THE Publications of the Prince Society. Established May 25th, 1858. THE NEW ENGLISH CANAAN. Boston: PRINTED FOR THE SOCIETY, By John Wilson and Son . 1883. TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY COPIES. THE NEW ENGLISH CANAAN OF THOMAS MORTON. WITH INTRODUCTORY MATTER AND NOTES BY CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS, Jr. Boston: PUBLISHED BY THE PRINCE SOCIETY. 1883. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1883, by The Prince Society , In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. Editor: CHARLES FRANCI

Before undertaking the present work I had no experience as an editor. It is unnecessary for me to say, therefore, that, were I now to undertake it, I should pursue a somewhat different course from that which I have pursued. The New English Canaan is, in many respects, a singular book. One of its most singular features is the extent of ground it covers. Not only is it full of obscure references to incidents in early New England history, but it deals directly with the aborigines, the trees, animal

In the second book of his history of Plymouth Plantation, Governor Bradford, while dealing with the events of the year 1628 though writing at a still later period, says:— “Aboute some three or four years before this time, ther came over one Captaine Wolastone (a man of pretie parts), and with him three or four more of some eminencie, who brought with them a great many servants, with provisions and other implaments for to begine a plantation; and pitched themselves in a place within the Massachus

GENTLE READER , I present to the publike view an abstract of New England, which I have undertaken to compose by the incouragment of such genious spirits as have been studious of the inlargment of his Majesties Territories; being not formerly satisfied by the relations of such as, through haste, have taken but a superficiall survey thereof: which thing time hath enabled mee to performe more punctually to the life, and to give a more exact accompt of what hath been required. I have therefore beene

NEW ENGLISH CANAAN, OR NEW CANAAN. Containing the originall of the Natives, their manners & Customes, with their tractable nature and love towards the English. Prooving New England the principall part of all America, and most commodious and fitt for habitation....

Prooving New England the principall part of all America, and most commodious and fitt for habitation. {14} This Torrida Zona is good for Grashoppers: and Zona Temperata for the Ant and Bee. But Frigida Zona [is] good for neither, as by lamentable experience of Capt. Davis froze to death. Captaine Davis fate is manifest, who in his inquest of the Northwest passage for the East India trade was frozen to death. [205] And therefore, for Frigida Zona , I agree with Aristotle that it is unfit for habi

The generall Survey of the Country. In the Moneth of Iune, Anno Salutis 1622, it was my chaunce to arrive in the parts of New England with 30. Servants, and provision of all sorts fit for a plantation: and whiles our howses were building, I did indeavour to take a survey of the {60} Country: The more I looked, the more I liked it. A famous Country. And when I had more seriously considered of the bewty of the place, with all her faire indowments, I did not thinke that in all the knowne world it c

Containing a description of the People that are planted there, what remarkable Accidents have happened there since they were setled, what Tenents they hould, together with the practise of their Church. Of a great League made with the Plimmouth Planters after their arrivall, by the Sachem of those Territories. [449] Th e Sachem of the Territories where the Planters of New England are setled, that are the first of the now Inhabitants of New Canaan, not knowing what they were, or whether they would

Chapters. 1 . Prooving New England the principall part of all America, and most commodious and fit for a habitation and generation. 2 . Of the originall of the Natives. 3 . Of a great mortallity happened amongst the Natives. 4 . Of their howses and habitations. 5 . Of their Religion. 6 . Of the Indians apparrell. 7 . Of their Childbearing. 8 . Of their reverence and respect to age. 9 . Of their Juggelling tricks. 10 . Of their Duelles. 11 . Of the maintenance of their reputation. 12 . Of their T

Chap. 1 . The generall Survey of the Country. 2 . What trees are there and how commodious. 3 . What Potherbes are there and for Sallets. 4 . Of the Birds of the aire and fethered Fowles. 5 . Of the Beasts of the Forrest. 6 . Of Stones and Mineralls. 7 . Of the Fishes and what commodity they proove. 8 . Of the goodnes of the Country and the Fountaines. 9 . A Perspective to view the Country by. 10 . Of the great Lake of Erocoise....

Chap. 1 . Of a great legue made betweene the Salvages and English. 2 . Of the entertainment of Master Westons people. 3 . Of a great Battaile fought betweene the English and the Indians. 4 . Of a Parliament held at Wessaguscus. 5 . Of a Massacre made upon the Salvages. 6 . Of the Surprizing of a Marchants Shipp. 7 . Of Thomas Mortons Entertainement and wrack. 8 . Of the banishment of Iohn Layford and Iohn Oldam. 9 . Of a barren doe of Virginea growne Fruithfull. 10 . Of the Master of the Ceremon

New England’s Prospect. A true, lively and experimentall description of that part of America , commonly called Nevv England: discovering the State of that Countrie, both as it stands to our new-come English Planters; and to the old Natiue Inhabitants. By William Wood . London, 1634. Preface by Charles Deane, LL.D. The Hutchinson Papers. A Collection of Original Papers relative to the History of the Colony of Massachusetts-Bay. Reprinted from the edition of 1769. Edited by William H. Whitmore, A.

1. Captain John Mason , the founder of New Hampshire, including his Tract on Newfoundland, 1620, the several American Charters in which he was a Grantee, and other papers; and a Memoir by the late Charles W. Tuttle, Ph.D. Edited, with historical illustrations, by John Ward Dean, A.M. 2. Sir Ferdinando Gorges , including his Tract entitled A Brief Narration, 1658, American Charters granted to him, and other papers; with historical Illustrations and a Memoir by the Rev. Edmund F. Slafter, A.M. 3.

[1] Bradford, pp. 235-6. [2] A Captain Wolliston is mentioned by Smith ( Description of New England , III. Mass. Hist. Coll., vol. vi. p. 136) as the lieutenant of “one Captain Barra, an English pirate, in a small ship, with some twelve pieces of ordnance, about thirty men and near all starved,” whom Smith encountered in 1615, while a captive in the hands of the French freebooters. Though it has found a place in biographical dictionaries on account of two eminent men of one family from Staffords