Transcriber's Notes:
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Original spellings and formatting have been retained as originallypublished.
A
NARRATIVE
OF THE
SUFFERINGS,
Preservation and Deliverance,
OF
Capt. John Dean and Company;
In the Nottingham Galley of London, cast away on Boon-Island,near New England, December, 11, 1710.
London: Printed by R. Tookey, and sold by S. Popping at theRaven in Paternoster-Row, and at the Printing Press under theRoyal-Exchange, Cornhil.
(1711)
TARRYTOWN, NEW YORK
REPRINTED
WILLIAM ABBATT,
1917
Being Extra Number 59 of The Magazine of History with Notes and Queries
THE
PUBLISHER
TO THE
READER
A Few Months past, I little expected to appear in Print (especiallyon such Occasion) but the frequent Enquiries of many curious Persons(as also the Design of others, to publish the Account without us) seemto lay me under an absolute Necessity, least others less acquainted,prejudice the Truth with an imperfect Relation. Therefore, findingmyself oblig'd to expose this small Treatise to publick View andCensure, I perswade my self, that what's here recorded will be entirelycredited, by all candid, ingenious Spirits; for whose kind Opinion I amreally sollicitous.
I presume any Person acquainted with my Brother will readily believethe Truth hereof: And for the Satisfaction of others, I would hope needonly offer, that both his Character and my own may be easily gain'd byEnquiry. Likewise several of his Fellow Sufferers being now in Town,their Attestations might be procur'd, if saw a real Necessity.
I have in the whole endeavoer'd a plain smooth, unaffected stile;suitable to the Occasion, carefully avoiding unnecessary Enlargements,and relating only Matters of Fact.
I must acknowledge to have (in composing from my Brother's Copy)omitted many lesser Circumstances, least shou'd swell this Narrativebeyond it's first Design, and thereby exceed the Bounds of commonPurchase.
It's almost needless to intimate what Approbation the Copy hasreceiv'd, from many Persons of the most curious and discerningJudgments who have done me the Favour to view it, urging itsPublication, and (at least) flattering me with an Expectation of ageneral Acceptance, considering it both as Novel and Real.
I cannot but also take Encouragement from the Value and Esteem it metwith when appearing under much greater Disadvantages, as to Particularsand Dress in New England, North Britain, &c. So that adventure it