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Letters, Petition To The King, February 12, 1699, April 10, 1966, And May 7, 1700, Don Patricio Hinachuba, Don Andres, Charles Ii King Of Spain (1661-1700), Rachel Louise Sanderson

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"The letter from Don Patricio Hinachuba to the King is presented below along with selections from two other letters. The first is displayed in its entirety because so much of its value comes from its structure. Hinachuba purposefully constructed the letter according to courtly standards. Beginning with his distinguished introduction and extreme flattery, the letter gives the impression that among the many tragedies the most important was that his people were prevented from attending mass. The final two letters have been displayed in sections for the ease of the reader and to eliminate redundancies. In his response, the King emphasized …

Phineas Pemberton, Abigail Pemberton, December 18, 1697, Phineas Pemberton

Pemberton Correspondence Transcriptions

Letter dated December 18, 1697 (December 8, 1697 Old Style) from Phineas Pemberton to his daughter, Abigail Pemberton.

Israel Pemberton, Joseph Pemberton, November 8, 1697, Israel Pemberton

Pemberton Correspondence

Letter dated November 8, 1697 (October 29, 1697 Old Style) from Israel Pemberton to his brother, Joseph.

Israel Pemberton, Joseph Pemberton, November 8, 1697, Israel Pemberton

Pemberton Correspondence Transcriptions

Letter dated November 8, 1697 (October 29, 1697 Old Style) from Israel Pemberton to his brother, Joseph.

Phineas Pemberton, Abigail Pemberton, November 1, 1697, Phineas Pemberton

Pemberton Correspondence

Letter dated November 1, 1697 (October 22, 1697 Old Style) from Phineas Pemberton to his daughter, Abigail Pemberton.

Phineas Pemberton, Abigail Pemberton, November 1, 1697, Phineas Pemberton

Pemberton Correspondence Transcriptions

Letter dated November 1, 1697 (October 22, 1697 Old Style) from Phineas Pemberton to his daughter, Abigail Pemberton. Phineas Pemberton instructs Abigail on matters related to business and family.

David Lloyd, Phineas Pemberton, July 2, 1697, David Lloyd

Pemberton Correspondence Transcriptions

Letter dated July 2, 1697 (June 22, 1697 Old Style) from David Lloyd to Phineas Pemberton.

Phaenomena Quaedam Apocalyptica Ad Aspectum Novi Orbis Configurata. Or, Some Few Lines Towards A Description Of The New Heaven (1697), Samuel Sewall, Reiner Smolinski , Editor

Electronic Texts in American Studies

SAMUEL SEWALL (1652-1730) is best remembered as a colonial judge during the Salem Witchcraft trials, as a significant diarist, and as an ardent millenarian, who published a number of eschatological tracts on his favorite obsession. Apart from his political achievements in the colonial judicature, Sewall published a number of significant works. The Selling of Joseph (1700) is one of the earliest abolitionist documents in American history. His famous Diary of Samuel Sewall, 1674-1729 (1878-82) is a Puritan document par excellence and a window on a crucial period in the development of the colony. His millenarian tract Proposals Touching the Accomplishment …

Phaenomena Quaedam Apocalyptica Ad Aspectum Novi Orbis Configurata. Or, Some Few Lines Towards A Description Of The New Heaven, Samuel Sewall, Reiner Smolinski

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SAMUEL SEWALL (1652-1730) is best remembered as a colonial judge during the Salem Witchcraft trials, as a significant diarist, and as an ardent millenarian, who published a number of eschatological tracts on his favorite obsession. Apart from his political achievements in the colonial judicature, Sewall published a number of significant works. The Selling of Joseph (1700) is one of the earliest abolitionist documents in American history. His famous Diary of Samuel Sewall, 1674-1729 (1878-82) is a Puritan document par excellence and a window on a crucial period in the development of the colony. His millenarian tract Proposals Touching the Accomplishment …

Mary Bowne, Phineas Pemberton And Phebe Pemberton, September 22, 1696, Mary Bowne

Pemberton Correspondence

Letter dated September 22, 1696 (September 12, 1696 Old Style) from Mary Bowne to Phineas Pemberton.

