. Genealogy of the descendants of John White of Wenham and Lancaster, Massachusetts. : 1638-[1909] .... I was somewhatfavoured in my load : I carried only my knitting-work, and two quartsof parched meal. Being very faint, I asked my mistress to give meone spoonful of the meal, but she would not give me a taste. Theyquickly fell to cutting dry trees, to make rafts to carry them over theriver, and soon my turn came to go over. By the advantage of somebrush which they laid upon the raft to sit on, I did not wet my foot(while many of themselves at the other end were mid-leg deep),which cannot but
. Genealogy of the descendants of John White of Wenham and Lancaster, Massachusetts. : 1638-[1909] .... I was somewhatfavoured in my load : I carried only my knitting-work, and two quartsof parched meal. Being very faint, I asked my mistress to give meone spoonful of the meal, but she would not give me a taste. Theyquickly fell to cutting dry trees, to make rafts to carry them over theriver, and soon my turn came to go over. By the advantage of somebrush which they laid upon the raft to sit on, I did not wet my foot(while many of themselves at the other end were mid-leg deep),which cannot but be acknowledged as a favor of God to my weakenedbody, it being a very cold time. I was not before acquainted withsuch kind of doings or dangers. When thou passest through thewaters I will be with thee, and through the rivers they shall not over-flow thee. Isai. 43, 2. A certain number of us got over the riverthat night, but it was the night after the Sabbath before all thecompany was got over. On Saturday they boiled an old horses leg(which they had got) and so we drank of the broth as soon as they. u o co JOHN WHITE. 781 thought it was ready, and when it was almost all gone they filledit up again. The first week of my being among them, I hardly eatanything; the second week I found my stomach grow very faint forwant of something, and yet it was very hard to get down their filthytrash; but the third week (though I could think how formerly mystomach would turn against this or that and would starve and diebefore I would eat such things, yet) they were pleasant and savoury tomy taste. I was at this time knitting a pair of white cotton stockingsfor my mistress, and I had not yet wrought upon the Sabbath the Sabbath came they bid me go to work; I told them it wasSabbath day, and desired them to let me rest, and told them I wouldas much more work to-morrow ; to which they answered me they wouldbreak my face. And here I cannot but take notice of the strangeProvidence of God in
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