Bradford's History "of Plimoth Plantation.": From the Original Manuscript. With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to the Return of the Manuscript to Massachusetts |
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... ye Indians ; others were so weake and could , they could not endure , but got a shore , & with much adoe got fire , ( all things being so wett , ) and ye rest were glad to come to them ; for after midnight ye wind shifted to the [ 53 ] ...
... ye Indians ; others were so weake and could , they could not endure , but got a shore , & with much adoe got fire , ( all things being so wett , ) and ye rest were glad to come to them ; for after midnight ye wind shifted to the [ 53 ] ...
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... ye rogue would cousen him , he would see him choaked before he made him any more meate ; and yet ye pore fellow dyed before morning . All this while ye Indians came skulking about them , and would sometimes show them selves aloofe of ...
... ye rogue would cousen him , he would see him choaked before he made him any more meate ; and yet ye pore fellow dyed before morning . All this while ye Indians came skulking about them , and would sometimes show them selves aloofe of ...
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... ye barke that caried him , and many other passengers , was in that danger ... people and church here , in many pertic- ulers , that as he had sought their ruine , so God ... Indians , and being weakly mand , 1625. ] 231 PLYMOUTH PLANTATION .
... ye barke that caried him , and many other passengers , was in that danger ... people and church here , in many pertic- ulers , that as he had sought their ruine , so God ... Indians , and being weakly mand , 1625. ] 231 PLYMOUTH PLANTATION .
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... Indians , and being weakly mand , upon some quarell they knockt him on ye head with a hatched , so as he fell downe dead , & never spake word more . 2. litle boys that were his kinsmen were saved , but had some hurte , and ye vessell ...
... Indians , and being weakly mand , upon some quarell they knockt him on ye head with a hatched , so as he fell downe dead , & never spake word more . 2. litle boys that were his kinsmen were saved , but had some hurte , and ye vessell ...
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... ye night , they knew not how , they came right before a small blind harbore ... Indians come to them in canows , which made them stand upon their gard . But ... ye English houses 262 [ BOOK II . HISTORY OF.
... ye night , they knew not how , they came right before a small blind harbore ... Indians come to them in canows , which made them stand upon their gard . But ... ye English houses 262 [ BOOK II . HISTORY OF.
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Page 426 - ... the victory seemed a sweet sacrifice, and they gave the praise thereof to God, who had wrought so wonderfully for them, thus to enclose their enemies in their hands and give them so speedy a victory over so proud and insulting an enemy.
Page 96 - Our fathers were Englishmen which came over this great ocean, and were ready to perish in this wilderness; but they cried unto the Lord, and He heard their voice and looked on their adversity,
Page 501 - And that the next meeting after the date of these presents, which shall be accounted the second meeting, shall be at Boston in the...
Page 94 - Being thus arrived in a good harbor, and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of heaven who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean, and delivered them from all the perils and miseries thereof, again to set their feet on the firm and stable earth, their proper element.
Page 110 - Virginia, doe by these presents solemnly & mutualy in ye presence of God, and one of another, covenant & combine our selves togeather into a civill body politick, for our better ordering & preservation & furtherance of ye ends aforesaid ; and by vertue hearof to enacte, constitute, and frame such just & equall lawes, ordinances, acts, constitutions, & offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meete & convenient for ye generall good of ye Colonie, unto which we promise all due submission...
Page 503 - Commissioners shall have power to direct a war which cannot be delayed, and to send for due proportions of men out of each Jurisdiction, as well as six might do if all met.
Page 112 - Captein & military comander, unto whom my selfe, & many others, were much beholden in our low & sicke condition. And yet the Lord so upheld these persons, as in this generall calamity they were not at all infected either with sicknes, or lamnes. And what I have said of these, I may say of many others who dyed in this generall vissitation, & others yet living, that whilst they had health, yea, or any strength continuing, they were not wanting to any that had need of them.
Page 92 - And in one of them, as they thus lay at hull in a mighty storm, a lusty young man called John Howland, coming upon some occasion above the gratings was, with a seele...
Page 111 - And of these, in the time of most distress, there was but six or seven sound persons who to their great commendations, be it spoken, spared no pains night nor day, but with abundance of toil and hazard of their own health, fetched them wood, made them fires, dressed them meat, made their beds, washed their loathsome clothes, clothed and unclothed them.
Page 10 - ... joined to the Lord in that day, and shall be my people : and I will dwell in the midst of thee, and thou shalt know that the Lord of Hosts hath sent me unto thee.