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A46301	An account of two voyages to New-England wherein you have the setting out of a ship, with the charges, the prices of all necessaries for furnishing a planter and his family at his first coming, a description of the countrey, natives, and creatures, with their merchantil and physical use, the government of the countrey as it is now possessed by the English, &c., a large chronological table of the most remarkable passages, from the first dicovering of the continent of America, to the year 1673 / by John Josselyn, Gent.	Josselyn, John, fl. 1630-1675.	1674 (1674)	Wing J1091; ESTC R20234	110,699	292

or fifty pounds a year and is a quarter of a mile over The River Mistick runs through the right side of the Town and by its near approach to Charles-River in one place makes a very narrow neck where stands most part of the Town the market place not far from the waterside is surrounded with houses forth of which issue two streets orderly built and beautified with Orchards and Gardens their meeting-house stands on the North-side of the market having a little hill behind it there belongs to this Town one thousand and two hundred Acres of arable four hundred head of Cattle and as many Sheep these also provide themselves Farms in the Country Up higher in Charles-River west-ward is a broad Bay two miles over into which runs Stony River and Maddy-River Towards the South-west in the middle of the Bay is a great Oyster bank towards the North-west is a Creek upon the shore is situated the village of Medford it is a mile and half from Charles-town A● the bottom of the Bay the River begins to be narrower half a quarter of a mile broad by the North-side of the R●ver is New town three miles from Charles-town a league and half by water it was first intended for a City the neatest and best compacted Town having many fair structures and handsom contrived streets the Inhabitants rich they have many hundred Acres of land paled with one common fence a mile and half long and store of Cattle it is now called Cambridge where is a Colledg for Students of late it stretcheth from Charles-River to the Southern part of Merrimach-River Half a mile thence on the same side of the Rvier is Water-town built upon one of the branches of Charles-River very fruitful and of large extent watered with many pleasant springs and small Rivulets the Inhabitants live scatteringly Within half a mile is a great pond divided between the two Towns a mile and half from the Town is a fall of fresh waters which conveigh themselves into the Ocean through Charles-River a little below the fall of waters they have a wair to catch fish wherein they take store of Basse Shades Alwives Frost fish and Smelts in two tides they have gotten one hundred thousand of these fishes They have store of Cattle and Sheep and near upon two thousand Acres of arable land Ships of small burden may come up to these Towns We will now return to Charles-town again where the River Mistick runs on the North-side of the Town that is the right side as before said where on the Northwest-side of the River is the Town of Mistick three miles from Charles-town a league and half by water a scattered village at the head of this River are great and spacious ponds full of Alewives in the spring-time the notedst place for this sort of fish On the West of this River is M●rchant Craddock's plantation where he impaled a park Upon the same River and on the North-side is the Town of Malden The next Town is Winnisimet a mile from Charles-town the River only parting them this is the last Town in the still bay of Massachusets Without Pullin-point six miles North-cast from Winnisimet is Cawgust or Sagust or Sangut now called Linn situated at the bottom of a Bay near a River which upon the breaking up of winter with a furious Torrent vents it self into the Sea the Town consists of more than one hundred dwelling-houses their Church being built on a level undefended from the North-west wind is made with steps descending into the Earth their streets are straight and but thin of houses the people most husbandmen At the end of the Sandy beach is a neck of land called Nahant it is six miles in circumference Black William an Indian Duke out of his generosity gave this to the English At the mouth of the River runs a great Creek into a great marsh called Rumney-marsh which is four miles long and a mile broad this Town hath the benefit of minerals