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A85452	America painted to the life. A true history of the originall undertakings of the advancement of plantations into those parts, with a perfect relation of our English discoveries ... 1628. to 1658. declaring the forms of their government, policies, religions, manners, customes, military disciplines, warres with the Indians, the commodities of their countries, a description of their townes, and havens, the increase of their trading with the names of their governours and magistrates. More especially an absolute narrative of the north parts of America, and of the discoveries and plantations of our English in New-England. Written by Sir Ferdinando Gorges .... Publisht ... by his grand-child Ferdinando Gorges Esquire, who hath much enlarged it and added severall accurate descriptions of his owne.	Gorges, Ferdinando, Sir, 1556?-1647.; Gorges, Ferdinando, 1629-1718.	1658 (1658)	Wing G1300; Thomason E969_3	181,058	245

good and ill provent But God both time and means hath at 's command Dunster in time to his N. E. hath sent VVhen England 'gan to keep at home their guides N. E. began to pay their borrowed back Jndustrious Dunster providence provides Our friends supply and yet our selves no lack VVith restless labour thou dost delve and dung Surculus set in garden duly tended That in Christs Orchard they with fruit full hung May bless the Lord thy toil gone them expended Thy constant course proves retrograde in this From West to East thy toil returns again Thy husbandry by Christ so honored is That all the world partaketh of thy pains CHAP. XX. Of the planting of the one and twentieth Church of Christ at a Town called Glocester and of the Church and Town of Dover and of the hardships that befel a certain people who thirsted aftor large liberty in a warm Country FOr the Government of this little Commonwealth this year was chosen for Governour Richard Belingham Esquire and John Endiout Esquire for Governors the number of Freemen added this year were about 503. There was another Town and Church of Christ erected in the Mattachuset Government upon the Northern-Cape of the Bay called Cape Ann a place of fishing being peopled with Fishermen till the reverend Mr. Richard Blindman came from a place in Plimouth Patten called Green-Harbor with some few people of his acquaintance and setled down with them named the Town Glocester and gathered into a Church being but a small number about fifty persons they called to office this godly reverend man whose gifts and abilities to handle the word is not inferiour to many others labouring much against the errors of the times of a sweet humble heavenly carriage This Town lying out toward the point of the Cap● the access thereunto by Land becomes uneasie which was the chief cause it was no more populated Their fishing ●●●de would be very beneficial had they men of estates to mannage it yet are they not without other means of maintenance having good timber for shipping and a very sufficient builder but that these times of combustion the Seas throughout hath hindered much that work yet have there ●●en Vessels built here at this Town of late Their reverend Elder is here remembred THou hast ●ky prime and middle age here spent The best is not too good for him that gave it When thou did'st first this Wilderness frequent For Sious sake it was that Christ might save it Blinman be blith in him who thee hath taken To feed his Flock a few poor scattered sheep Why should they be of thee at all forsaken Thy honor 's high that any thou may'st keep Wait patiently thy Masters coming thou Hast hitherto his peoples portions dealt It matters not for high preferment now Thy crown 's to come with joyes immortal felt About this time the people inhabiting the Town of Dover although they lay out of any of these Colonies mentioned yet hearing and seeing with what sweet harmony both in Churches and civil Government the Mattachusets peopled patten was carried on prosperonsly desired greatly to submit unto the same by putting themselves under their protection and for that end they petitioned their General Cort to admit of them and administer Justice as occasion served by the hands of their godly Magistrates which accordingly was granted and they have been partakers of the benefit hitherto having also the benefit of some one Minister to preach unto them till it pleased God to fit stones by the continual hewing of his word for his Temple-work and they gather a Church according to the rule of the word and called to office of a Pastor one M. Maude both godly both godly and diligent in the work This Town is scituate upon Puscataque river lying to the Northeast of Boston which river although it be not nigh so broad as Merrinaeck river yet i● it navigable being very deep and her banks in many place fil'd with stately timber which hath caused one or two Saw Mills to be continued there they have a good quantity o● Meddow Land and good ground for India corn To end th● year 1641. the Lord was pleased to send a very sharp Winte● in so much that the Harbor where Ships ordinarily Anchor wa● frozen over of such a thickness that it became passeable bot for horse carts and oxen for the space of five weeks An here the Reader must be minded