The present spirit of inquiry into the early history of New England is bringing forth additional facts and evolving new light, by which we are every day seeing more clearly the true motive and incentives for its colonization. But whenever the student turns to investigate the history of the aboriginal tribes, who once inhabited this part of the country, he is struck, not so much with the paucity of materials, as with the complication and difficulties which our earlier and later writers have throw

published in boston in 1830, and called “kimzowi awighigan,” the last word being the term for book. The sounds of the vowels are represented in English according to the following scheme. Vowels. Sounded. A a as a in father, psalm. E e as e in met, or in accident. I i as ee in seen, or i in machine. O o as o in note. U u as u in tube, cube; also used after g , as in language. ŭ as ŭ in cup, sun. Nasal. O o Dipthongs. Ai ai as i in pine, nine. Au au as ow or ou in how, thou. Consonants. Names. B b

At Portsmouth, in her Maj ty’s Province of New Hampshire, in New England, the thirteenth day of July, in the twelfth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lady Anne, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the faith, &c. [1713] the submission and agreement of the eastern indians. Whereas for some years last past We have made a breach of our Fidelity and Loyalty to the Crowns of Great Britain, and have made open Rebellion against her Maj ty’s Subjects,

Georgetown, on Arrowsick Island, in his Majesty’s Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, the 12th Day of August 1717, in the fourth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George, by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. We, the Subscribers, being Sachems and Chief men of the several Tribes of Indians belonging to Kennebeck, Penobscut, Pegwackit, Saco, and other, the Eastern Parts of his Majesty’s Province afores d , having had