of divers kinds Iron Lead one Iron mill store of Cattle Arable land and meadow To the North-ward of Linn is Marvil or Marble-head a small Harbour the shore rockie upon which the Town is built consisting of a few scattered houses here they have stages for fishermen Orchards and Gardens half a mile within land good pastures and Arable land Four miles North of Marble-head is situated New-Salem whose longitude is 315 degrees and latitude 42 degrees 35 minutes upon a plain having a River on the South and another on the North it hath two Harbours Winter Harbour and Summer Harbour which lyeth within Darbie's sort they have store of Meadow and Arable in this Town are some very rich Merchants Upon the Northern Cape of the Massachusets that is Cape-Aun a place of fishing is situated the Town of Glocester where the Massachusets Colony first set down but Salem was the first Town built in that Colony here is a Harbour for Ships To the North-ward of Cape-Aun is Wonasquam a dangerous place to sail by in stormie weather by reason of the many Rocks and soaming breakers The next Town that presents it self to view is Ipswich situated by a fair River whose first rise is from a Lake or Pond twenty mile up betaking its course through a hideous Swamp for many miles a Harbour for Bears it issueth forth into a large Bay where they fish for Whales due East over against the Islands of Sholes a great place of fishing the mouth of that River is barr'd it is a good haven-town their meeting-house or Church is beautifully built store of Orchards and Gardens land for husbandry and Cattle Wenham is an inland Town very well watered lying between Salem and Ipswich consisteth most of men of judgment and experience in re rustica well stored with Cattle At the first rise of Ipswich-River in the highest part of the land near the head springs of many considerable Rivers Shashin one of the most considerable branches of Merrimach River and also at the rise of Mistick River and ponds full of pleasant springs is situated Wooburn an inland-Town four miles square beginning at the end of Charles-town bounds Six miles from Ipswich North-east is Rowley most of the Inhabitants have been Clothiers Nine miles from Salem to the North is Agowamine the best and spaciousest place for a plantation being twenty leagues to the Northward of New-Plimouth Beyond Agowamin is situated Hampton near the Sea-coasts not far from Merrimach-River this Town is like a Flower-deluce having two streets of houses wheeling off from the main body thereof they have great store of salt Marshes and Cattle the land is fertil but full of Swamps and Rocks Eight miles beyond Agowamin runneth the delightful River Merrimach or Monumach it is navigable for twenty miles and well stored with fish upon the banks grow stately Oaks excellent Ship timber not interiour to our English On the South-side of Merrimach-River twelve miles from Ipswich and near upon the wide venting streams

9 leagues off our course W. S. W. the Start bore North distant about 6 leagues from whence our reckonings began the wind now E. N. E. a fair gale The second day the Lizard bore N. N. W. in the latitude 51.300 leagues from Cape-Cod in New England our course W. and by S. One of our passengers now dyed of a Consumption The Fifth day we steered S. W. observed and found the ship in latitude 47 degrees and 44 minutes The Tenth day observed and found the ship in la●i●ude 49 degrees and 24 minutes The Five and twentieth day about 3 of the clock in t●e morning we discovered land about 6 of the clock Flowers so called from abundance of flowers and Corvo from a multitude of Crowes two of the Azor●● or western Islands in the Atlantique Ocea● not above 250 leagues form Lisbon bo●● N. W. of us some 3 leagues off we steere● away W. by W. observed and found Flowe●● to be in the Southern part in latitude 39 degrees 13 minuts we descryed a Village and a small Church or Chappel seated in a pleasant valley to the Easter-side of the Island the whole Island is rockie and mountanious about 8 miles in compass stored with Corn Wine and Goats and inhabited by out-law'd Portingals the Town they call Santa Cruz. Corvo is not far from this I supposed two or three leagues a meer mountain and very high and steep on all sides cloathed with tall wood on the very top uninhabited but the Flowreans here keep some number of Goats The Seven and twentieth day 30 leagues to the westward of these Islands we met with a small Vessel stoln from