A Brief History of the Pequot War (1736)

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16.26 Leaguer ] A military camp, especially one engaged in a siege;
an investing force. (OED)
16.29 Mr. Thos. Stanton ] (d.1678) of Hartford, and later (1658) of
Stonington.
17.7 Serjeant Stares ] Thomas Staires (d.1640) of Windsor.
18.2–3 Edward Pomroye’s ] probably Eltweed Pomeroy (1585–1673)
of Hartford.
22.10 John Dier ] or Dyer, of Windsor (d.1659).
22.10 Thomas Stiles ] or Styles, of Windsor; he later removed to
Long Island.
22.21 Mr. William Wadsworth ] (1594–1675) of Hartford.
22.22 Deacon Stebbin ] Edward Stebbins (1595–1663) of Hartford.
Note on the Text
This online electronic edition of A Brief History of the Pequot War
is based on the first book edition, edited and published by Thomas
Prince in Boston in 1736. The spelling, punctuation, capitalization,
italics, and pagination scheme follow the original source.
The text was transcribed from digital page images of the the Library
of Congress copy of the 1736 edition, accessed in the Sabin
Americana collection, and was collated against the Readex
Microprint edition of the American Antiquarian Society’s copy
(Evans no. 4033). Some typographical errors have been corrected
and a list is provided below, keyed to page and line of the present
edition (the line count includes chapter headings, but not running
heads or hairlines):
Page.line 1736 edition emended to
i.19 dist didst
ii.9 Capt Capt.
i.11 to own to my own
iv.24 Mason’ s Mason’ s.
vi.30 Accoun s Accounts
x.26 pelased pleased
10.19 Ba ks Barks
10.21 Diffi ulties Difficulties
21.24 condfie confide
22.12–13 Eyebrew Eyebrow
It appears that the original printers, Samuel Kneeland (1697–
1769) and his cousin Timothy Green II (1703–1763), put considerably
greater effort and care into the ornamentation than into the
justification of the type. Many lines lack even word spacing, and
separate words are often run together, even where adequate word
spacing exists elsewhere on the same line. The following passages
have been emended by the addition of word space:
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