New English Canaan or New Canaan Containing an abstract of New England, composed in three bookes. The first booke setting forth the originall of the natives, their manners and customes, together with their tractable nature and love towards the English. The second booke setting forth the naturall indowments of the country, and what staple commodities it yealdeth. The third booke setting forth, what people are planted there, their prosperity, what remarkable accidents have happened since the first planting of it, together with their tenents and practise of their church. Written by Thomas Morton of Cliffords Inn gent, upon tenne yeares knowledge and experiment of the country.

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Author:	Morton, Thomas, 1575-1646.
Title:	New English Canaan or New Canaan Containing an abstract of New England, composed in three bookes. The first booke setting forth the originall of the natives, their manners and customes, together with their tractable nature and love towards the English. The second booke setting forth the naturall indowments of the country, and what staple commodities it yealdeth. The third booke setting forth, what people are planted there, their prosperity, what remarkable accidents have happened since the first planting of it, together with their tenents and practise of their church. Written by Thomas Morton of Cliffords Inn gent, upon tenne yeares knowledge and experiment of the country.
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To the right honorable, the Lords and others of his Majesties most honorable privy Councell, Commissioners, for the Government of all his Majesties forraigne Provinces.

The Epistle to the Reader.

encomia

In laudem Authoris.

Sir Christoffer Gardiner, Knight.

In laudem Authoris.

NEW ENGLISH CANAAN, OR NEW CANAAN.

The first Booke. Containing the originall of the Na∣tives, their manners, & Customes, with their tractable nature and love towards the English.

CHAP I. Prooving Nevv England the principall part of all America, and most commodious and fitt for habitation.

CHAP. II. Of the originall of the Natives.

CHAP. III. Of a great mortality that happened amongst the Natives of Nevv England neere about the time, that the English came there to plant.

CHAP. IV. Of their Houses and Habitations.

CHAP. V. Of their Religion.

CHAP. VI. Of the Indians apparell.

CHAP. VII. Of their Child-bearing, and delivery, and vvhat manner of persons they are.

CHAP. VIII. Of their Reverence, and respect to age.

CHAP. IX. Of their pretty comuring tricks.

CHAP. X. Of their duels and the honourable estimation of vi∣ctory obtained thereby.

CHAP. XI. Of the maintaining of their Reputation.

CHAP. XII. Of their trafficke and trade one vvith another.

CHAP. XIII. Of their Magazines or Storehovvses.

CHAP. XIV. Of theire Subtilety.

CHAP. XV. Of their admirable perfection, in the use of the sences.

CHAP. XVI. Of their acknovvledgement of the Creation, and im∣mortality of the Soule.

CHAP. XVII. Of their Annals and funerals.

CHAP. XVIII. Of their Custome in burning the Country, and the reason thereof.

CHAP. XIX. Of their inclination to Drunkennesse.

CHAP. XX. That the Salvages live a contended life.

NEW ENGLISH CANAAN, OR NEW CANAAN.

CHAP. I. The generall Survey of the Country:

CHAP. II. vvhat trees are there and hovv commodious.

CHAP. III. Potthearbes and other herbes for Sallets.

CHAP. IV. Of Birds, and fethered fovvles.

CHAP. V. Of the Beasts, of the forrest.

CHAP. VI. Of Stones and Minerals.

CHAP. VII. Of the Fishes, and vvhat Commodity they proove.

CHAP. VIII. Of the goodnes of the Country and the Waters.

Chap. IX. A Perspective to vievv the Country by.

CHAP. X. Of the Great Lake of Erocoise in Nevv England, and the commodities thereof.

NEW CANAANS GENIVS. EPILOGVS.

NEW ENGLISH CANAAN, OR NEW CANAAN.

CHAP. I. Of a great League made vvith the Plimmouth Planters after their arrivall, by the Sachem of those Territories.

CHAP. II. Of the entertainement of Mr. Westons people sent to settle a plantation there.

CHAP. III. Of a Battle fought at the Massachussets, bevveene the English and the Indians.

CHAP. IV. Of a Parliament held at Wessaguscus, and the Actes.

CHAP. V. Of a Massacre made upon the Salvages at Wessa∣guscus.

CHAP. VI. Of the surprizinge of a Merchants Shipp in Plim∣mouth harbour.

CHAP. VII. Of Thomas Mortons entertainement at Plimmouth and castinge avvay upon an Island.

CHAP. VIII. Of the Banishment of Master Iohn Layford, and Iohn Oldam from Plimmouth.

CHAP. IX. Of a barren doe of Ʋirginea grovvne fruithfull in Nevv Canaan.

CHAP. X. Of a man indued vvith many spetiall guifts sent o∣ver to be Master of the Ceremonies.

CHAP. XI. Of a Composition made by the Sachem, for a Theft committed by some of his men shevvinge their honest meaninge.

CHAP. XII. Of a voyadge made by the Master of the Ceremonies of Nevv Canaan to Neepenett, from vvhence hee came avvay, and of the manifold dangers hee escaped.

CHAP. XIII. Of a lamentable fit of Mellancolly, that the Bar∣rendoe fell into, (after the death of her infant, seeing herfelfe despised of her Svveete hart,) vvhereof shee vvas cured.

CHAP. XIV. Of the Revells of New Canaan.

CHAP. XV. Of a great Monster supposed to be at Ma-re-Mount; and the preparation made to destroy it.

CHAP. XVI. How the 9. worthies put mine Host of Ma-re-Mount into the inchaunted, Castle at Plimmouthy, and terrified him with the Monster Briareus.

CHAP. XVII. Of the Baccanall Triumphe of the nine vvorthies of Nevv Canaan.

THE ILLVSTRATIONS.

CHAP. XVIII. Of a Doctor made at a Commencement in New Canaan.

CHAP. XIX. Of the silencing of a Minister in nevv Canaan.

CHAP. XX. Of the Practise of the Seperatists to gett a snare to hamper mine Host of Ma-re-Mount.

CHAP. XXI. Of Captaine Littlevvorth his nevv devise, for the purchase of Beaver.

] CHAP. XXII. Of a Sequestration made in Nevv Canaan.

CHAP. XXIII. Of a great Bonfire made for ioy of the arrivall of great Iosua surnamed Tempervvell into the Land of Canaan.

CHAP. XXIV. Of the digrading and creating gentry in Nevv Ca∣naan.

CHAP. XXV. Of the manner hovv the Seperatists doe pay debts to them that are vvithout.

CHAP. XXVI. Of the Charity of the Seperatists.

CHAP. XXVII. Of the practise of their Church.

CHAP. XXVIII. Of their Policy inpublik Iustice.

CHAP. XXIX. Hovv mine Host vvas put into a vvhales belly.

CHAP. XXX. Of Sir Christopher Cardiner Knight, and hovv hee spedd amongst the Seperatists.

CHAP. XXXI. Of mine Host of Ma-re-Mount hovv hee played Io∣nas after hee had bin in the Whales belly for a time.

A TABLE OF THE CON∣TENTS OF THE THREE BOOKES.