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1603: Here’s a color cover image of Pring‘s young guiternist…

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To read Pring’s account carefully, many of the events related here may very well have happened somewhere along the Massachusetts coast.  However, the story paints a stark picture of the dynamics between early European explorers, native peoples, and the natural resources they shared.

As a report to his shareholders (“the Adventurers”), Pring kept a detailed journal of his trip.

(online fascimile edition @ http://www.americanjourneys.org/aj-040/summary/index.asp)

For more on this time period, see “The Contact Era” @ SeacoastNH.com.
For more on Pring, see “The Unsung Columbus of New Hampshire” from the same site.

ALSO:

• Martin Pring @ wikipedia >>