...certainly to knowe, that within these late yeares there hath by God's visitation raigned a wonderful! Plague, together with many horrible slaughters and...contiguity with the European race. Whether it was for their disregard of the light of nature, and their consequent devotedness to iniquity, or for some other cause,...

...mortally swept them away, I cannot learn. I have discoursed with some old Indians that were then youths, who say that the bodies all over were exceeding yellow,...showed me,) both before they died, and afterwards." It has been inferred from this that it was the yellow fever ; but whether correctly or not seems undetermined.1...

...scourge the words of Gookin were, " I have discoursed with some old Indian's, that were then youths, who say that the bodies all over were exceeding yellow,...that such a pestilence resembled the yellow fever. Whether it was for their disregard of the light of nature, and their consequent devotedness to iniquity,...

...that were then youths (in the time of the plague), who say that the bodies all over were exceedingly yellow ; describing it by a yellow garment they showed me, both before they died and afterwards." It is estimated that, on the arrival of the English, there were about twenty thousand Indians within...

...that were then youths (in the time of the plague), who say that the bodies all over were exceedingly yellow ; describing it by a yellow garment they showed me, both before they died and afterwards." It is estimated that, on the arrival of the English, there were about twenty thousand Indians within...

...it was some pestilential disease. I have discoursed with some old Indians, that were then youths ; who say, that the bodies all over were exceeding yellow,...garment they showed me, both before they died and afterward. The Massachusetts, being the next great people northward, inhabited principally about that...

...it was some pestilential disease. I have discoursed with some old Indians, that were then youths ; who say, that the bodies all over were exceeding yellow,...garment they showed me, both before they died and afterward. The Massachusetts, being the next great people northward, inhabited principally about that...

...Newt, (in Young's Collection,) p. 281. See, also, Old Indian Chronicle, f. 64-6. were then youths, who say, that the bodies all over were exceeding yellow,...showed me, both before they died, and afterwards." The same author says of the Massachusetts, — they were the next great people northward of the Wampanoags,...

...their neighbors, I cannot well learn. I have discoursed with some old Indians, that were then youths, who say, that the bodies all over were exceeding yellow,...showed me, both before they died, and afterwards." The same author says of the Massachusetts,—they were the next great people northward of the Wampanoags,...

...mortally swept them away, I cannot learn. I have discoursed with some old Indians, that were then youths, who say, that the bodies all over were exceeding yellow...showed me), both before they died and afterwards." This disease, therefore, must have been yellow fever, not plague. Referring to this visitation, Noah Webster...