Jamaico but 10 men in her and those of several nations English French Scotch Dutch almost samish'd having been out as they told us by reason of calms three moneths bound for Holland July the sixth calm now for two or three dayes our men went out to swim some hoisted the Shallop out and took divers Turtles there being an infinite number of them all over the Sea as far as we could ken and a man may ken at Sea in a clear Air 20 miles they floated upon the top of the water being a sleep and driving gently upon them with the Shallop of a sudden they took hold of their hinder legs and lifted them into the boat if they be not very nimble they awake and presently dive under water when they were brought aboard they sob'd and wept exceedingly continuing to do so till the next day that we killed them by chopping off their heads and having taken off their shells that on their back being fairest is called a Gally patch we opened the body and took out three hearts in one case and which was more strange we perceived motion in the hearts ten hours after they were taken out I have observed in England in my youthful dayes the like in the heart of a Pike and the heart of a Frog which will leap and skip as nimbly as the Frog used to do when it was alive from whom it was taken Likewise the heart of a Pig will stir after it is exenterated Being at a friends house in Cambridg-shire the Cook maid making ready to slaughter a Pig she put the hinder parts between her legs as the usual manner is and taking the snout in her lest hand with a long knife she stu●k the Pig and cut the 〈…〉 of the heart almost in two letting 〈…〉 as any bloud came forth 〈…〉 ●●●ing of it into a Kettle of boy●● 〈…〉 the Pig swom twice round a●●● the k●ttle when taking of it out to the dresser she rubd it with powdered Rozen and stript off the hair and as she was cutting off the hinder pettito the Pig lifts up his head with open mouth as if it would have bitten well the belly was cut up and the entrails drawn out and the heart laid upon the board which notwithstanding the wound it received had motion in it above four hours after there were several of the Family by with my self and we could not otherwayes conclude but that the Pig was bewitched but this by the way Of the Sea Turtles there be five sorts first the Trunck-turtle which is biggest Secondly the Loggerhead-turtle Thirdly the Hawkbill-turtle which with its bill will bite horribly Fourthly the Green-turtle which is best for food it is affirmed that the feeding upon this Turtle for a twelve moneth forbearing all other kind of food will cure absolutely Consumptions and the great pox They are a very delicate food and their Eggs are very wholesome and restorative it is an Amphibious Creature going ashore the male throws the female on her back when he couples with her which is termed cooting their Eggs grown to perfection the female goes ashore again and making a hole in the Sand there layes her Eggs which are numerous I have seen a peck of Eggs taken out of one Turtle when they have laid they cover the hole again with sand and return to the Sea never looking after her Eggs which hatching in the sand and coming to some strength break out and repair to the Sea Having fill'd our bellies with Turtles and Boni●o's called Spanish Dolphins excellently well cooked both of them the wind blowing fair The Eighth day we spread our sails and went on our voyage after a while we met with abundance of Sea-weeds called Gulfweed coming out of the Bay of Mexico and firr-trees floating on the Sea observed and found the Ship to be in 39 degrees and 49 minuts The Fifteenth day we took a young Sharke about three foot long which being drest and dished by a young Merchant a passenger happened to be very good fish having very white flesh in flakes like Codd but delicately curl'd the back-bone which is perfectly round joynted with short joynts the space between not above a quarter of an inch thick separated they make fine Table-men being wrought on both sides with curious works The One and twentieth thick hasie weather The Five and twentieth we met with a Plimouth man come from St. Malloes in France 10 weeks out laden with cloath fruit and honey bound for Boston in New-England The Six and twentieth we had sight of land The Seven and twentieth we Anchored at Nantascot in the afternoon I went aboard of a Ketch with some other of our passengers in hope to get to Boston that night but the Master of the Ketch would not consent The Eight and twentieth being Tuesday in the morning about 5 of the clock he lent us his Shallop and three of his men who brought us to the western end of the town where we landed and having gratified the men we repaired to an Ordinary for so they call their Taverns there where we were provided with a liberal cup of burnt Madera-wine and store of plum-cake about ten of the clock I went about my Affairs Before I pursue my Voyage to an end I shall give you to understand what Countrie New-England is New-England is that part