Mary Bowne, Phineas Pemberton And Phebe Pemberton, September 22, 1696, Mary Bowne

Pemberton Correspondence Transcriptions

Letter dated September 22, 1696 (September 12, 1696 Old Style) from Mary Bowne to Phineas Pemberton. Bowne details an arduous journey to New York where she and others had to transport their horses on ferries to get to their destination. Bowne also inquires about Phebe Pemberton's health after recovering from an illness. The front of the letter has small scratch work enumerating possibly goods to be delivered to other Quakers.

Anthony Banks, Phineas Pemberton, June 13, 1696, Anthony Banks

Pemberton Correspondence

Letter dated June 13, 1696 (June 3, 1696 Old Style) from Anthony Banks to his cousin, Phineas Pemberton. It is followed by a note written by Phineas at the bottom.

Anthony Banks, Phineas Pemberton, June 13, 1696, Anthony Banks

Pemberton Correspondence Transcriptions

Letter dated June 13, 1696 (June 3, 1696 Old Style) from Anthony Banks to his cousin, Phineas Pemberton. It is followed by a note written by Phineas at the bottom.

Massachusetts: Or The First Planters Of New-England, The End And Manner Of Their Coming Thither, And Abode There: In Several Epistles (1696), John Winthrop, Thomas Dudley, John Allin, Thomas Shepard, John Cotton, Joshua Scottow, Paul Royster, Editor Of The Online Electronic Edition

Joshua Scottow Papers

In 1696 there appeared in Boston an anonymous 16mo volume of 56 pages containing four “epistles,” written from 66 to 50 years earlier, illustrating the early history of the colony of Massachusetts Bay.

The four “epistles” compiled in Massachusetts, or The First Planters were all originally addressed to English or European audiences:

1. The Humble Request of His Majesties Loyal Subjects (1630), sent from aboard the Arbella and usually attributed to John Winthrop, defended the emigrants’ physical separation from England and reaffirmed their loyalty to the Crown and Church of England.

2. Thomas Dudley’s letter “To the Right Honourable, My …

New Yorke Considered And Improved A.D. 1695, John Miller, Victor Hugo Paltsits, Paul Royster (Depositor)

Electronic Texts in American Studies

The following work is essentially a line-for-line facsimile of Victor Hugo Paltsits’ edition of John Miller’s New Yorke Considered and Improved A.D. 1695. Miller’s work was written during his tenure as chaplain to the British soldiers stationed in New York from June 1692 until July 1695. His first draft was thrown overboard to avoid its falling into the hands of the French privateers who captured the ship in which he was returning to England. Miller re-wrote his work while imprisoned in France, finished it after his return to England in 1696, and presented it as a report to his …

The Talking Deaf Man, Or, A Method Proposed, Whereby He Who Is Born Deaf May Learn To Speak, Johann Conrad Amman

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No abstract provided.

Mary Bowne, Phineas Pemberton And Phebe Pemberton, December 17, 1693, Mary Bowne

Pemberton Correspondence

Letter dated December 17, 1693 (December 7, 1693 Old Style) from Mary Bowne to Phineas and Phebe Pemberton.

Mary Bowne, Phineas Pemberton And Phebe Pemberton, December 17, 1693, Mary Bowne

Pemberton Correspondence Transcriptions

Letter dated December 17, 1693 (December 7, 1693 Old Style) from Mary Bowne to Phineas and Phebe Pemberton.

Mary Bowne, Phebe Pemberton, [1693], Mary Bowne

Pemberton Correspondence Transcriptions

Letter likely dated 1693 from Mary Bowne to Phebe Pemberton.

Old Mens Tears For Their Own Declensions, Mixed With Fears Of Their And Posterities Further Falling Off From New-England’S Primitive Constitution., Joshua Scottow, Paul Royster , Editor

Joshua Scottow Papers

This is an online edition of Scottow’s popular tract, published in Boston in 1691, based on the first edition. Later editions were published in Boston in 1715, 1733, and 1749, and in New London in 1769. It is a searchable PDF document. The characteristics of Scottow’s original text (spelling, punctuation, capitalization, italics, etc.) have been retained. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected, and a list of emendations is included at the end. Its typographic design is based on that of the original.