of the wonder-working providence of Christ for his poor Churches in altering the ve●● season for their comfort to the wonder of English and Ind●ans the Winter and Summer proving more moderate both for heat and cold unmasking many by this means it being a frequent thing with some that after the novelties of a new la●d began to be stale with them and the sweet nourishment of the soul by the presence of Christ in the preaching of his Word began to dry up through the hot heady conceit of some new conceived opinion Then they wanted a warmer country and every Northwest wind that blew they crept into some odd chimney-corner or other to discourse of the diversity of Climates in the Southerne parts but chiefly of a thing very sweet to the pallate of the flesh called liberty which they supposed might be very easily attain'd could they but once come into a place where all men were chosen to the office of a Magistrate and all were preachers of the Word and no hearers then it would be all Summer and no Winter This consultation was to be put in practise speedily as all headstrong motions are but the issue proved very sad both to these and others also for thus it befell when the time of the year was come that a sea-voyage might be undertaken they having made sale of a better accommodation then any they could afterward attain unto prepare for the voyage with their wifes and children intending to land them in one of the Summer Islands called the Isle of Providence and having wind and seas favouring them as they supposed or to speak more proper the provident hand of the most high God directing it they were brought so neer the shore for convenient landing that they might have heaved a Bisket cake on land their Pilate wondring he could not see the English colours on the Fort he began to mistrust the Island was taken and more especially because they saw not the people appear upon the shores as they usually did when any Vessel was a coming in but now and then they saw some people a far off wasting to them to come in till they were even come to an Anchor and then by the hoising up and down the heads of those on shore they were fully confirmed in it that the Island was taken as indeed it was by the Spaniards who as soone as they tackt about to be gone made shot at them and being in great fear they made all the fail they could but before they could get out of shot the Master

year The Town of Readding had her foundation stone laid about this time this and the Town of Wooburn were like the twins in the womb of Tamar Readding thrusting forth the hand first but Wooburn came first to the birth this Town is well watered and scituate about a great pond besides it hath two mills the one a Saw-mill the other a 〈◊〉 mill which stand on two several streams it hath not been ●o fruitful for children as her Sister hath her habitation is fallen in the very center of the country they are well stocked with cattel for the number of people they have they gathered into a church and ordained a Pastor from among themselves at the same time a young man of good abilities to preach the Word and of a very humble behaviour named Mr. Green he having finished his course departed this life not long after whose labours are with the Lord after him succeeded in the place one Mr. Hoph a young man one of the first fruits of N. E. a man studious to promote the truths of Christ they are both remembred in this following verse ON earths bed thou at noon hast laid thy head You that for Christ as Green here toy I have taken When nature fails then rest it in earths dead Till Christ by 's word with glory thee awaken Young Hoph thou must be second to this man In field incounter with Christ's foes shalt thou Stand up and take his bright sword in thy hand Error cut down and make stout stomacks bow Green 's gone before thy warfare's now begun And last it may to see Romes Babel fall Byweakest means Christ mighty works hath done Keep footing fast till Christ thee hence do call The next Town and church of Christ planted in this colony was between Salem and Ipswitch Salem the eldest of all the Sisters was very helpful to this her little Sister nourishing her up in her own bosom till she came of age being beneficial to her besides in giving her a good portion of Land this Town is called Wenham and is very well watered as most in land Towns are the people live altogether upon husbandry New England having train'd up great store to this occupation they are encreased in cattel and most of them live very well yet are they no great company they were some good space of time there before they gathered into a Church-body the godly and reverend Mr. John Fisk went thither with them at first setting down as a planter among them yet withal he became helpful in preaching the Word unto them when they were but a few in number they afterward call'd him to the office of a Pastor with whom he now remains labouring in the Word and Doctrine with great industry of whom it may be thus said TO wade through toyl of Wilderness thou hast D●ubled thy work thy wages troble are Christ hath thee call'd and in his vineyard plac't He 'l bear thee up above all sai●ting far Sions strong Mount must now again be built Thy faith oh Fisk the Lord hath holpen much With dreadful