Town from the beginning of it to 1669 is just forty years in which time there hath been an increasing of forty Churches in this Colony but many more in the rest and Towns in all New-England one hundred and twenty for the most part along the Sea Coasts as being wholsomest for somewhat more than two hundred miles onely on Connecticut-River as I have said is thirteen Towns not far off one another The other Towns of note in this Colony are Green-Harbour to the Eastward of Plimonth towards the point of the Cape therefore somewhat unaccessible by land here is excellent Timber for shipping then Marshfield Yarmouth Rehoboth Bridgwater Warwick Taunton Eastham by the Indians called Namset The first Town Northeast from Greenbarbor is Sittuate in the jurisdiction of the Mattachusets-Colony more Northward of Sittuate is Conchusset and Hull a little Burg lying open to the Sea from thence we came to Merton-point over against which is Pullin-point Upon Merton-point which is on the Larboard-side is a Town called Nantascot which is two Leagues from Boston where Ships commonly cast Anchor Pullin-point is so called because the Boats are by the seasing or Roads haled against the Tide which is very strong it is the usual Channel for Boats to pass into Mattachusets-Bay There is an Island on the South-side of the passage containing eight Acres of ground Upon a rising hill within this Island is mounted a Castle commanding the entrance no stately Edifice nor strong built with Brick and Stone kept by a Captain under whom is a master-Gunner and others The Bay is large made by many Islands the chief Deere-Island which is within a flight shot of Pullin-point great store of Deere were wont to swim thither from the Main then Bird-Island Glass-Island Slate-Island the Governours Garden where the first Apple-Trees in the Countrey were planted and a vinyard then Round-Island and Noddles-Island not far from Charles-Town most of these Islands lye on the North-side of the Bay The next Town to Nantascot on the South-side of the Bay is Wissaguset a small Village about three miles from Mount-wolleston about this Town the soil is very sertile Within sight of this is Mount-wolleston or Merry-mount called Massachusets-fields where Chicatabat the greatest Sagamore of the Countrey lived before the plague here the Town of Braintree is seated no Boat nor Ship can come near to it here is an Iron mill to the West of this Town is Naponset-River S●x miles beyond Braintree lyeth Dorchester a frontire Town pleasantly seated and of large extent into the main land well watered with two small Rivers her body and wings filled somewhat thick with houses to the number of two hundred and more beautified with fair Orchards and Gardens having also plenty of Corn-land and store of Cattle counted the greatest Town heretofore in New-England but now gives way to Boston it hath a Harbout to the North for Ships A mile from Dorchester is the Town of Roxbury a fair and handsome Countrey Town the streets large the Inhabitants rich replenished with Orchards and Gardens well watered with springs and small freshets a brook runs through it called Smelt-River a quarter of a mile to the North-side of the Town runs stony River it is seated in the bottom of a shallow Bay but hath no harbour for shipping Boats come to it it hath store of Land and Cattle Two miles Northeast from Roxbury and Forty miles from New-Plimouth in the latitude of 42 or 43 degrees and 10 minutes in the bottom of Massachusets-Bay is Boston whose longitude is 315 degrees or as others will 322 degrees and 30 seconds So called from a Town in Lincolnshire which in the Saxons time bare the name of St. Botolph and is the Metropolis of this Colony or rather of the whole Countrey situated upon a Peninsula about four miles in compass almost square and invironed with the Sea saving one small Isthmus which gives access to other Towns by land on the South-side The Town hath two