This revised collection of documents provides a large and colorful slice of colonial life between 1608 and 1767, newly augmented with documents on the southern colonies, African Americans, and women.

Excerpt from A Declaration of Remarkable Providences in the Course of My Life Annexed are c similes of three autographs. The first 18 that of the narrator's father, written in 1658, the second is his own, 1683, and the last 18 that of his brother, Rev. Francis Dane of Andover, ab. 1660. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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John Porter was born in England about 1596 and immigrated in 1637 to Hingham, Massachusetts. In 1643 he moved to Salem Village (now Danvers), Massachusetts. He died in 1676.