"Good news from New England" / by Edward Winslow ; edited by Kelly Wisecup.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Winslow, Edward, 1595-1655, author.

Contributor:

Wisecup, Kelly, 1981- editor.

Series:

Native Americans of the Northeast.

Native Americans of the Northeast

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony)--Early works to 1800.

Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony).

Indians of North America--Massachusetts.

Indians of North America.

Massachusetts--History--New Plymouth, 1620-1691.

Massachusetts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (194 pages).

Edition:

A scholarly edition.

Place of Publication:

Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : University of Massachusetts Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

First published in 1624, Edward Winslow's Good News from New England chronicles the early experience of the Plimoth colonists, or Pilgrims, in the New World.For several years Winslow acted as the Pilgrims' primary negotiator with New England Algonquians, including the Wampanoag, Massachusett, and Narragansett Indians.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: Edward Winslow, Good News from New England (1624)

Part II: Related Texts

Section 1: Captives and Emissaries

1. From the Voyages of Giovanni da Verrazzano, 1524-1528

2. From James Rosier, A True Relation of the Most Prosperous Voyage Made this Present Year 1605, by Captain George Waymouth, in the Discovery of the Land of Virginia (1605)

3. From Ferdinando Gorges, "A Description of New England," in America Painted to the Life ... an Absolute Narrative of the North Parts of America, and of the Discoveries and Plantations of our English in Virginia, New-England, and Barbados (1659)

4. From Phenehas Pratt, A Declaration of the Affairs of the English People that first Inhabited New England (1662)

Section 2: Disease and Disorder

1. From John Smith, A Description of New England: Or the Observations, and Discoveries, of Captain John Smith (Admiral of that Country) in the North of America (1616)

2. From Ferdinando Gorges, "A Description of New England" (1659)

3. From Ferdinando Gorges, A Brief Narration or the Original Undertakings of the Advancement of Plantations Into the Parts of America (1658)

4. From Thomas Dermer, "To his Worshipful Friend M. Samuel Purchas, Preacher of the Word, at the Church a Little within Ludgate, London" (1625)

5. From Thomas Morton, New English Canaan or New Canaan. Containing an Abstract of New England, Composed in Three Books (1637)

6. From Robert Cushman, A Sermon Preached at Plimoth in New England ... Written in the Year 1621 (1622)

Section 3: Compromise and Conflict

1. From William Bradford and Edward Winslow, A Relation or Journal of the Beginning and Proceedings of the English Plantation Settled at Plimoth in New England, By Certain English Adventurers Both Merchants and others (1622).

2. From William Bradford, History of the Plimoth Plantation Containing an Account of the Voyage of the 'Mayflower' Written by William Bradford (1896)

3. Edward Winslow, "A Journey to Packanokick, The Habitation of the Great King Massasoyt. As also our Message, the Answer and Entertainment we Had of Him" (1622)

4. Edward Winslow, "A Letter Sent from New-England to a Friend in These Parts, Setting Forth a Brief and True Declaration of the Worth of that Plantation

As also Certain Useful Directions for Such as Intend a Voyage Into Those Parts" (1622)

5. From Phenehas Pratt, A Declaration of the Affairs of the English People that first Inhabited New England (1662)

6. John Robinson to William Bradford (1623)

Bibliography

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Originally published: London : Printed by I. D. John Dawson for W. Bladen and J. Bellamie, 1624.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-61376-305-0

OCLC:

933516712