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Excerpt from More Seven Club Tales: Found in Mr. Jefferay's Papers Marked; Some Strange Relatings, Sent by Divers
Mr. Jefferay's valued visit hath minded me to send this for his reading, (if worthy) at the Seven Club, so called. I came, as you know, among that band, (many of us from Braintree, ) who first settled Block Island, near half a score years since. It may be deemed in a degree presump tuous for one of my youth, (scarce turned of thirty), to tell aught that might interest mine elders; and tho' I have been honored in counsel, and acted in the concerns of our holy religion (for want of other minister), yet I should be slow to give from mine own experience any relatings whatsoever. I shall rather tell what I heard from another, upon first coming to the island, in the year of our Lord 1661. At that time there was a considerable number of Indians on Block Island, with some grown ancient; and what I shall relate came from the Oldest of these, (near an hundred years by his reckoning), one more than passing wise for any of that race. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
