New Englands prospect : a true, lively, and experimentall description of that part of America, commonly called New England: discovering the state of that countrie, both as it stands to our new-come English planters; and to the old native inhabitants. Laying downe that which may both enrich the knowledge of the mind-travelling reader, or benefit the future voyager / By William Wood.

Accession number

PML 55859

Creator

Wood, William, active 1629-1635.

Published

Printed at London : By Tho. Cotes, for John Bellamie, and are to be sold at his shop, at the three golden lyons in Corne-hill, neere the Royall Exchange, 1635.

Credit line

Gift of Henry S. Morgan, 1965.

Notes

"Earliest topographical account of the Massachusetts Colony by a resident of four years."--Vail, R.W.G. Voice of the old frontier, p. 87. First published in 1634.
"Because many have desired to heare some of the natives language, I have here inserted a small nomenclator ..."--p. [84-88].

Description

[8], 83, [5] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map

Provenance

Mrs. Morgan's collection.

Classification

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