...Appendix. Mather says, probably from tradition, that the governour " was distributing the last handful of meal in the barrel unto a poor man distressed by the wolf at the door;'' and the language of Capt. Clap, one of the suflerers, Prince II. 10, is ranch more satisfactory, because...

...Dudley, and Mr. Nowell the ruling 1 Note II. 2 Town Records. 3 Mather says that on this day Gov. Winthrop was distributing the last handful of the meal in the...unto a poor man distressed by the wolf at the door, when at that instant they spied a ship arrived at the harbor's mouth laden with provisions for them...

...Appendix. Mather says, probably from tradition, that the governour " was distributing the last handful of meal in the barrel unto a poor man distressed by the wolf at the door ;" and the language of Capt. Clap, one of the sufferers, Prince U. 10, is much more satisfactory, because...

...seen, carried him chearfully through those expences. Once it was observable that, on February 6, 1630, when he was distributing the last handful of the meal...governour sometimes made his own private purse to be the pitblick: not by suddng into it, but by squeezing out of it ; for when the publick treasure had nothing...

...seen, carried him chearfully through those expences. Once it was observable that, on February 5, 1630, when he was distributing the last handful of the meal..."wolf at the door," at that instant they spied a ship k arrived at the harbour's mouth, laden with provisions for them all. Yea, the governour sometimes...

...that, when this vessel appeared, the Governor " was distributin" the last handful of the meal in the o barrel unto a poor man distressed by the wolf at the door." Contemporary relations are more to the purpose, as those of Clap and Johnson, who came with Winthrop's...

...taking 1 Mather says (Magnalia, Book II. Chap. IV. §6) that, when this vessel appeared, the Governor " was distributing the last handful of the meal in the...unto a poor man distressed by the wolf at the door." Contemporary relations are more to the purpose, as those of Clap and Johnson, who came with Winthrop's...

...taking 1 Mather says (Magnalia, Book II. Chap. IV. §6) that, -when this vessel appeared, the Governor " was distributing the last handful of the meal in the...unto a poor man distressed by the wolf at the door." Contemporary relations are more to the purpose, as those of Clap and Johnson, who came with Winthrop's...

...1631, Cotton Mather describes Winthrop as distributing, with signal humanity, " the last handful of meal in the barrel unto a poor man distressed by the wolf at the door; " and " at that instant," he adds, " they spied a ship arrived at the harbour's mouth, laden with provisions...

...1631, Cotton Mather describes Wmthrop as distributing, with signal humanity, " the last handful of meal in the barrel unto a poor man distressed by the wolf at the door ; " and " at that instant," he adds, " they spied a ship arrived at the harbour's. mouth, laden with...