Daniel Gookin, 1617-1687. Assistant and Major General of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. His Life and Letters and Some Account of His Ancestry.
Chicago: Lakeside Press, 1912. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (royal). Near Fine. Item #017098
No. 39 of 202 Copies Privately Printed. Tan quarter-cloth spine, decorative gilt armorial arms on-laid on upper front board, paper printed spine label, xvi, 207pp, with [10] plates plus frontispiece, decorated with armorial headpieces, light foxing to pages and endpapers, ISNCRIBED by author on front fly leaf, gilt faded, corners and boards worn, heavy sunning and fraying on spine, small stains on rear board. Near Fine [Howes G251]. This work covers Gookin's defense of Christian Indigenous communities during King Philip's War, which made him controversial among many colonists. He was a Major General of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. His writings and letters about Native American life are addressed, in addition to colonial politics, religion, and frontier society.
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