Early encounters-- Native Americans and Europeans in New England : from the papers of W. Sears Nickerson / [edited by] Delores Bird Carpenter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nickerson, Warren Sears, 1881-1966.

Contributor:

Carpenter, Delores Bird.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--First contact with other peoples--New England.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--New England--History.

New England--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

New England.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Early Encounters contains a selection of nineteen essays from the papers of prominent New England historian, antiquarian, and genealogist Warren Sears Nickerson (1880-1966). This extensive study of his own family ties to the Mayflower, and his exhaustive investigation of the first contacts between Europeans and Native Americans, in what is today New England, made him an unquestioned authority in both fields. The research upon which the text of Early Encounters is based occurred between the 1920's and the 1950's. Each of Nickerson's works included in this carefully edited volume is placed

Contents:

Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Before the Mayflower: The Vikings and the French; The Wineland of Leif the Lucky; First Blood: The Death of the Carpenter of St. Malo; The Fight at Fortuné: Champlain at Stage Harbor; The Coming of the Mayflower; The Captain of the Mayflower; That Bright Dawn When Mayflower I First Sighted Cape; William Bradford's First Wife: A Suicide; The First Encounter; The Sparrow Hawk; The French, the English, and the Indians: War in the Colonies, 1690-1745; Mary Corliss Neff; How the Smiths Came to Cape Cod: Mary Smith of Oyster River

Honor Bright: Elizabeth Vickery and the French Privateers Exploit of a Cape Cod Indian at Louisbourg, 1745; Life and Legend on Cape Cod; A Cape Cod Colonial: Uncle Elathun''s House; The Wading Place Path; Pompmo and the Legend of Paw Waw''s Pond; Old Maushope''s Smoke: A Cape Cod Indian Fog Legend; Native American History and Genealogy; The Praying Indians of Lower Cape Cod; The Old Sagamore: Mattaquason of Monomoyick; Micah Rafe, Indian Man: Last Full Blood on Lower Cape Cod; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-62895-188-5

0-87013-901-0

0-585-18823-8

OCLC:

44958459