https://padlet.com/greaterlowelltechnical/tz5dkpdfl6e0yi6e This map explores the devastating impact of European diseases on Native American populations during the colonial period (1600s-1700s). These epidemics were often interpreted by colonists as divine intervention or "God's Divine Hand" clearing the way for settlement, while they represented catastrophic population collapse for indigenous peoples. en-us 2025-09-16 14:14:42 UTC 2025-09-17 14:55:58 UTC hello@padlet.com srua7 https://padlet.com/greaterlowelltechnical/tz5dkpdfl6e0yi6e/wish/3587791255 2025-09-16 14:14:42 UTC https://padlet.com/greaterlowelltechnical/tz5dkpdfl6e0yi6e/wish/3587791255 srua7 https://padlet.com/greaterlowelltechnical/tz5dkpdfl6e0yi6e/wish/3587791261 2025-09-16 14:14:43 UTC https://padlet.com/greaterlowelltechnical/tz5dkpdfl6e0yi6e/wish/3587791261 srua7 https://padlet.com/greaterlowelltechnical/tz5dkpdfl6e0yi6e/wish/3587791264 2025-09-16 14:14:43 UTC https://padlet.com/greaterlowelltechnical/tz5dkpdfl6e0yi6e/wish/3587791264 srua7 https://padlet.com/greaterlowelltechnical/tz5dkpdfl6e0yi6e/wish/3587791270 2025-09-16 14:14:43 UTC https://padlet.com/greaterlowelltechnical/tz5dkpdfl6e0yi6e/wish/3587791270 srua7 https://padlet.com/greaterlowelltechnical/tz5dkpdfl6e0yi6e/wish/3587791284 2025-09-16 14:14:43 UTC https://padlet.com/greaterlowelltechnical/tz5dkpdfl6e0yi6e/wish/3587791284 srua7 https://padlet.com/greaterlowelltechnical/tz5dkpdfl6e0yi6e/wish/3587791301 2025-09-16 14:14:43 UTC https://padlet.com/greaterlowelltechnical/tz5dkpdfl6e0yi6e/wish/3587791301 srua7 https://padlet.com/greaterlowelltechnical/tz5dkpdfl6e0yi6e/wish/3587791309 2025-09-16 14:14:43 UTC https://padlet.com/greaterlowelltechnical/tz5dkpdfl6e0yi6e/wish/3587791309 srua7 https://padlet.com/greaterlowelltechnical/tz5dkpdfl6e0yi6e/wish/3587791311 2025-09-16 14:14:43 UTC https://padlet.com/greaterlowelltechnical/tz5dkpdfl6e0yi6e/wish/3587791311 srua7 https://padlet.com/greaterlowelltechnical/tz5dkpdfl6e0yi6e/wish/3587791314 2025-09-16 14:14:43 UTC https://padlet.com/greaterlowelltechnical/tz5dkpdfl6e0yi6e/wish/3587791314 srua7 https://padlet.com/greaterlowelltechnical/tz5dkpdfl6e0yi6e/wish/3587806408 “Strangely they have decreased by the Hand of God… and it hath generally been observed that where the English come to settle, a Divine Hand makes way for them.”— Daniel Denton, (c. 1626 – 1703) Early American colonist. Led an expedition into the interior of northern New Jersey. He was was also a Presbyterian minister from England

]]> 2025-09-16 14:21:31 UTC https://padlet.com/greaterlowelltechnical/tz5dkpdfl6e0yi6e/wish/3587806408 srua7 https://padlet.com/greaterlowelltechnical/tz5dkpdfl6e0yi6e/wish/3587811325 "Lastly and chiefly the way to prosper and achieve good success is to make yourselves all of one mind for the good of your country and your own, and to serve and fear God the giver of all goodness, for every plantation which our father hath not planted shall be rooted out." The charter of the Virginia Company of London, to the Captains and Company of Jamestown, ca. 1607 The Virginia Company was an English trading company chartered by King James I on 10 April 1606 with the objective of colonizing the eastern coast of America

]]> 2025-09-16 14:23:43 UTC https://padlet.com/greaterlowelltechnical/tz5dkpdfl6e0yi6e/wish/3587811325 srua7 https://padlet.com/greaterlowelltechnical/tz5dkpdfl6e0yi6e/wish/3587827547 “Within these late years, there hath, by God’s visitation, reigned a wonderful plague, the utter destruction, devastation, and depopulation of that whole territory, so as there is not left any that do claim or challenge any kind of interest therein. We, in our judgment, are persuaded and satisfied, that the appointed time is come in which Almighty God, in his great goodness and bounty towards us, and our people, hath thought fit and determined, that those large and goodly territories, deserted as it were by their natural inhabitants, should be possessed and enjoyed by such of our subjects.” ––King James I of Scotland (1567-1625) & England (1603-1625)

]]> 2025-09-16 14:31:45 UTC https://padlet.com/greaterlowelltechnical/tz5dkpdfl6e0yi6e/wish/3587827547 srua7 https://padlet.com/greaterlowelltechnical/tz5dkpdfl6e0yi6e/wish/3587830076 And by this means there is as yet but a small number of Salvages in New England, to that which hath been in former time, and the place is made so much the more fit for the English Nation to inhabit in, and erect in it Temples to the glory of God. “—Thomas Morton 20 March 1564 – 20 September 1659, among the founders of the settlement at Mount Wollaston (present day Quincy, MA). He was an English churchman, bishop of several dioceses. Well-connected and in favor with King James I

]]> 2025-09-16 14:32:59 UTC https://padlet.com/greaterlowelltechnical/tz5dkpdfl6e0yi6e/wish/3587830076 srua7 https://padlet.com/greaterlowelltechnical/tz5dkpdfl6e0yi6e/wish/3587832917 “For the natives, they are near all dead of the smallpox, so the Lord hath cleared our title to what we possess.” –John Winthrop, Massachusetts governor, writing in 1634 from Boston. He was a Puritan lawyer who led a large group of British colonists to the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the second settlement in the colony.

]]> 2025-09-16 14:34:25 UTC https://padlet.com/greaterlowelltechnical/tz5dkpdfl6e0yi6e/wish/3587832917 srua7 https://padlet.com/greaterlowelltechnical/tz5dkpdfl6e0yi6e/wish/3587845654 “That the Heathen People amongst whom we live, and whose Land the Lord God of our Fathers hath given to us for a rightful Possession, have at sundry times been plotting mischievous devices against that part of the English Israel which is seated in these goings down of the Sun, no man that is an Inhabitant of any considerable standing, can be ignorant.”–Increase Mather (1639-1723), A Brief History of the War With the Indians in New England. Mather was a New England Puritan clergyman who served as the sixth president of Harvard College. He wrote about the existence of witchcraft and later participated in the Salem Witch Trials.

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