Narrative and Critical History of America, Vol. 5 (of 8) / The English and French in North America 1689-1763

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[790] In the spring before this attack a New England man, Rev. Joseph Lord, then ministering not far from Charlestown, was congratulating himself by letter to Samuel Sewall, of Boston (writing from Dorchester, in South Carolina, March 25, 1706), on “freedom from annoyance by y^e Spaniards, especially considering all, so soon after the proclamation of war, began with them.” He then goes on to inform his correspondent that he believed some of the neighboring tribes to be wandering remnants of the Narragansetts and Pequods. N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., xiii. p. 299.

[791] It was reprinted at Charleston in 1822, and is included in Carroll’s Hist. Collections (ii. 85). Cf. Brinley, ii. no. 3,839; Harvard Coll. Lib’y Cat., no. 13352.6; Barlow’s Rough List, no. 779; Stevens, Bib. Am., 1885, no. 18, £5 5s. Doyle (The English in America, p. 437) fitly calls it “confused and rambling.” The same judgment was earlier expressed by Rivers; but Grahame (ii. p. 140), touching it more generously on its human side, calls it replete with good sense, benevolence, and piety.

[792] Pages 207, 231.

[793] A German version of the first edition was printed at Hamburg in 1715 as Das Gros-Britannische Scepter in der Neuen Welt; and Theodor Arnold published in 1744 a translation of the second edition, called Das Britische Reich in America, reproducing Moll’s map, but giving the names in German. Carroll’s Hist. Collections (ii. 391) gives the essential extracts from Oldmixon.

[794] It was reprinted at Raleigh in 1860. A work called The Natural History of North Carolina by John Brickell, M. D., Dublin, 1737, is Lawson’s book, with some transpositions, changes, and omissions. (Carter-Brown, iii. no. 560; Brinley, ii. no. 3,843.) This last book is sufficiently changed not to be considered a mere careless reprint of Lawson, as J. A. Allen points out in his Bibliog. of Cetacea and Sirenia, no. 208. Brickell was a physician settled in North Carolina. A German translation of Lawson by M. Vischer, Allerneuste Beschreibung der Provinz Carolina in West Indien, was printed at Hamburg in 1712; and again in 1722. (Sabin, iii. no. 10,957; v. no. 39,451, etc.; Carter-Brown, iii. nos. 119, 125, 158, 169, 233; Cooke, no. 1,409; Murphy, nos. 1,448-49; Barlow’s Rough List, no. 787; O’Callaghan, no. 1,349; J. A. Allen’s Bibliography of Cetacea, etc., nos. 165, 167, 170, 174; Field, Indian Bibliog., nos. 896-899; Brinley, ii. no. 3,873.) Quaritch (1885) priced the original 1709 edition at £5, and I find it also quoted at £6 6s. The German version repeats Lawson’s map, and also has one called “Louisiana am Fluss Mississippi.”

[795] Indian Bibliog., p. 228.

[796] Hist. of Amer. Literature, ii. p. 282.

[797] Lawson’s book was accompanied by a map, and a part of it, giving the North Carolina coast, is reproduced by Dr. Hawks (ii. 103). Mr. Deane’s copy has the map. Prof. F. M. Hubbard, writing in 1860 in the North American Review, said, “We know after much inquiry of the existence of only four copies in this country. About 1820, a copy then thought to be unique was offered for sale at auction in North Carolina and brought nearly sixty dollars.” The book now is less rare than this writer supposed.

[798] Auszfuhrlich und umstandlicher Bericht von der berühmten Landschaft Carolina, in dem Engelländischen America gelegen. An Tag gegeben von Kocherthalern. Dritter Druck, mit einem Anhang, ... nebst einer Land-Charte. Frankfort a. M. 1709. (Sabin, iii. no. 10,959; Stevens, Bib. Amer., 1885, no. 75, £5 5s.) Das verlangte, nicht erlangte Canaan, oder ausführliche Beschreibung der unglücklichen Reise derer jüngsthin aus Teutschland nach Carolina und Pensylvania wallenden Pilgrim, absonderlich dem Kochenthalerischen Bericht entgegen gesetzt. Frankfort, 1711. This is a rare tract about the emigration from the Pfälz. (Sabin, iii. no. 10,960; Harrassowitz, Americana (81), no. 114 at 50 marks; Harvard Coll. Lib’y Catalogue, no. 12352.10; Stevens, Bib. Amer., 1885, no. 77, £4 14s. 6d.) A Letter from South Carolina giving an account of the soil, etc.... Written by a Swiss gentleman to his friend at Bern. London, 1710. There were other editions in 1718, 1732. (Carter-Brown, iii. nos. 143, 239, 493; Harvard College Lib’y Catalogue, nos. 12354.4 and 5.)

Bernheim’s German Settlements, later to be mentioned, is the best modern summary of these Swiss and German immigrations.