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A50390	A brief narrative of the success which the Gospel hath had, among the Indians, of Martha's-Vineyard (and the places adjacent) in New-England. With some remarkable curiosities, concerning the numbers, the customes, and the present circumstances of the Indians on that island. Further explaining and confirming the account given of those matters, by Mr. Cotton Mather in the life of the renowned Mr. John Eliot. By Matthew Mayhew. Whereto is added, An account concerning the present state of Christianity among the Indians, in other parts of New-England: expressed in the letters of several worthy persons, best acquainted therewithall.	Mayhew, Matthew, 1648-1710.	1694 (1694)	Wing M1436; ESTC R214153	20,858	59

the other Indians in morall Vertue so likewise from other Judicious Persons their Neighbours of whom I shall name Mr. William Vobes a Person now representing the Freeholders of those parts in the Great and General Assembly of the Province of the Massachuset-Bay in New England nor have these People as yet dependance on nor Expectation from any other than their Mother the Church of Martha's Vineyard Of the Indians Government when Christian I have already told my Reader that the Government of this People was the best of all Governments Monarchy and it has been judged not without reason that a main obstruction in the progress of the Gospel in the American Plantations was if not yet is the jealousy the Princes conceived of the Invasion of their Government through the pretences o● Religion and the Eclipsing their Monarchies Dignity The ever Honoured Thomas Mayhew there fore finding that the Princes on these Islands who although they maintained their obsolute Power and Jurisdiction as Kings were ye● bound to doe certain Homage to a Poten● Prince on the Continent and although they were no great People yet had been waste● by Intestine Wars wherein the great Princes on the Continent not unlike European Princes for like Reasons of State were not unassisting whereby they were necessitated to make these Princes the ballance to decide their Controversies and several Jurisdictions by presents annually sent whereby obliging the Princes to give their several Assistance as occasion required and seeing his Son as aforesaid in a zealous indeavour for their Conversion he judged it meet that Moses and Aaron joyn hands he therefore prudently lets them know that by order from his Master the King of England he was to Govern the English which should inhabit these Islands that his Master was in Power far above any of the Indian Monarches but that as he was powerfull so was he a great lover of Justice that therefore he would in no measure invade their Jurisdictions but on the contrary Assist them as need required that Religion and Government were distinct things Thus in no long time they conceived no ill Opinion of the Christian Religion When afterwards the number of the Christian Indians were increased among them he perswaded them to admit of the Counsils of the Judicious Christians among themselves and in cases of more than ordinary consequence of a Jury for Tryal when likewise he promised his Assistance and direction with the Prince when notwithstanding the Princes assent was to be obtained though he were no Christian Thus within a few years there was a happy Government settled among them and Records kept of all Actions and Acts passed in their several Courts by such who having learned to Write fairly were appointed thereto The Princes with their Sachims or Nobles made Publick acknowledgment of their Subjection to the King of England being notwithstanding mindful to be understood as Subordinate Princes to Govern according to the Laws of God and the King Here I shall take leave to insert two remarkables During the late unhappy War between the English and Indians in New-England about Nineteen years since an Evil Spirit possessed too many of our English whereby they suffered themselves to be unreasonably exasperated against all Indians of such there were some on these Islands who could hardly be so moderated by Mr. Mayhew and others in Government with him as to be restrained from rising to assay the disarming of the Indians for whose satisfaction Capt. Richard Sarson Esq was ordered with a small party the Indians being on these Islands Twenty to one having Arms to Treat the Indians on the West end of Martha's Vineyard who were mostly to be doubted he returns with the insuing answer that the delivering their Arms would expose them to the will of the Indians ingaged in the present War who were not less theirs than the Enemies of the English that they had never given occasion of the distrust intimated if in any thing not hazarding their safety they could give any Satisfaction for proof of their Fidelity they would willingly attend what should reasonably be demanded of them but they were unwilling to deliver their Arms unless the English would propose some mean for their safety and livelyhood with this return they drew a Writing in their own Language which I have often read and would have Verbatim inserted but cannot at present find it the Substance was that as they had Submitted to the Crown of England so they resolved to Assist the English on these Islands against their Enemies which they esteemed in the same respect equally their own as Subjects to the same King which was Subcribed by the Persons of greatest note among them Having this answer the Government resolved and accordingly improved them as a guard furnishing them with suitable Amunition and found them so faithful that even some neerly related in observance of general instructions given them so soon as they landed from the Continent were immediately brought before the Governour to attend his pleasure insomuch that the English although the War with respect to the multitude of Indians inhabiting the Continent and their advantage by the neerness to the French had no good aspect took no care but left the whole to the Indians nothing doubting to be advertised by them of any danger from the Enemy This was the effect of the bringing the Gospel of Peace among them Viz. a Peace-bringing Gospel The other observable I shall add to show as their Loyalty so their observance of the Laws of England In the time of the late Revolution when many in hopes there was no King in Israel expected to have done what they saw good in their own eyes Several of our English threatning to fetch certain Sheep in possession of the Indians inhabiting a small Island Adjacent to Martha's Vineyard which Sheep they asserted were Stolen from them who met with repulse the Sachim least there should happen any misunderstanding of that matter immediately makes his report to me in these words Viz. Several of your English have been on my Island and would have forceably taken Sheep from thence and we are much threatned therewith I am doubtfull if they persist in that Resolution it may Occasion Blood-shed you know that while your Grand-father and my Father lived there never happened any difference in such things nor hope will be Occasion given by me I desire the same Amity may be continued nor can the English say that we have not manifested our Allegiance to the King by a continued Subjection And although it is true we have desired your Order should come to us rather than your Officer which hath generally been observed yet we are willing in Case the English pretend any thing ours have injured them in let an Officer by writ from Authority doe his duty then we shall know how in an orderly way to be relieved yet shall the least Boy bringing your Order as in your Grandfathers time Command any thing and if you see cause

