Category: 1600s
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Journal of Martin Pring (cover + intro)
1603: Here’s a color cover image of Pring’s young guiternist…
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Pring 16 ~ “Wee did behold to burne”
1603: The crew of Martin Pring’s last ship watch the New England coast go up in flames…
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Pring 15 ~ Final Fire
1603: The dogs save the fort, communications break down, and the expedition heads for home in this EXCITING CONCLUSION of Martin Pring’s Journal!
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Pring 13 ~ Sassafras Harvest
Things go quickly awry when Pring’s men exhaust the local supply of sassafras…
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Pring 12 ~ As The Land is Full
Wherein we can perhaps glimpse the little gold “crownes” in Pring’s eyes as he ogles the natives’ pelts …
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Pring 11 ~ Sassafras Forest
Pring notes some of the many potential applications of the New England forests …
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Pring 10 ~ Rich and Fat Ground
After sailing around the New England coast for many weeks, the English run low on provisions, and so …
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Pring 09 ~ We beheld their Gardens
Martin Pring ventures upriver in native canoes for a garden tour…
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Pring 04 ~ Sassafras Dance
Quite possibly the first world-fusion dance party in New England history…
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Pring 03 ~ Meeting the Locals
The native people of NH’s seacoast take some interest in Martin Pring’s sassafras harvesting expedition …
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Pring 01 ~ Quest for Sassafras
Martin Pring details his visit to the New Hampshire seacoast in 1603.