sigh● the P●●lars power hath spilt All pride he 'l stain by his almighty touch His truths unstain'd by liberty keep thou To please the most authority must fall What Christ hath given if safely keep with you Till he to thee for thine accompt do call CHAP. XXVI Of the military affairs the forts of Bostoa and Charles the Castle erected anew by the six neerest Towns with the manner of putting the Country in a posture of war to be ready upon all occasions THese souldiers of Christ Jesus having made a fair retreat from their Native country hither and now being come to a convenient station resolved to stand it out the Lord assisting against all such as should come to rob them of their priviledges which the Lord Christ had purchased for them at a very high rate and now out of the riches of his grace was minded to give them yet would he have them follow him into this Wilderness for it although the chiefest work of these select bands of Christ was to mind their spiritual warfare yet they knew right well the Temple was surrounded with walls and bulworks and the people of God in re-edifying the same did prepare to resist their enemies with weapons of war even while they continued building This people no less diligent to make use of such means as the Lord afforded them ordered and decreed That all the souldiers belonging to the 26. bands in the Mattachusets Government should be exercised and drill'd eight daies in a yeare and whosoever should absent himself except it were upon unavoidable occasion should pay 5. s. for every daies neglect there are none exempt unless it be a few timerous persons that are apt to plead infirmity if the Church chuse them not for Deacous or they cannot get to serve some Magistrate or Minister but assuredly the generalicy of this people are very forward for feats of war and many have spent their time and estates to further this work the Town of Boston hath afforded many active Charles Town hath not been inferiour unless it be in number This year the Court appointed certain persons to spend their skill in putting the people possessing this desolate desart in a ready posture of drawing their forces together upon any suddain accident that might befall them to mannage guide order and direct all things as may be best for the good of the whole they being a poor and mean people laboured to avoid high titles yet order they knew was necessary therefore ordained they only one General Officer in time of war under the name of Major General the Governor and Magistrates for the time being are the standing Councel for peace or war and either they or the General Court may appoint any to the office of a General the first Major-General was the much honored Tho. Dudly Esquire whose faithfulness and great zeal and love to the truths of Christ caused the people to chuse him to this office although he were far stricken in years the Government is divided into four Counties which to shew they would their posterity should mind whence they came they have named Suffolk Middlesex Essex and Northfolk each containing a Regiment over whom the chief Commander is only a Serjeant-Major the first chosen to this office over the Regiment of Suffolk was Major Edw. Gibbons who hath now the office of Major-General also he is a man of a resolute spirit bord as a Lion being wholly tutor'd up in N.E. Discipline very generous and forward to promote all military matters his Forts are well contrived and batteries strong and in good repair his great Artillery well mounted and cleanly kept half Canon Culverins and Sakers as also field-pieces of brass very ready for service his own company led by Capt. Lievtenant Sarag are very compleat in their arms and many of them disciplin'd in the military garden beside their ordinary trainings the Captains under him are Caps

will cut off from the city of the Lord the wicked doers and if any man can shew wherein any of them derogate from the Word of God very willingly will they accept thereof and amend their imperfections the Lord assisting but let not any ill affected persons find fault with them because they suit not with their own humour or because they meddle with matters of Religion for it is no wrong to any man that a people who have spent their estates many of them and ventured their lives for to keep faith and a pure conscience to use all means that the Word of God allows for maintenance and continuance of the same especially they having taken up a desolate Wilderness to be their habitation and not deluded any by keeping their profession in huggermug but print and proclaim to all the way and course they intend God willing to walk in if any will yet notwithstanding seek to justle them out of their own right let them not wonder if they meet with all the opposition a people put to their greatest straits can make as in all their undertaking their chiefest aim hath been to promote the Ordinances of Christ so also in contriving their Laws Liberties and Priviledges they have not been wanting which hath caused many to maligne their civil Government and more especially for punishing any by a Law that walk conrrary to the rule of the Gospel which they profess but to them it seems unreasonable and savours too much of hypocrisie that any people should pray unto the Lord