Two Narratives of the Expedition Against Quebec, A. D. 1690, Under Sir William Phips (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Two Narratives of the Expedition Against Quebec, A. D. 1690, Under Sir William Phips At a meeting of the Massachusetts Historical Society, held in Boston on Thursday, November 14, 1901, Hon. Samuel A. Green presented two unpublished narratives of the expedition of Sir William Phips against Canada, in 1690, and said: - I wish to communicate copies of two manuscripts belonging to the Lenox Library in New York. They relate to Sir William Phip's sexpedition against Quebec in the summer of 1690, and are contemporaneous accounts of that unsuccessful attempt to drive the French from Canada. These interesting papers were found in Paris, and were bought by the Trustees of the Library eight years ago, since which time they have been put in elegant binding of crushed levant morocco. It is through the courtesy of Wilberforce Eames, A. M., the accomplished librarian and bibliographer, that I have obtained the copies, and I desire to make a public acknowledgment of the obligation. The first of these papers, according to the heading, was written by the Reverend John Wise, of Ipswich, and is signed with his initials, but the other is unsigned, and the writer unknown. Neither one is specifically addressed to any person, but from the internal evidence it is clear that, strictly speaking, they were not official documents. They were accounts, rather, given by persons who took part in the expedition, and sent to a third person who was interested in the subject. 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.