health and good success on their endeavours his holy Name be praised 1626. ABout the beginning of April they heard of Captain Standish his arrival and sent a boat to fetch him home welcome he was but the news he brought was sad in many regards not only in regard of the forementioned losses which their friends had suffered and some of them dead of the Plague but also that Mr. John Robinson their Pastor was dead Mr. John Robinson's death which struck them with much sorrow and sadness as they had great cause his and their adversaries had been long and continually plotting how they might hinder his coming into New-England but now the Lord had appointed him to go a greater journey at less charge to a better place But before I pass things concerning this Worthy Servant of Christ Mr. John Robinson I shall here insert the honourable testimony that Mr. William Bradford senior hath left behinde him concerning him being greatly acquainted with his worth and excellency Saith he such was the mutual love and reciprocal respect that this worthy man had to his flock and his flock to him that it might be said of them as it was once of that famous Emperour Marcus Aurelius and the people of Rome That it was hard to judge whether he delighted more in having such a People or they in having such a Pastor But to return Captain Standish likewise brought the sad news of the death of Mr. Robert Cushman their ancient friend The death of Mr. Robert Cushman whom the Lord took away also this year about the same time who was as their right hand with their friends the Adventurers and for divers years had done and agitated all their business with them to their great advantage of whom occasionally there hath been honourable mention formerly 〈◊〉 in this Book About this time they received divers Letters from their friends at Leyden in Holland full of sad lamentation for their heavy loss by the death of their Pastor Mr. Robinson above-named and although their wills were good to come over to their brethren in New-England yet they saw no probability of means how it might be effected but concluded as it were that all their hopes was cut off and many being aged began to drop away by death All which things before related being well weighed and laid together it could not but strike them with great perplexity and to look humanely on the state of things as they presented themselves at this time it is a marvel it did not wholly discourage and sink them but they gathered up their spirits and the Lord so helped them whose work they had in hand as now when they were very low they began to rise again and being stripped in a manner of all humane helps and hopes he brought things about otherwise in his divine Providence so as they were not only upheld and sustained but their proceedings both honoured and imitated by others as by the sequel will appear 1627. THis Year they sent Mr. Isaac Allerton for England and gave him order to make a Composition with the Adventurers in reference unto some particulars betwixt the Plantation and them which Captain Standish had begun as is before hinted and at the ordinary season of the year for the expectation of ships he returned with some success in the business he was imployed in Likewise this Year they began to make some distribution of Lands having had hitherto but to every person one Acre allowed him as to propriety besides their Home-steads or Garden-plots the reason was that they might keep together both for more safety and defence and the better Improvement of the general Imployments which condition of theirs brings to minde that which may be read in Pliny of the Romans first beginnings in Romulus time Pliny lib. 18. Chap. 2. how every man contented himself with two Acres of Land and had no more assigned them and Chap. 3. It was thought a great Reward to receive at the hands of the People of Rome a Pinte of Corn and long after the greatest Present given to a Captain that had got a Victory over their Enemies was as much ground as he could Till in one day and he was not accounted a good but a dangerous man that would not content himself with seven Acres of Land as also how they did pound their Corn in Mortars as these people were forced to do many years before they could get a Mill. Notwithstanding as abovesaid so small a portion of Land served them at the first yet afterwards for divers Reasons moving thereunto they were necessitated to lay out some larger Proportions to each person yet resolving to keep such a mean in distribution of Lands as should not hinder their growth by others coming to them and therefore accordingly allotted to every one in each Family Twenty Acres to be laid out five Acres in breadth by the Water-side and four Acres in length I may not omit the inserting of a particular that fell out this year in reference unto a Ship with many Passengers in her and some considerable goods which was bound for Virginia who had lost themselves at Sea either by the insufficiency of the Master or his illness for he was sick and lame of the Scurvy so as he could but lye in the Cabbin-door and give direction and it should seem was badly assisted either with Mate or Marriners or else the fear of and the unruliness of the Passengers was such as they made them steer a Course between the Southwest and Northwest that they might fall with some Land whatever it was they cared not for they had been six weeks at Sea and had no Beer nor Water nor Wood left but had burnt up all their empty Cask onely one of the Company had a Hogshead of Wine or two which was also almost spent so as they feared they should be starved at Sea or consumed with Diseases which made them run this desperate Course But it pleased God that although they came so near the Sholes of Cape Cod or else ran stumbling over them in the night they knew not how they came before a small Harbour that lieth about the middle of Mannamoiet Bay to the Southward of Cape Cod and with a small gale of wind and about a high water touched upon a Barre of Sand that lieth before it but had no hurt the Sea being smooth so they laid out an Anchor but towards Evening the wind sprang up at Sea and was so rough as brake their Cable and beat them over the Barre into the Harbour where they saved their Lives and Goods