for the speedy accomplishment of his Word in the overthrow of Antichrist and in the mean time become a Patron to sinful opinions and damnable errors that oppose the truths of Christ admit it be but in the bare permission of them CHAP. VI. Of the Lords wonder-working Providence in fitting this people with all kind of Manufactures and the bringing of them into the order of a Commonwealth ON the day of Election for Governor and Magistrates which are new chosen every year the honored John Winthrope Esquire was chosen Governor and the like honored Thomas Dudly Esquire Deputy Governor John Endicut Esquire was chosen Major-General which is an Officer the Freemen make a yearly choice of all other Military Officers stand for 〈◊〉 of life unless any be put out for misdemeanour the member of freemen added this year were about 85. the Land affording very good ●●on stone divers persons of good ●ack and quality in England were stirred up by the provident hand of the Lord to venture their estatee upon an hon work which they began at Braintree and profited the owners little but rather wasted their stock which caused some of them to tell away the Kmainder the chief reason being the high price of labour which ordinarily was as much more as in England and in many things treble the way of going on with such a work here was not sudd●inly to be disterned although the Steward had a very able eye yet experience nath out-stript learning here and the most quick-sighted in the Theory of things have been forced to pay prety mundly to Lady Experience for filling their heads with a sittle of her active after-wit much hope there is now that the owners may pick up their crums again if they be but made partakers of the gain in putting off England commodities at N. E. price it will take off one third of the great price they gave for labour and the price of their iron it is supposed another third is taken of the abundance of wood had for little will surely take off the residue besides land at easie rates and common land free for their use it were to be desired that those Gentlemen who have undertaken the work would consider the place where their works are namely in N. E. where the Lord Christ hath chosen to plant his Churches in to hide his people under the covert of his wings till the tyranny of Antichrist be over-passed and any that have disbursed pence for the furthering of his work shall be repayed with thousands Besides the Gentlemen that govern this Colony are very desirous to be helpful in what they may and had rather take any burthens upon themselves and the Inhabitants that in justice they ought then that those Gentlemen should be any wayes damnified The Lord is pleased also to compleat this Commonwealth abundantly beyond all expectation in all sorts of needful occupations it being for a lo●g time the great fear of many and those that were endued with grace from above also that this would be no place of continued habitation for want of a staple-commodity but the Lord whose promises are large to his Sion hath blest his peoples provision and satisfied her poor with bread in a very little space every thing in the country proved a staple-commodity wheat rye oats peas barley beef pork fish butter cheese timber mast tar sope plank-board frames of hous●s clabboard and pipestaves iron and lead is like to be also and those who were formerly forced to fetch most of the bread they eat and beer they drink a hundred leagues by Sea are through the blessing of the Lord so encreased that they have not only fed their Elder Sisters Virginia Barbados and many of the Summer Islands that were prefer'd before her for fruitfulness but also the Grandmother of us all even the firtil Isle of Great Britain beside Portugal hath had many a mouthful of bread and fish from us in exchange of their Madeara liquor and also Spain nor could it be imagined that this Wilderness should turn a mart for Merchants in so short a space Holland France Spain and Portugal coming hither for trade shipping going on gallantly till the Seas became so troublesome and England restrain'd our trade forbidding it with Barbados c. and Portugal stopt and took our ships many a fair ship had her framing and finishing here besides lesser vessels barques and ketches many a Master beside commoa Seamen had their first learning in this Colony Boston Charles-Town Salem and Ipswitch our Maritan Towns began to encrease roundly especially Boston the which of a poor country village in twice seven years is become like unto a small City and is in election to be Mayor Town suddainly chiefly increased by trade by Sea yet of late the Lord hath given a check to our traffique but the reason may be rendred hereafter nor hath this Colony alone been actors in this trade of venturing by Sea but New-haven also who were many of them well experienced in traffique and had good estates to mannage it Canectiso did not linger behind but put forth to Sea with the other all other trades have here fallen into their ranks and places to their great advantage especially Coopers and Shomakers who had either of them a Corporation granted inriching themselves by their trades very much Coopers having their plenty of stuff at a cheap rate and by reason of trade with forraign parts abandance of