Historical collections of the Indians in New England. Of their several nations, numbers, customs, manners, religion and government, before the English planted there. : Also a true and faithful account of the present state and condition of the praying Indians ... : Together with a brief mention of the instruments and means, that God hath been pleased to use for their civilizing and conversion ... : Also suggesting some expedients for their further civilizing and propagating the Christian faith among them. / By Daniel Gookin, gentleman. One of the magistrates of Massachusetts colony in New England, who hath been for sundry years past, and is at present, betrusted and employed for the civil government and conduct of the Indians in Massachusetts Colony, by order of the General Court there. ; [Eight lines of Scripture texts] ; Now first printed from the original manuscript.

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Historical collections of the Indians in New England. Of their several nations, numbers, customs, manners, religion and government, before the English planted there. : Also a true and faithful account of the present state and condition of the praying Indians ... : Together with a brief mention of the instruments and means, that God hath been pleased to use for their civilizing and conversion ... : Also suggesting some expedients for their further civilizing and propagating the Christian faith among them. / By Daniel Gookin, gentleman. One of the magistrates of Massachusetts colony in New England, who hath been for sundry years past, and is at present, betrusted and employed for the civil government and conduct of the Indians in Massachusetts Colony, by order of the General Court there. ; [Eight lines of Scripture texts] ; Now first printed from the original manuscript.

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Gookin, Daniel, 1612-1687.

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[Boston] :: At the Apollo Press, in Boston, by Belknap and Hall.,

MDCCXCII. [1792]

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Gookin, Daniel, 1612-1687.

Indians of North America -- New England.

Indians of North America -- History.

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"Historical collections of the Indians in New England. Of their several nations, numbers, customs, manners, religion and government, before the English planted there. : Also a true and faithful account of the present state and condition of the praying Indians ... : Together with a brief mention of the instruments and means, that God hath been pleased to use for their civilizing and conversion ... : Also suggesting some expedients for their further civilizing and propagating the Christian faith among them. / By Daniel Gookin, gentleman. One of the magistrates of Massachusetts colony in New England, who hath been for sundry years past, and is at present, betrusted and employed for the civil government and conduct of the Indians in Massachusetts Colony, by order of the General Court there. ; [Eight lines of Scripture texts] ; Now first printed from the original manuscript." In the digital collection Evans Early American Imprint Collection. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/N18748.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed July 26, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• THE EPISTLE DEDICATORY.
• AN EPISTLE GRATULATORY AND SUPPLICATORY.
• AN EPISTLE TO THE READER.
• HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF THE INDIANS IN NEW ENGLAND.
  • CHAP. I. Several Conjectures of their Original.
  • CHAP. II. Of the principal Indians that inhabit New England.
  • CHAP. III. Of the Language, Customs, Manners, and Religion of the Indians.
  • CHAP. IV. Of the Inland Indians, and particularly of the Mawhawks, or Maquas.
  • CHAP. V. Of the Instruments and Means that God hath used, for the Civilizing and Conversion of some of the New England Indians.
  • CHAP. VI. Of the other Means and Instruments, used and improved for Civilizing and reducing the Indians from Barbarism.
  • CHAP. VII. Of the Number, Names, and Situation of the Indian praying towns, within the Colony of Massachusetts, with the Churches gathered in some of them, the Quantities of Land belonging to them, a Conjecture at the Number of Families and People that inhabit in them, with other mat|ters thereunto appertaining.
  • CHAP. VIII. Of the Progress of the Gospel among the Indians in the Colony of New-Plymouth, and the Instruments God hath raised up to promote the same.
  • CHAP. IX. Of the Progress of the Gospel among the Indians at Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, and of the Instruments that God hath raised up and employed, to preach the Gospel to the Indians of those Islands.
  • CHAP. X. Giving an Account of what is done with respect to the Propagating of the Gospel in the Iurisdictions of Connecticut and Rhode Island.
  • CHAP. XI. Of the Honourable Corporation at London, for the Propagating the Gospel among the Indians in New England; and of the Honoured Commissioners of the United Colonies in New England, intrusted with that affair.
  • CHAP. XII. Containing Proposals, as an Expedient for Civilizing the Indians, and Propagating the Gospel among them.
• A POSTCRIPT.
  • THE HISTORY OF NEW ENGLAND, ESPECIALLY OF THE COLONY OF MASSACHUSETTS, IN EIGHT BOOKS, FAITHFULLY COLLECTED BY DANIEL GOOKIN, ONE OF THE MAGISTRATES THEREOF.
• CORRECTIONS.
• The CONTENTS
• A short Account of DANIEL GOOKIN, author of the Historical Col|lections of the Indians in New England.