 | New Collection - 1711 - 686 sivua
...is green, and are never damag'd thereby. The SmallFox and Rujft have made fuch a Deftru&ion amongft them, that, on good grounds, I do believe, there is not the iixth Savage living within two hundred Miles of all oac Settlements, as there were fifty Years ago.... | |
 | John Lawson - 1903 - 204 sivua
...grounds, I do not believe there Is the sixth Savage living within two hundred Miles of our Settlement as there were fifty years ago. These poor Creatures...to destroy them, that it Is a wonder one of them is left alive amongst us. The SmallPox I have acquainted you withal above, and so I have of Rum, and so... | |
 | william christie macleod - 1928 - 586 sivua
...SMALLPOX AND OTHER DISEASES AMONG THE INDIANS " The smallpox and rum have made such a destruction among them that, on good grounds, I do believe there is...that it is a wonder one of them is alive near us." — LAWSON, 1709. x HANDICAPPED by his inferior methods of production as compared with Europe, and... | |
 | John Reed Swanton - 1946 - 1106 sivua
...almost in all distempers. Their chief Instruments for that operation is the teeth of rattlesnakes, which they poison withal. They take them out of the...all our settlements, as there were fifty years ago. (Lawson, 1860, pp. 347-363.)* Elsewhere he has something to say about the use of certain vegetable... | |
 | Roger L. Nichols - 1986 - 328 sivua
...1701, when perhaps ten thousand Indians were still there, estimated that CAROLINAS AND VIRGINIA . 1700 "there is not the sixth Savage living within two hundred...all our Settlements, as there were fifty Years ago." The recent smallpox epidemic "destroy'd whole Towns," he remarked, "without leaving one Indian alive... | |
 | Stuart B. Schwartz - 1994 - 648 sivua
...interior.2-"1 According to John Lawson, traveling through the Carolina Piedmont after 1700, "The Small-Pox and Rum, have made such a Destruction amongst them...of all our Settlements, as there were fifty Years ago."24 In the 1670s, when the English gained a foothold in South Carolina, the Cherokees probably... | |
 | Peter C. Mancall - 1995 - 292 sivua
...Drunkenness," and that it contributed directly to the decline of southern Indians; combined with smallpox, rum "made such a Destruction amongst them, that, on good...of all our Settlements, as there were fifty Years ago."28 The accidents and deaths that followed drinking sessions troubled perceptive observers throughout... | |
 | H. Trawick Ward, R. P. Stephen Davis - 1999 - 334 sivua
...depopulation (50-53). It was his experience with these more northern groups that led Lawson to remark that "there is not the sixth Savage living within two hundred...all our Settlements, as there were fifty years ago" (232). The archaeological record also points to a late arrival of epidemic diseases in the Siouan area.... | |
 | Peter C. Mancall, James Hart Merrell - 2000 - 612 sivua
...Drunkenness," and that it contributed directly to the decline of southern Indians; combined with smallpox, rum "made such a Destruction amongst them, that, on good...of all our Settlements, as there were fifty Years ago."13 their little Houses," declared Samuel Danforth, preaching at Bristol, Rhode Island, in October... | |
 | Marvin T. Smith - 2002 - 411 sivua
...English, but what have been great losers by this distemper." The traveler estimated that "the Small-Pox and Rum have made such a Destruction amongst them...of all our settlements, as there were fifty years ago."58 By February 1697, smallpox had made its way to South Carolina. Some representatives to the... | |
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The Small-Pox and Rum, have made such a Destruction amongst them that, on good Grounds, I do believe, there is not the sixth Savage living within two hundred Miles of all our Settlements, as there were fifty Years ago. 