time of his imprisonment his wife fell sick of which sickness she died He procured liberty of the Bishop to visit his Wife before her death and commended her to God by Prayer who soon after gave up the ghost at his return to Prison his poor Children being many repaired to the Bishop to Lambeth and made known unto him their miserable condition by reason of their good Father his being continued in close durance who commiserated their condition so far as to grant him his liberty who soon after came over into New-England and setled for some time at the Town of Scituate and was chosen Pastour of their Church and faithfully dispensed the Word of God amongst them and afterwards the said Church dividing a part whereof removing to Barnstable he removed with them and there remained until his death He was a man of an humble and broken heart and spirit lively in dispensation of the Word of God studious of peace furnished with godly contentment willing to spend and to be spent for the Cause and Church of Christ He fell asleep in the Lord Nov. 8. 1653. 1654. THis Year Mr. William Bradford was Elected Governour of the Jurisdiction of New-Plimouth were Chosen Assistants to him in Government Mr. Thomas Prince Captain Miles Standish Mr. William Collier Mr. Timothy Hatherly Mr. John Brown Mr. John Alden and Capt. Thomas Willet 1655. THis Year Mr. William Bradford was Elected Governour of the Jurisdiction of New-Plimouth were Chosen Assistants to him in Government Mr. Thomas Prince Captain Miles Standish Mr. William Collier Mr. Timothy Hatherly Mr. John Brown Mr. John Alden and Captain Thomas Willet The death of Mr. Winslow This year that Worthy and Honourable Gentleman Mr. Edward Winslow deceased of whom I have had occasion to make honourable mention formerly in this Discourse He was the Son of Edward VVinslow Esq of the Town of Draughtwich in the County of Worcester He travelling into the Low-Countreys in his Journeys fell into acquaintance with the Church of Leyden in Holland unto whom he joyned and with whom he continued until they parted to come into New-England he coming with that part that came first over and became a very worthy and useful Instrument amongst them both in the place of Government and otherwise until his last Voyage for England being sent on special Imployment for the Government of the Massachusets as is forementioned in this Book and afterwards was imployed as one of the grand Commissioners in that unhappy Design against Domingo in Hispaniola who taking grief for the ill success of that Enterprize on which together with some other Infirmities that were upon him he fell sick at Sea betwixt Domingo and Jamaica and died the eighth day of May which was about the Sixty first year of his life and his Body was honourably committed to the Sea with the usual Solemnity of the Discharge of Fourty two Piece of Ordnance One of the Company who was imployed in taking notice of the Particulars of that Tragedy gave such Testimony of the said Mr. VVinslow as followeth in this Poem The Eighth of May west from ' Spaniola shore God took from us our Grand Commissioner Winslow by Name a man in Chiefest Trust VVhose Life was sweet and Conversation just VVhose Parts and wisdome most men did excell An honour to his Place as all can tell 1656. THis Year Mr. William Bradford was Chosen Governour of the Jurisdiction of New-Plimouth were chosen to be his Assistants in Government Mr. Thomas Prince Mr. William Collier Mr. Timothy Hatherly Captain Miles Standish Mr. John Alden Capt. Thomas Willet Capt. James Cudworth This Year Captain Miles Standish expired his mortal life He was a Gentleman born in Lancashire The death of Capt. Standish and was Heir-Apparent unto a great Estate of Lands and Livings surreptitiously detained from him his great Grandfather being a Second or Younger Brother from the House of Standish In his younger time he went over into the Low-Countreys and was a Souldier there and came acquainted with the Church of Leyden and came over into New-England with such of them as at the first set out for the Planting of the Plantation of New-Plimouth and bare a deep share of their first Difficulties and was alwayes very faithful to their Interest He growing ancient became sick of the Stone or Strangullion whereof after his suffering of much dolorous pain he fell asleep in the Lord and was honourably buried at Duxbury 1657. THis year Mr. Thomas Prince was Chosen Governour of the Jurisdiction of New-Plimouth Were Chosen his Assistants in Government This Election was on the fifth of June 1657. M William Bradford died the 9th of May in this year before this Election Mr. VVilliam Collier Mr. Timothy Hatherly Mr. John Alden Captain Thomas VVillet Capt. James Cudworth Capt. Josias VVinslow Lieut. Tho Southworth This Year it pleased God to put a period to the life of his precious Servant Mr. VVilliam Bradford who was the second Governour of the Jurisdiction of Plimouth and continued in the same place for the most part of his time with little intermission Concerning whom the following Poems made the one by himself and the other by such as were well acquainted with his Worth and Excellency will give a large Testimony thereof Certain Verses left by the Honoured VVilliam Bradford Esq Governour of the Jurisdiction of Plimouth penned by his own hand declaring the gracious dispensation of Gods Providence towards him in the time of his Life and his preparation and fittedness for Death FRom my years young in dayes of Youth God did make known to me his Truth And call'd me from my Native place For to enjoy the Means of Grace In Wilderness he did me guide And in strange Lands for me provide In Fears and Wants through Weal and Woe As Pilgrim past I to and fro Oft left of them whom I did trust How vain it is to rest on Dust A man of Sorrows I have been And many Changes I have seen Wars Wants Peace Plenty have I known And some advanc'd others thrown down The humble poor cheerful and glad Rich discontent sower and sad VVhen Fears with Sorrows have been mixt Consolations came betwixt Faint not poor Soul in God still trust Fear not the things thou suffer must For whom he loves he doth chastise And then all Tears wipes from their eyes Farewell dear Children whom I love Your better Father is above VVhen I am gone he can supply To him I leave you when I dye Fear him in Truth walk in his Wayes And he will bless you all your dayes My dayes are spent Old Age is come My Strength it fails my Glass near run Now I will wait when work is done Vntill my happy Change shall come VVhen from my labours I shall rest VVith Christ above for to be blest By the honoured Major Josias Winstow on the the said Mr. William Bradford as followeth WILLIAM BRADFORD Anagr. I made Law for Bridl ' For