The work decries the falling off of New England from the purity and purpose of its original founding, …

Old Mens Tears For Their Own Declensions, Mixed With Fears Of Their And Posterities Further Falling Off From New-England’S Primitive Constitution, Joshua Scottow

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This is an online edition of Scottow’s popular tract, published in Boston in 1691, based on the first edition. Later editions were published in Boston in 1715, 1733, and 1749, and in New London in 1769. It is a searchable PDF document. The characteristics of Scottow’s original text (spelling, punctuation, capitalization, italics, etc.) have been retained. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected, and a list of emendations is included at the end. Its typographic design is based on that of the original. The work decries the falling off of New England from the purity and purpose of its original founding, …

The Widdow Ranter, Or, The History Of Bacon In Virginia (1690), Aphra Behn, Paul Royster , Editor

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The Widdow Ranter, or, The History of Bacon in Virginia was probably written in 1688, first performed in late 1689, and published in 1690. It is a highly fictionalized drama of Bacon’s Rebellion of 1676 in Virginia, when Nathaniel Bacon (c.1640-1676), commander of a volunteer force of Indian fighters, succeeded for several months in overthrowing the government of Sir William Berkeley, who had declared Bacon a rebel and refused to countenance or commission his actions against the Indians. Mrs. Behn’s play casts Bacon as a classical hero, motivated by “Honour,” and in love with an Indian princess. A variety of …

Excerpt, Brevísima Relación De La Destrucción De La Indias, Bartolomé De Las Casas, Alisa Roberts

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In his "Brevísima relación de la destrucción de la Indias, Las Casas describe absymal treatment of the natives."

Peter Hendricks, Roger Longworth Via Thomas Atherton, August 28, 1686, Peter Hendricks

Pemberton Correspondence Transcriptions

Letter dated August 28, 1686 (August 18, 1686 Old Style) from Peter Hendricks to Roger Longworth, delivered to Thomas Atherton.

The Compleat Troller : Or, The Art Of Trolling, With A Description Of All The Utensils, Instruments, Tackling, And Materials Requisite Thereto : With Rules And Directions How To Use Them : As Also A Brief Account Of Most Of The Principal Rivers In England., Nobbes, Robert, 1652-1706?

Angling

Dedication signed: Ro. Nobbes. Advertisement on p. [2] at end.

Phineas Pemberton, Phebe Pemberton, August 18, 1680, Phineas Pemberton

Pemberton Correspondence

Letter dated August 18, 1680 (August 8, 1680 Old Style) from Phineas Pemberton to his wife, Phebe Pemberton. In the letter, Phineas reports on the health of Roger Haydock, recovering from an illness in Carrickfergus. Several Friends went to Carrickfergus to make sure he was alright, and they report his condition as improving.

Didascalocophus : Or The Deaf And Dumb Mans Tutor, To Which Is Added A Discourse Of The Nature And Number Of Double Consonants: Both Which Tracts Being The First (For What The Author Knows) That Have Been Published Upon Either Of The Subjects, George Dalgarno

Deaf Rare Books

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Phineas Pemberton, Ralph Pemberton, September 25, 1676, Phineas Pemberton

Pemberton Correspondence

Letter dated September 25, 1676 (September 15, 1676 Old Style) from Phineas Pemberton to his father, Ralph Pemberton. Phineas expresses his regrets at his father's poor health, telling him to not go to Aspull on business if it will make his health worse. The rest of the letter concerns their business and goods purchased.

An Earnest Exhortation To The Inhabitants Of New-England (1676), Increase Mather, Reiner Smolinski , Editor

Electronic Texts in American Studies

The work reprinted here, An Earnest Exhortation to the Inhabitants of New-England to Hearken to the Voice of God in His Late and Present Dispensations As Ever They Desire to Escape Another Judgement, Seven Times Greater Then Any Thing Which as Yet Hath Been (1676), is transcribed from the copy held by the American Antiquarian Society. It is Mather's theological explication of King Philip’s War (1675-76) as God’s punishment of his people for their backsliding. Characteristic of the homiletic tradition of the jeremiad is Increase Mather’s paradigmatic response to the war with the Indian Sachem Metacom and his action plan …

A Brief History Of The Warr With The Indians In New-England, Increase Mather

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This ebook represents a new edition of Increase Mather’s influential contemporary account of King Philip’s War, between the English colonists in New England (and their Native allies) and the Wampanoag, Naragansett, and other Indian nations of the region, beginning in 1675. Mather’s account runs through August of 1676, when hostilities in southern, central, and western New England ended; fighting continued in the region of Maine until 1678. The war was disastrous for both sides, but particularly for the hostile Native Americans, who were brought very close to extermination.

Mather describes his history as “brief” (its 30,00 words run to 89 …