The History of New-England (Volume 2); Containing an Impartial Account of the Civil and Ecclesiastical Affairs of the Country to the Year of Our Lord, 1700 to Which Is Added the Present State of New-England with a New and Accurate Map of the Coutnry, and (Paperback)

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1720. Excerpt: ... Captain PhipsV Expedition to the Spanish Wreck. The Rise of the War between the English and Indians, in which the French take Part. The Revolution 9s the Government os New-England. The Progress of the War. Examples of the deplorable Circumstances ofthe Prisoners taken by / DEGREESIndians. The Reduction DEGREESL'Acadie, or New-Scotland, Sir William Phips"j unfortunate Expedition against Quebec. The 'French and Indians fright arvayhe Frontier-Garrisons, and ravage the Country. The English defeated at Wheelwright-Pond. A Truce concluded. The Death and Char aft er of the Reverend Mr. John Eliot, the Apostle of the Indians. r U R Histories arc foil of Tragical Complaints of the Oppressions and Miseries of the English Nation under the Government of King James ==" the Second. King Charles had broke in upon the Constitution, and his Brother resolved to overturn it, and had ccrtajnly accomplished "plished his Designs, if his Ministers had not pre- A-m cipitated him into rash and violent Measures; DEGREES5 had he flatter'd the Church, he had made himself absolute Monarch of the State; but this must be said for the Honour of that unhappy Prince, that he never disguised his Principles; his Administration was all of a Piece, till within a Month or two of his Abdication, when the Fright of the Prince of Orange's Invasion made him undo in two or three Weeks what had been more than so many Years a doing. The King trod in his Brother's Steps, and pursued the very same Measures. He persecuted the Dissenters with the utmost Violencej insomuch that some who had rid out all the Storms of King Charles the Second, now fled their native Country; among these the most eminent was the Reverend Mr. Samuel Lee, Minister of a Dissenting Congregation in London, who fearing the Return of Popish Cruelties fled to New-England in...