{"id":73,"date":"2020-12-02T17:09:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T22:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/hi190\/?p=73"},"modified":"2020-12-20T14:38:02","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T19:38:02","slug":"august-6th-1671","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/hi190\/2020\/12\/02\/august-6th-1671\/","title":{"rendered":"August 6th, 1671"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/hi190\/files\/2020\/10\/No.-72-6-Aug-1671-MsBd-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/hi190\/files\/2020\/10\/No.-72-6-Aug-1671-MsBd-1-491x636.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"491\" height=\"636\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-74 size-medium\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/hi190\/files\/2020\/10\/No.-72-6-Aug-1671-MsBd-1-491x636.jpg 491w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/hi190\/files\/2020\/10\/No.-72-6-Aug-1671-MsBd-1-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/hi190\/files\/2020\/10\/No.-72-6-Aug-1671-MsBd-1-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/hi190\/files\/2020\/10\/No.-72-6-Aug-1671-MsBd-1-1187x1536.jpg 1187w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/hi190\/files\/2020\/10\/No.-72-6-Aug-1671-MsBd-1.jpg 1275w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 491px) 100vw, 491px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/hi190\/files\/2020\/10\/No.-72-6-Aug-1671-MsBd-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/hi190\/files\/2020\/10\/No.-72-6-Aug-1671-MsBd-2-491x636.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"491\" height=\"636\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-167 size-medium\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/hi190\/files\/2020\/10\/No.-72-6-Aug-1671-MsBd-2-491x636.jpg 491w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/hi190\/files\/2020\/10\/No.-72-6-Aug-1671-MsBd-2-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/hi190\/files\/2020\/10\/No.-72-6-Aug-1671-MsBd-2-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/hi190\/files\/2020\/10\/No.-72-6-Aug-1671-MsBd-2-1187x1536.jpg 1187w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/hi190\/files\/2020\/10\/No.-72-6-Aug-1671-MsBd-2.jpg 1275w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 491px) 100vw, 491px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment202\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment202\" style=\"width: 502px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/hi190\/files\/2020\/10\/plymouth-mapp-1622.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"492\" height=\"388\" class=\"wp-image-202 size-full\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment202\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Map of Plymouth from 1622<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" style=\"border: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d190093.20543730087!2d-70.77493972387175!3d41.88841943066591!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x89e4b9efe1b22d71%3A0xe99070cab6ea2e23!2sPlymouth%2C%20MA!5e0!3m2!1sen!2sus!4v1603896517479!5m2!1sen!2sus\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" aria-hidden=\"false\" tabindex=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong>Current Map of Plymouth<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Team Members:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hannah DiPilato and Griffin Morrill<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description: <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In August of 1671, John Elliot wrote this piece asking for peace and mercy on behalf of the Praying Indian tribe. He asks as an intercessor between the two parties due to his religious authority because there are plans to attack the tribe even though they have done nothing wrong. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/e\/2PACX-1vSP5PdLROOyWMLnMWgB7scT58qcBY01Fhhtlb9g6oUzhnQzHiIrRbtUQ3hlWG6KRgAI_qVzsyU41ewB\/pub\"><strong>Transcription:<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We the poor Church of Natik, hearing that the honored rulers as good people of Plimoth as pressing, arming of soldiers to you to war against the Missoghonoog Indians; for w<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">t<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> cause we know not. Though y<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">i<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> yet pray not to God, yet we hope w<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">t<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> will or we do mourn and pray for y<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">r<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as desire greatly y<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">t<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> y<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">i<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> may not be destroyed, especially because we have not heard y<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">t <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">y<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">r<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> have done anything worthy of death . Therefore we do stand there honor two brothers Antony and William, who w<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">e<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> formally honor messengers to y<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">oe<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> [smudge]. We request John Soassamon to joyn w<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">y<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">m<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. And this trust we comit unto you honor dear brother, as beloved:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To get to Missoghonoog Indians or who else may be concerned my quarrel tell that we the poor Church of Natik. Send these to subjects w<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ch<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> we intreat them to obey the first is [illegible] 20 . 10 [illegible]. Where we see as it is the duty of Plimtoh, to offer [illegible] before y<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ei<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> war upon you. So it is your duty to offer, accept, and desire peace as we pray you for, Gods sake, as for your souls sake, obey this word of God. The 2 text is 1 Cor. 6.1.2.3.4.5.6. where God commandeth and with y<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">r<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to whom differences asrise among people [illegible] ought to put their differences to millions of others. And therefore we do exhort you to obey this word of God and whatsoer differences are betwixt you as the English of Aquidneck or betwixt you as [scratched out illegible] Plimoth. Refr them all to the judgement of the rulers of the Massachusetts as w<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">t<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> ever y<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ei<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> judge do you obey, lay down your lives as all y<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">t<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> you have at their feet.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If they of Missoghonoog believe and accept this honored exhorition tell y<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">m<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> y<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">t <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the Church hath [illegible] sent you to the governor to tell him, the Church hath done and how acceptable it is to you and y<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">t<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> you do obey both those words of God, you desire peace, and desire to refer the whole matter, to the judgement of the government of Massachusetts.<\/span><\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> When you come to the Governor tell him the Church hath sent you to be mediators of peace, in the behalf of the Missoghonoog Indians, or any other of their neighbors. Tell him y<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">t\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">they yield willing obedience to both those texts of scripture. And therefore tell him that the poor Church of Natik both doth beseech him and all the rest of the Magistrates, for God&#8217;s sake who is the God of peace, as for Christ, his sake who is the king of peace as honor great peace maker in heaven y<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">t<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> y<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ei<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> would accept this offer, and submission unto peace and unto y<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">t <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">instituted way of making as establishing of peace, and to pressing as arming of soldiers as marching, against y<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">m <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">y<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">t<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are desirous of peace. We beseech you to consider what comfort it will be to kill or to be killed when no capital sin hath been committed or defended by y<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">m<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (that we heard off).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And we request you honor beloved brethren to be steady in your emotions, we shall endeavor to follow you [illegible] honor prayers and long to hear of a happy peace that may open a clear door for this passing of the gospel among those peoples, thus commending you to God in prayers, and doe send you forth upon this great service of peace making, oh is eminently the flower of glory of Christ his kingdom.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Natik August of 6th <\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">John Eliot\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1671 <\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">w<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the consent of the church\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From M : Elliot and\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Natick [illegible]\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[illegible] G : 71\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Aug. 6. 1671\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No. 72<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConjectural Plan of the Fortified Town of Plymouth, 1622.\u201d <i>The Plymouth Colony Archive Project<\/i>, www.histarch.illinois.edu\/plymouth\/fortplan.html.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/hi190\/transcriptions\/\">Click here to return to list of all transcriptions<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current Map of Plymouth Team Members: Hannah DiPilato and Griffin Morrill Description: In August of 1671, John Elliot wrote this piece asking for peace and mercy on behalf of the Praying Indian tribe. 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