Selected quad for the lemma: son_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
son_n	daughter_n	father_n	wife_n	56,678	5	8.2873	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07165	A relation of Maryland together, vvith a map of the countrey, the conditions of plantation, his Majesties charter to the Lord Baltemore, translated into English.	Cecil, Thomas, fl. 1630, engraver.; Maryland. aut	1635 (1635)	STC 17571; ESTC S109930	31,836	90

Smiths Booke of Virginia and Mr. Woods of New-England but he that is desirous to goe to Maryland shall heere find enough to informe him of what is necessary for him to know touching them By Captaine Smith's and many other Relations you may be informed that the People are War-licke and have done much harme to the English and thereby are made very terrible Others say that they are a base and cowardly People and to be contemned and it is thought by some who would be esteemed States-men that the only point of pollicie that the English can use is to destroy the Indians or to drive them out of the Countrey without which it is not to be hoped that they can be secure The truth is if they be injured they may well be feared they being People that have able bodies and generally taller and bigger limbed then the English and want not courage but the oddes wee have of them in our weapons keepes them in awe otherwise they would not flie from the English as they have done in the time of Warres with those of Virginia and out of that respect a small number of our men being armed will aduenture upon a great troope of theirs and for no other reason for they are resolute and subtile enough But from hence to conclude that there can be no safety to live with them is a very great errour Experience hath taught us that by kind and faire usage the Natives are not onely become peaceable but also friendly and have upon all occasions performed as many friendly Offices to the English in Maryland and New-England as any neighbour or friend uses to doe in the most Civill parts of Christendome Therefore any wise man will hold it a far more just and reasonable way to treat the People of the Countrey well thereby to induce them to civility and to teach them the use of husbandry and Mechanick trades whereof they are capable which may in time be very usefull to the English and the Planters to keepe themselues strong and united in Townes at least for a competent number and then noe man can reasonably doubt either surprise or any other ill dealing from them But to proceede hee that sees them may know how men lived whilest the world was under the Law of Nature and as by nature so amongst them all men are free but yet subject to command for the publike defence Their Government is Monarchicall he that governes in chiefe is called the Werowance and is assisted by some that consult with him of the common affaires who are called Wisoes They have no Lawes but the Law of Nature and discretion by which all things are ruled onely Custome hath introduced a law for the Succession of the Government which is this when a Werowance dieth his eldest sonne succeeds and after him the second and so the rest each for their liues and when all the sonnes are dead then the sons of the Werowances eldest daughter shall succeede and so if he have more daughters for they hold that the issue of the daughters hath more of his blood in them than the issue of his sonnes The Wisoes are chosen at the pleasure of the Werowance yet commonly they are chosen of the same family if they be of yeeres capable The yong men generally beare a very great respect to the elder They have also C●ck●r●●ses that are their Captains in time of war to whom they are very obedient But the Werowance himselfe plants Corne makes his owne Bow and Arrowes his Canoo his Mantle Shooes and what ever else belongs unto him as any other common Indian and commonly the Commanders are the best and most ingenious and active in all those things which are in esteeme amongst them The women serve their husbands make their bread dresse their meate such as they kill in hunting or get by fishing and if they have more wives then one as some of them have but that is not generall then the best beloved wife performes all the offices of the house and they take great coment therein The women also beside the houshold businesse use to make Matts which serve to cover their houses and for beds also they make baskets some of Rushes others of Silke-grasse which are very handsom The Children live with their Parents the Boyes untill they come to the full growth of men for they reckon not by yeeres as we doe then they are put into the number of Bow-men and are called Blacke-boyes and so continue untill they take them wives When they are to be made Black-boyes the ancient men that governe the yonger tell them That if they will be valiant and obedient to the Werowance Wisos and C●kc●r●●ses then their god will love them all men will esteeme of them and they shall kill Deere and Turkies catch Fish and all things shall goe well with them but if otherwise then shall all goe contrary which perswasion mooves in them an incredible obedience to their commands If they bid them take fire in their hands or mouthes they will doe it or any other desperate thing although with the apparant danger of their lives The women remaine with their Parents untill they have husbands and if the Parents bee dead then with some other of their friends If the husband die he leaves all that he hath to his wife except his bow and arrowes and some Beades which they usually bury with them and she is to keepe the children untill the sons come to be men and then they live where they please for all mens houses are free unto them and the daughters untill they have husbands The manner of their marriages is thus he that would have a wife treates with the father or if he be dead with the friend that takes care of her whom he desires to have to wife and agrees with him for a quantity of Beades or some such other thing which is accepted amongst them which he is to give for her and must be payed at the day of their marriage and then the day being appointed all the friends of both parts meet at the mans house that is to have the wife and each one brings a present of meate and the woman that is to be married also brings her present when the company is all come the man he sits at the upper end of the house and the womans friends leade her up and place her by him then all the company sit down upon mats on the ground as their manner is and the woman riseth and serves dinner First to her husband then to all the company the rest of the day they spend in singing and dancing which is not unpleasant at night the company leaves thē and cōmonly they live very peaceably and lovingly together Yet it falls out sometimes that a man puts away one wife and takes another then she and her children returne to her friends again They are generally very obedient to their husbands and you shal seldome heare a woman speake in the presence