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The prefcnt 

 ftate of the 

 NatiTcs. 



Church- 

 Government 

 among tht 

 tngi'fr. 



AMERICA. Chap. II. 



In the Year 1642. was erefted the eight and twentieth Town, call'd Woobum. 



In the Year 16 44. Grading the nine and twentieth Town was built, being in the 

 Government of the Mattacbufets $ it is well water'd and fituated about a great 

 Pond, having two Mills, a Saw-Mill, and a Corn-Mill, which ftand upon two 

 feveral Streams, 



A little after was built the thirtieth Town in this Colony, call'd Wenham, fituate 

 between Salem and Ipfwicb ; it is very well water'd, as moft Inland Towns arc, and 

 the People live altogether on Husbandry, 



About the Year 1645- one Mr. Tincbin, having out of defire to improve his 

 Eftate by Trading with the Indians, fetled himfelf in a place very remote from any 

 of the Towns of the Mattachufets Colony, yet under their Government, and great 

 ftore of People ftill reforting to him, they at laft erected a Town upon the River 

 Canetlico, calling it Spring-field, being the one and thirtieth Town ; it is very fitly 

 feated for a Beaver Trade with the Indians , in regard it is fituate upon this large 

 Navigable River, and upon fome Rivulets of the fame. 



In the Year 1648. was founded the Town of Haverhill, being the two and thir- 

 tieth,about a Mile or two from, the place where the River of Merrimeck receives in- 

 to it felf the River Shawshin, which is one of her three chief Heads. 



Not long after, the Town of Maiden, being the three and thirtieth Town, was 

 built by certain People that came out of Charles^To^n ,• thefe two Towns being fe- 

 ver'd the ome from the other by the large River of Miftick* 



The reft we fhall onely name, as 34. Berwick, alias Cbaftun. 3 5 Oxford, alias Sago- 

 qua*. Falmouth, alias Totam. 36. Brijtol. 37. Hull, alias Vajfataauack. 38. Dartmouth, 

 alias <Bohanna. 30. Norwich, alias Segocket* 40. Taunton, alias Qohannet. 41. Greens* 

 Harbour. 42. Yarmouth. 43. Northam, alias Tafcataqua. 44. Exeter. 45. Weymouth. 



The chief Rivers of New England zrc, ( Pafcataway, Sagadahoc, Termnaquid, Agamentko, 

 Merrimeck, Tachobacco , Mtftick, Narraganfet , Mijhuwin , Conns tlacut , NewichwaVocb, 

 l\jnebequy. 



The Indian Natives are now become fo weak in number, and in fome meafure 

 redue'd to a dread of the growth of the Englifo, that of late years they have not 

 pra&is'd any thing againft them, or at leaft, not juftifi'd them by numbers in 

 open Hoftility, willing rather to purchafe their Peace and buy off Injuries com- 

 mitted by them at the Price of their Lands and PofTeffions. 



And although care and expence hath been many years apply'd to the Converfi- 

 on of Indians to the Faith, however inclinable they feem'd at firft to the imbracing 

 thereof, not then fo well difcerning the infincerity of its ProfefTbrs. yet there are 

 fo few of late who do imbrace it or perfeverc in it (wanting a good Foundation for 

 inftru&ion in Moral Honefty,and perhaps the example of it in thofe that undertake 

 to inftru6t them in Religion . ) that Chriflianity to them feems a Chimera, Religion a 

 defign to draw them from the libidinous Plcafures of a lazy Life ; however, fome 

 there are who make Profeflion of Chrtftianity, and fome who are educated in the 

 Schools of New Cambridge, to entitle them to Preach the Gofpcl in their own Lan* 

 guage. 



One great hindrance to the Propagation of the Faith amongft thofe Heathens, is 

 the diverfity of their Languages . for it is commonly known, that the Natives 

 themfelves do not underftand one another, if their Habitations are but at forty 

 Miles diftancc. 



Their Church-Government and Difcipline is Congregational and Independent, 

 yet in fome places more rigid than others, for in many Towns there yet remains 

 fome leaven of fresbytery, from which Se&s our Independency had its Original • info- 

 much 