hills of equal height on the frontire part thereof next the Sea the one well fortified on the superficies with some Artillery mounted commanding any Ship as she sails into the Harbour within the still Bay the other hill hath a very strong battery built of whole Timber and fill'd with earth at the descent of the hill in the extreamest part thereof betwixt these two strong Arms lyes a large Cove or Bay on which the chiefest part of the Town is built to the Northwest is a high mountain that out-tops all with its three little rising hills on the summit called Tramount this is furnished with a Beacon and great Guns from hence you may overlook look all the Islands in the Bay and descry such Ships as are upon the Coast the houses are for the most part raised on the Sea-banks and wharfed out with great industry and cost many of them standing upon piles close together on each side the streets as in London and furnished with many fair shops their materials are Brick Stone Lime handsomely contrived with three meeting Houses or Churches and a Town-house built upon pillars where the Merchants may confer in the Chambers above they keep their monethly Courts Their streets are many and large paved with pebble stone and the South-side adorned with Gardens and Orchards The Town is rich and very populous much frequented by strangers here is the dwelling of their Governour On the North-west and Northeast two constant Fairs are kept for daily Traffick thereunto On the South there is a small but pleasant Common where the Gallants a little before Sun-set walk with their Marmalet-Madams as we do in Morefields c. till the nine a clock Bell rings them home to their respective habitations when presently the Constables walk their rounds to see good orders kept and to take up loose people Two miles from the town at a place called Muddy-River the Inhabitants have Farms to which belong rich arable grounds and meadows where they keep their Cattle in the Summer and bring them to Boston in the Winter the Harbour before the Town is filled with Ships and other Vessels for most part of the year Hingham is a Town situated upon the Sea-coasts South-east of Charles-River here is great store of Timber deal-boards masts for Ships white-Cedar and fish is here to be had Dedham an inland-town ten miles from Boston in the County of Suffolk well watered with many pleasant streams and abounding with Garden fruit the Inhabitants are Husbandmen somewhat more than one hundred Families having store of Cattle and Corn. The Town of Waymouth lyes open to the Sea on the East Rocks and Swamps to the South-ward good store of Deer arable ●and and meadows On the North-side of Boston flows Charles-River which is about six fathom deep many small Islands lye to the Bayward ●nd hills on either side the River a very good harbour here may forty Ships ride ●he passage from Boston to Charles-Town is ●y a Ferry worth forty

Domini 1668 Mr. Thomas Prince chosen Governour of New-Plimouth colony Mr. Richard Bellingham chosen Governour of the Massachusets colony Mr. Fr. Willowby Deputy Governour and Mr. Leveret major General Mr. Samuel Shepherd Pastor of Rowley Church dyed April the 27 Mr. Henry Flint Teacher at Braintry dyed July the Ninth Mr. Jonathan Mitchel Pastor of the Church at Cambridge dyed he was born at Halifax in Yorkeshire in England and was brought up in Harvard-Colledge at Cambridge in New-England July the Fifteenth nine of the clock at night an Eclipse of the moon till after Eleven darkned nine digits and thirty five minutes July the Seventeenth a●g at Sperma Caeti Whale Fifty five foot long thrown up a● Winter-harbour by Casco in the Province of Main April the Third Fryday an Earthquake in New-England Anno Domini 1669 Mr. Thomas Prince chosen Governour of Plimouth colony Mr. Richard Bellingham chosen Governour of the Massachusets colony Mr. Fr. Willowby Deputy Governour Mr. Leveret major General Mr. Oxenbridge chosen Pastor of the Independent Church at Boston The wonderful burning of the mountain Aetna or Gibella in Cicilia March Anno Domini 1670 Mr. Thomas Prince chosen Governour of New-Plimouth colony Mr. Richard Bellingham chosen Governour of the Massachusets colony Mr. Fr. Willowby Deputy Governour Mr. Leveret major General Mr. Fr. Willowby Deputy Governour now dyed At a place called Kenebunch which is in the Province of Main not far from the River-side a piece of clay ground was thrown up by a mineral vapour as was supposed over the tops