Chap. II. <iA M E%^1 C A. 



particular Patents to themfelves of fuch part of the Countrey along the Sea-Coaft 

 as might befufficientfor them : To this Motion there being a general AlTent ,iven 

 by the Lords, and a Day appointed for the eonclnfion thereof, an Aft was Lde 

 for the Refignation of the Patent, alloting to each Man their feveral Bounds. Prom 

 theuttermoft parts began the Limits of the Lord JMougrave, and ended at Hudfon's 



* t -a !,! /i Whkh RiVCr ' f ° r thc f P ace of fixt 7 Miles in length 

 was plac d the Duke of Richmond's Affignment : Next to him was fetled the Ll' 

 oiCarUle: Next him the Lord Edward Gorges : Next the Marquefs oC Hamilton : 

 Then Captain John Ma/on: And laftly his own, which extended to the great River 

 Sagadehoc being fixty Miles, and foup into the Main. Land a hundred and twenty 

 Miles which he was pleas'd to call by the Name of The <ProVmce of Main 



The landing of the En £ l,Jh in Plymouth Plantation was very much facilitated bv 

 the great Mortality that hapned amongft the Indians about that time, amongft the 

 1 i* ™ arr T lf ! tS > NiMticks > To™*™, Wppanaps, and thofe of Abargmt, jJaVanr 

 zndJPockanehe their Vov, mm> or Doctors, feeing with amazement their morns' 

 or Streets ie ful of dead Bodies, and in vain expeaing help from Sauantam their 

 good otAbbamcb their bad God. Not long before, that blazing Comet, fo much 

 talk d of m Europe apppear'd after Sun-fetting in their Horizon South- Weft for the 

 fpace of thirty Sleeps, (for fo they reckon their Days). They Landed at firft 

 with little or no refiftance, a handful of Men onely being fent before to keep 

 pofleffion for their Companions, who arriv'd eight days after . when the Natives 

 appearing with their Bowes and Arrows, let flie their long Shafts amoneft them - 

 whereupon one Captain Miles Standtjh with his Fowling-piece fliot the ftouteft 

 Sachem .amongft the Indians, as he was reaching an Arrow from his Quiver - which 

 the reft feeing, fled into the Woods and Thickets. ' 



The fame Year the Merchant- Advenurers in England fent forth ftore of Servants to 

 provide againftthe Wants of that place; amongft whom came over a mix'd Mul. 

 titude, who fetled themfelves in the Bofom of the Cape now call'd Gloucefier 



About the Year 16 3 i. there fled to the Engltfl, at Watentown thc Indians that dwelt 

 thereabouts, for protection againft the Tarratmes, a fort of cruel and falvage Canni- 

 bals, by whom near the Town of Saugujl, in the very dead'time of the Night, one 

 Lieutenant Walker being on a fudden alarm'd, was fliot through his Coat and Buflf 

 Jacket with two Indian Arrows. That Night the Engltfi ftood upon their Guard 

 and the next Morning fent word to other parts . who gather'd together and 

 taking counfel:how to quit themfelves of thefe Indians, agreed to difcharge their 

 great Guns; whofe redoubled noife.ratling in the Rocks,ftruck terror into the Indi- 

 ans and caus'd them to betake themfelves to flight. The Autumn following, others 

 of the Indians, who till then had held a good correfpondence with the Planters be- 

 gan to quarrel about the Bounds of their Land , but a great Mortality, by the ra- 

 ging of the Small-Pox, breaking out amongft them, put an end to that Contro- 

 verfic : There died amongft the reft one of the chief of the Sagamores of the Matta- 

 chufets, call'd Sagamore John, who before his Death had been inftrufted in the Cbri- 

 fiian Faith, and took care that his two Sons fliould be nurtur'd therein. 



In the Year 1035. there arrived feveral Ships with great plenty of'provifioiu, 

 and many Perfons of good Quality, and amongft the reft Sir Henry Vane. 



The fame Year the People of Cambridge, otherwife call'd He^town, hearing of a 

 fertile place upon the River Caneclico,tcmoy'd thither,and erected a new Corporati- 

 on by the Name of Suffice, being encourag'd thereunto by the Lord Say and the 

 Lord Smk, and planting a Forreft at the mouth of the River.call'd it Say brook Forrejl. 

 About thc Year 1638. the Peauods, a^ftout and Warlike Nation, lying to the 



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