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Page 23
... then their consumed estats would amounte too ; and yett they must as well
looke to be seconded with supplies , as presently to be trăsported . Also many
presidents of ill success , & lamentable misseries befalne others in the like :
designes ...
... then their consumed estats would amounte too ; and yett they must as well
looke to be seconded with supplies , as presently to be trăsported . Also many
presidents of ill success , & lamentable misseries befalne others in the like :
designes ...
Page 79
Let it also be considred what weake hopes of supply & succoure they left behinde
them , y might bear up their minds in this sade condition and trialls they were
under ; and they could not but be very smale . It is true , indeed , yo affections ...
Let it also be considred what weake hopes of supply & succoure they left behinde
them , y might bear up their minds in this sade condition and trialls they were
under ; and they could not but be very smale . It is true , indeed , yo affections ...
Page 109
And he doubted not , nor them selves neither , but . they should have a speedy
supply ; considering allso how by M ' . Cushmans perswation , and letters
received from Leyden , wherin they willed them so to doe , they yeelded + to yo ...
And he doubted not , nor them selves neither , but . they should have a speedy
supply ; considering allso how by M ' . Cushmans perswation , and letters
received from Leyden , wherin they willed them so to doe , they yeelded + to yo ...
Page 111
And they could not well give less this winter time till fish came in againe . So they
were presently put to half alowance , one as well as an other , which begane to
be hard , but they bore it patiently under hope of supply . Sone after this ships ...
And they could not well give less this winter time till fish came in againe . So they
were presently put to half alowance , one as well as an other , which begane to
be hard , but they bore it patiently under hope of supply . Sone after this ships ...
Page 115
And yo Gop ? seemd to countenance ye one , and ye Captaine ye other , by
which they had better intelligence , and made them both more diligente . t [ 72 ]
Now in a maner their provissions were wholy spent , and they looked hard for
supply ...
And yo Gop ? seemd to countenance ye one , and ye Captaine ye other , by
which they had better intelligence , and made them both more diligente . t [ 72 ]
Now in a maner their provissions were wholy spent , and they looked hard for
supply ...
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Page 21 - ... shells of fishes, cutting off the members and joints of others by piecemeal and broiling on the coals, eat the collops of their flesh in their sight whilst they live, with other cruelties horrible to be related.
Page 91 - He directed them how to set their corne, wher to take fish, and to procure other comodities, and was also their pilott to bring them to unknowne places for their profitt, and never left them till he dyed.
Page 231 - But this continued not long, for after Morton was sent for England, (as follows to be declared,) shortly after came over that worthy gentlman, Mr. John Indecott, who brought over a patent under...
Page 57 - Amsterdame to see them shipte and to take their leave of them. That night was spent with litle sleepe by ye most, but with freindly entertainmente & christian discourse and other reall expressions of true christian love.
Page 3 - ... 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.
Page 11 - We sinke, we sinke; they cried (if not with mirakelous, yet with a great hight or degree of devine faith), Yet Lord thou canst save, yet Lord thou canst save; with shuch other expressions as I will forbeare.
Page 123 - Upon the hill they have a large square house, with a flat roof, made of thick sawn planks, stayed with oak beams, upon the top of which they have six cannons, which shoot iron balls of four and five pounds, and command the surrounding country. The lower part they use for their church, where they preach on Sundays and the usual holidays.
Page 23 - It was answered, that all great and honourable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and must be both enterprised and overcome with answerable courages. It was granted the dangers were great, but not desperate; the difficulties were many, but not invincible.
Page 347 - ... respecte, when they could not have such as they would, were glad to take such as they could ; and so, many untoward servants, sundry of them proved, that were thus brought over, both men and women kind; who, when their times were expired, became families of them selves, which gave increase hereunto.
Page 287 - ... plantation, and heard those that are complanants against them, most of the things informed being deneyed, and resting to be proved by parties that must be called from y...
Bibliographic information
| Title | History of Plymouth Plantation |
| Author | William Bradford |
| Editor | Charles Deane |
| Publisher | Little, Brown, 1856 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 19 Dec 2007 |
| Length | 476 pages |
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