of high oaks that grew between it and the River into the River stopping the course thereof and leaving a hole Forty yards square wherein were Thousands of clay bullets as big as musquet bullets and pieces of clay in shape like the barrel of a musquet The like accident fell out at Casco One and twenty miles from it to the Eastward much about the same time And fish in some ponds in the Countrey thrown up dead upon the banks supposed likewise to be kill'd with mineral vapours A wonderful number of Herrins cast up on shore at high water in Black-point-Harbour in the province of Main so that they might have gone half way the leg in them for a mile together Mr. Thatcher chosen Pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Boston Anno Domini 1671 Mr. Thomas Prince Governour of new Plimouth colony Mr. Richard Bellingham chosen Governour of the Massachusets colony Mr. Leveret D●puty and major General Elder Pen now dyed at Boston the English troubled much with griping of the guts and bloudy Flux of which several dyed October the Two and twentieth a Ship called the flying Falcon of Amsterdam arrived at Dover having been out since the first of January 1669 and been in the South-Seas in the latitude of 50 degrees having sailed 12900 Dutch leagues the master told us he made main land and discovered two Islands never before discovered where were men all hairy Eleven foot in height Anno Domini 1672 Mr. Richard Bellingham chosen Governour of the Massachusets colony Mr. Leveret Deputy and major General Anno Domini 1673 Mr. Richard Bellingham Governour of the Massachusets colony now deceased Anno Domini 1674 Thomas Leveret chosen Governour Mr. Simons Deputy Governour FINIS Books Printed for Giles Widdows at the Green-Dragon in St Pauls-Church-yard In Folio DR Homes his Miscellanea consisting of three Treatises 1. Exercitations touching the glorious Kingdom of Christ on earth yet to come 2. A review of or a fresh enquiry after Gog and Magog where to find them 3. Some glimpse of Israels call approaching from Scripture in a brief Chronologie of 15 years last past of the disputes of 300 Jewish Rabbies Mr. Davises three books belonging to an Un●formity in Churches in which the chief things of the laws of Nature and Nations and of the Divine law concerning the consistency of the Ecclesiastical Estate with the civil are unfolded A Book of the five senses in copper cuts In Quarto Dr. Sibbs Light from Heaven in 4 Treatises Mr. Bartons Remedy for Londons languishing Trade The younger Brothers Apologie for the Fathers free power in disposing of his Land to his Son Sons or any of them Octavo Mr. Stucleys Gospel-glass Representing the miscarriages of English Professors Mr. Gales Anatomy of Infidelity Mr. Prestons Directions for true spelling with Copies of Letters Bills of Parcels Bills of Exchange Bills of Debt Receipts with Rules and helps thereunto M. Val. Martialis Spectaculorum Liber Paraphrased The true English Interest or an account of the chief national Improvement in some political observations demonstrating an Infallible Advance of this Nation to infinite wealth and greatness Trade and Populacy with Imployment and Preferment for all persons by Carew Reynel Esq New-Englands Rarities discovered in Birds Beasts Fishes Serpents and plants of that Countrey Together with the Physical and Chirurgical Remedies wherewith the Natives constantly use to cure their distempers wounds and sores Also a description of an Indian Squa in all her Bravery with a Poem not improperly confer'd upon her Illustrated with cuts by J. J●sselin Gent. In 12. and 24. c. Dr. Collets Devotions or the Christians morning and evening Sacrifice digested into prayers and meditations with some short directions for a godly life How to revive the Golden Age with the true causes of the want of money and good Trading in these Kingdoms and how yet to Remedy them and to make these Kingdoms exceed all others in Riches and power Humbly presented to the Parliament Advertisement Dr. Buckworths Lozenges famous for the cure of Consumptions Coughs Catarihs Asshmas Phthisicks and all other diseases incident to the Lungs colds new and old Hoarsness shortness of breath and stoppages of the Stomach Also a Soveraign Antidote against the Plague His Homogen●al Pill Dr. Leckers Universal Pill Constant Rhodocanaces Spirit of Salt Spanish cases for Bibles and Common-Prayer of all sorts sold by Giles Widdows Book-seller at the Green-Dragon in St. Pauls Church-yard