Praise the Lord, O England’s Jerusalem: and Netherland’s Zion, praise ye the Lord! He hath secured your gates, and blessed your possessions with peace, even here, where the threatened torch of war was lighted.

We pray that the deceitful race – such hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ – be not allowed to further infect and trouble this new colony.

Nothing is of greater importance than the right early instruction of youth.

Powder and provisions failing, and no relief or reinforcement being expected, we were necessitated to come to terms with the enemy.

It would be altogether too tedious to insert here all the annual petitions for powder which were sometimes repeated two or three times a year.

To let her dail would be the greatest profit both for the company and for the merchants.

The people are grown very wild and loose in their morals.

The Jews who have arrived would nearly all like to remain here.

The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg.

It is not the least anxiety that we have so little powder and lead on hand.