on any complaint about our Sheep you may command all of them hoping to find as hitherto a decision by the Rules of Justice we hope we shall not see as is too much practiced in other places an English man pretending an Indian to be in his debt to come to our Houses and pay himself or in other cases beat our People but as hitherto we may have equal Justice being the Kings Subjects and Violence and Riot committed on our People by the English may be esteemed of the same nature and quality as ours against them of which with the Justices we pray you would Consider and take speedy care I shall as to their Government only add that in their several Plantations or Town-ships they Elect three or more to joyn with the Sachims or Lords of the place who hold Courts for issuing such Controversies as happen among them the Sachim presiding in such Courts or in case he decline that Office another is Elected in his place if either party dislike the Judgment given he Appeals to a Superiour Court which consists of some of the most esteemed of each place being some of their Magistrates where some Principal Sachims is Elected to preside for one year and from this Court an Appeal lyes to the English Court. In giving Judgment they observe such rules and orders made and recorded among themselves and the English Law the knowledge whereof they much aspire unto They have likewise some among them whom the less able to declare or defend their own Cases improve as Attornies some of which are to admiration Critical in their pleadings I shall close the whole when I have told the Reader that their Children are generally taught to Read and many to Write in one of their Towns the last Winter Viz. 1693. Thirty Children were at School Twenty more of the same place at the same time accidentally being not supplyed with Books could not attend it Such who are too far distant from any School are often taught by some of their Neighbours in diverse places are lesser Schools CONCLUSION May if not a double yet a single Portion of the Spirit of an ELIOT of New England the Mayhews of Martha's Vineyard a Bourn of Sandwich in the late Colony of New-Plymouth fall on some Persons who may induced with an Holy Zeal for God and the Conversion of Souls according to their Example Be instant in Season and out of Season indure all things become all unto those miserable Creatures that if possible they may Win some not doing the Work of the Lord negligently by only Preaching a Sermon to such as desire to hear but by frequent visiting them and from House to House disputing with and convincing them shew that it is God and not themselves they Serve believing there is a great and Eternal Weight of Glory attending those whom their Lord shall find So Doing then may we hope to see a Blessing on this Land and Peace on our borders and the Indians bordering on us shall obey not out of Fear but for Conscience sake May the Indian Church send forth some from among themselves to the more Remote Indians with as good Success as when to the next bordering Indians May the Royal Hearts of our Gracious KING and QUEEN still favour so great and Glorious an undertaking to which may the LORD our GOD give His Blessing AMEN Postscript HAving among many things worthy of notice in the Precedent Discourse omitted some Remarkables of the Indian Converse with Infernal Spirits I thought meet to briefly touch some things therein Remarkable and to insert a Narrative of the Decease of a Prince memorable for his forsaking his People for the sake of Christ and his return with happy Success in Proselyting his Subjects to the Worship of God in Christ This I find Written on the out side of a Book in the Library of Mr. John Mayhew deceased which please to take as followeth Mittark Sachim rather Prince of the Gay-head on Martha's Vineyard Deceased January 1683. This Princes Subjects being resolved to continue in their Heathenism notwithstanding his imbracing the Gospel grew so disaffected to him that he for a time removed to the East end of Martha's Vineyard whither after three years abode at the said place he again returned having perswaded his People into a willingness that such who would might attend the glad Tydings he pretended to bring whereupon He himself opened to them the Mysteries of the Gospel dispencing the word to such as came to hear him insomuch that at this day that People are All Christians by Profession The day before his Death I being with him inquired of him concerning his hope who after he had treated some time of the Mutability of an earthly Life Said I have hope in God that when my Soul departeth out of this Body God will send His Messingers who shall Conduct it to Himself to be with Jesus Christ and then with great earnestness pronounced these words where that Everlasting Glory is As for my reasons said he I my self have had many wrongs of Enemies of whom I have sought no Revenge nor retained evil in thought word nor deed and I also expect the same from God but said he I proceed no further for God is very Mercifull then I asked him of his willingness to Dy he replyed It is now Seven Nights since I was taken Sick and I have not yet asked of God to live longer in the World In this World are some benefits to be injoyed also many troubles to be indured but with respect to the hope I have in God I am willing to dy here I am in pain there I shall be freed from all pain and injoy that Rest that never endeth Then pointing to his Daughters said There be three of my Daughters relating how they were disposed of and you my Daughters if you loose your Father Mourn not for me but Mourn for your selves and for your Sins Mourn not for me for though you are unwilling to spare me and I might be helpfull to you if I should Live longer in this World yet to dy is better for me Of Powaws or Persons improving the Infernal Spirits to Effect their intended Malicious harms I can inform of a Converted Sachim who in his Publick Protestation said as followeth Viz. That he having often imployed his god which appeared to him in form of a Snake to Kill Wound and Lame such whom he intended mischief to he imployed the said Snake to Kill and that failing to Wound or Lame Hiacooms the first Convert on Martha's Vineyard all which proved ineffectual and having seriously considered the said Hiacombs Assertion that none of the Powaw's could hurt him since his God whom he now Served was the Great God to whom theirs was subservient he resolved to worship the true God from which time during Seven years the said Snake gave him great disturbance but that he never after his Praying to God in Christ ever imployed that said Snake in any