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Manuscript notes from and upon a copy of "America painted to the life" etc. by Fernando Gorges, London 1659, containing mss. notes of Rev. Thomas Prince, now in possession of Mr. Sumner Hollingsworth of Boston, and most generously lent by him to Ch. Eadward Pratt for this use, 19 June 1895.

Title
  1. Manuscript notes from and upon a copy of "America painted to the life" etc. by Fernando Gorges, London 1659, containing mss. notes of Rev. Thomas Prince, now in possession of Mr. Sumner Hollingsworth of Boston, and most generously lent by him to Ch. Eadward Pratt for this use, 19 June 1895.
Author
  1. Pratt, Charles E. (Charles Eadward), 1845-1898.

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Additional authors
  1. Prince, Thomas, 1687-1758.
Description
  1. .21 linear foot (1 volume)
Alternative title
  1. America painted to the life. : A true history of the originall undertakings of the advancement of plantations into those parts, with a perfect relation of our English discoveries ... 1628. to 1658. declaring the forms of their government, policies, religions, manners, customes, military disciplines, warres with the Indians, the commodities of their countries, a description of their townes, and havens, the increase of their trading with the names of their governours and magistrates. More especially an absolute narrative of the north parts of America, and of the discoveries and plantations of our English in New-England. Written by Sir Ferdinando Gorges .... Publisht ... by his grand-child Ferdinando Gorges Esquire, who hath much enlarged it and added severall accurate descriptions of his owne.
Subject
  1. America > Discovery and exploration > Spanish
  2. Hollingsworth, Sumner
  3. New England > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
  4. Indians of North America > Early works to 1800
  5. Gorges, Ferdinando, 1629-1718
Call number
  1. MssCol 1181
Access (note)
  1. Apply to Manuscripts and Archives Division for access at http://www.nypl.org/mssref.
Author
  1. Pratt, Charles E. (Charles Eadward), 1845-1898.
Title
  1. Manuscript notes from and upon a copy of "America painted to the life" etc. by Fernando Gorges, London 1659, containing mss. notes of Rev. Thomas Prince, now in possession of Mr. Sumner Hollingsworth of Boston, and most generously lent by him to Ch. Eadward Pratt for this use, 19 June 1895.
Restricted access
  1. Apply to Manuscripts and Archives Division for access at http://www.nypl.org/mssref.
Added author
  1. Prince, Thomas, 1687-1758.
Added title
  1. America painted to the life. : A true history of the originall undertakings of the advancement of plantations into those parts, with a perfect relation of our English discoveries ... 1628. to 1658. declaring the forms of their government, policies, religions, manners, customes, military disciplines, warres with the Indians, the commodities of their countries, a description of their townes, and havens, the increase of their trading with the names of their governours and magistrates. More especially an absolute narrative of the north parts of America, and of the discoveries and plantations of our English in New-England. Written by Sir Ferdinando Gorges .... Publisht ... by his grand-child Ferdinando Gorges Esquire, who hath much enlarged it and added severall accurate descriptions of his owne.
Research call number
  1. MssCol 1181
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