Native Americans, Conversion, and Christian Practice in Colonial New England, 1640—1730

Fortunately, the two travelers arrived before sunset. Earlier in the day, on 5 May 1674, John Eliot and Daniel Gookin had set out from Boston for Wamesit, the northernmost of the fourteen Indian “praying towns” within the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and the one most subjected to retaliatory attacks fr...

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Main Author: Fisher, Linford D. (Author)
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 2009
In: Harvard theological review
Year: 2009, Volume: 102, Issue: 1, Pages: 101-124
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