The Voyage of Pierre Angibaut, known as ChampdoreÌ, captain in the Marine of New France, made to the coast of Maine, 1608. (Reprinted from the New-England Historical and Genealogical Register.).
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Notes on the History of Fort George during the colonial and revolutionary periods, with contemporaneous documents, and an appendix. With a plan and a map.
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The Pilgrim of Old France: or, the Huguenots on the Hudson, 1613-14. A poem. To which is added the Stormy Petrel and other peices sic of verse.
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A Narrative of Events at Lake George, from the early colonial times to the close of the Revolution.
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Hiawatha: The Story of the Iroquois Sage, in Prose and Verse
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Verrazano the Explorer: being a vindication of his letter and voyage, with an examination of the map of Hieronimo da Verrazano. And a dissertation ... is prefixed a bibliography of the subject.
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De costa, Benjamin Franklin; Ulpius;
1880.
82 p. ; 4º.
10026.k.5.
Cabo de Arenas, or the Place of Sandy Hook in the old cartology, as indicated in the map of Alonzo Chaves ... Reprinted from the New England Historical and Genealogical Register.
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Benjamin Franklin De Costa was an American clergyman and writer, highly interested in history, he travelled extensively. His historical publications relate chiefly to early American discovery and exploration, including cartology. He was rector of the Church of St. John the Evangelist in New York City as well.
Background
Benjamin Franklin De Costa was born on July 10, 1831 in Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States. The surname was brought to Boston from England in 1699 by Isaac De Costa, a Huguenot of Portuguese ancestry who had been driven from France by the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. Beginning with Isaac, the Massachusetts line found wives in New England families of English descent. Ezekiel Carver De Costa, fourth generation from Isaac, married Elizabeth Jackson, and Benjamin Franklin De Costa was the fifth of their six children.
Education
In 1856 he graduated from the Biblical Institute at Concord, New Hampshire.
Career
In 1857 he entered the Episcopal ministry and served for three years as rector in Massachusetts, one year in North Adams, and two years in Newton Lower Falls.
From 1861 to 1863 he was chaplain of Massachusetts troops in the Civil War, and special correspondent of the Charlestown Advertiser. He also wrote some letters for other newspapers.
Leaving the army, he settled in New York and engaged in editorial and historical work. The Christian Times (New York) carried his name as editor from December 22, 1864, to March 29, 1866, and he seems to have served for about nine months afterward its continuator, the Episcopalian (New York and Philadelphia).
Fruits of historical research began to appear in 1864, and eventually reached about fifty titles. He traveled with his wife extensively (especially after 1873), lingering with special interest in places where he might collect historical material and crossing the ocean twenty-two times.
His historical publications relate chiefly to early American discovery and exploration, including cartology, and most of them are brief, ranging from eight to twenty-five pages. A considerable number consist of documents with editorial introductions and notes. His Pre-Columbian Discovery of America by the Northmen (1868, revised in 1890 and again in 1901) presented in this way the case for the Northmen and brought together the largest collection of sagas available in English before the appearance of Reeves’s Finding of Wineland the Good. A better piece of editing, however, is found in his edition of Bishop William White’s Memoirs of the Protestant Episcopal Church (1880). Several of his works show an amiable weakness for rescuing characters and events from the neglect or disparagement of historians.
The service performed for the Northmen was extended to Verrazano, Champdore, John Walker, and others, and to Welsh and Irish discoverers of America.
In 1881 De Costa became rector of the Church of St. John the Evangelist in New York City. The duties of his office were arduous and were made more so by his activity in social-uplift movements. He organized the first American branch of the White Cross and wrote a history of the movement.
He was one of the organizers, and for years secretary, of the Church Temperance Society.
He still, however, found time for historical work; in 1881 he went as a delegate to the International Congress of Americanists at Madrid; he was for a time (1882 - 83) editor of the Magazine of American History; he contributed to Justin Winsor’s Narrative and Critical History of America two chapters, including the critical essays on the sources—the chapter on “Norumbega and its English Explorers” in vol. Ill (1885), and the chapter on “Jacques Cartier and his Successors” in vol. IV (1885).
In 1899 he became involved in the controversy over the ordination of Prof. A. Briggs, late of Union Theological Seminary, as a priest in the Episcopal Church. De Costa, taking strong ground against the higher criticism of the Bible, led the opposition. Briggs was ordained in May. In August De Costa offered his resignation as rector. In October he withdrew from the Episcopal ministry and was deposed by Bishop Potter. The death of his wife in 1901 invited a further step; he prepared for the priesthood, and in November 1903 was ordained in Italy by the Bishop of Fiesole.
Achievements
De Costa organized the first American branch of the White Cross. He was one of the charter members and first president of a church association for the advancement of labor.
