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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

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 the tractable nature and love towards the English. The seconde 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 practice of their church. Written by Thomas Morton of Cliffords inne gent, upon tenne yeares knowledge and experiment of the country.

Accession number
PML 3609
Creator
Morton, Thomas, 1575-1646.
Published
Amsterdam, J.F. Stam, 1637.
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
The poem on pp. 146-149 is by Ben Jonson.
Description
188, [3] p. 18 cm
Provenance
From the Theodore Irwin collection.
Binding
Brown morocco.
Classification
Department