Background
Hubbard was born in England, circa 1621. He was the fourth child of William Hubbard of Ipswich, Suffolk, and came with his father to New England in 1635. The family settled the same year at Ipswich, Massachussets.
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A narrative of the troubles with the Indians in New-England: from the first planting thereof in the year 1607 to this present year 1677, but chiefly ... : to which is added a discourse about the...
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Title: A narrative of the troubles with the Indians in New-England : from the first planting thereof in the year 1607 to this present year 1677, but chiefly of the late troubles in the two last years 1675 and 1676 : to which is added a discourse about the warre with the Pequods in the year 1637. Author: William Hubbard Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more. Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more. Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ SourceLibrary: Huntington Library DocumentID: SABCP04880200 CollectionID: CTRG04-B714 PublicationDate: 16770101 SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America Notes: "A narrative of the troubles with the Indians in New-England from Pascataqua to Pemmaquid" (caption title) has separate pagination and register. A later ed. printed at London in the same year and licensed "June 27, 1677" under title: The present state of New-England. In this cutting of the map the White Mountains are labeled as "The White Hills". In the London edition they are labeled "The Wine Hills." Collation: 14, 132, 7, 6-11, 88 p., 1 fold. leaf of plates : map (fold.)
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The History of the Indian Wars in New England: From the First Settlement to the Termination of the War With King Philip in 1677 (Classic Reprint)
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A General History of New England: From the Discovery to 1680 (Classic Reprint)
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William Hubbard
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Young William entered Harvard College, graduating with the first class in 1642. While at Harvard he studied medicine among other things.
Career
He seems to have reached the mature age of thirty-five before determining to become a minister. He entered the ministry by joining Thomas Cobbet as colleague at Ipswich in 1656 and two years later was ordained. He was among the fifteen elders who protested in 1671 against the censure passed by the General Court on "the generality of the ministry" for innovation and apostasy in connection with the founding of the third church at Boston. He attended the session of ministers called by the General Court in the summer of 1685 to give advice concerning surrender of the charter. Hubbard appears to have acted as spokesman to deliver their advice, though some of the ministers denied that the meeting had taken the stand he reported, or had asked him to report. He was among the ringleaders in the Ipswich opposition to the collection of taxes by the Andros government in 1687. He was present at a special caucus of selectmen and leading citizens, among them two ministers, held at the home of John Appleton the night before the famous town meeting, but he escaped punishment.
He served as substitute for the president of Harvard College in July 1684, on the illness of President John Rogers, his wife's grandfather; and in 1688 when the rector, Increase Mather, departed for England to seek redress for New England at the court of King James, Hubbard temporarily filled his place. When Sir William Phips, who had been knighted in 1687 for discovering a sunken treasure vessel, arrived at Boston, Hubbard referred to him in the Commencement oration as "Jason fetching the Golden Fleece. " He was apparently not in sympathy with the witchcraft program of the 1690's, for he helped one poor woman to escape by certifying to her good character, and he, with several other ministers of Essex, petitioned the General Court in July 1703 in behalf of sufferers still under legal disabilities.
In 1677 he published his Narrative of the Troubles with the Indians in New-England, which appeared in England the same year under the title The Present State of New-England. With John Higginson he wrote A Testimony, to the Order of the Gospel, in the Churches of New-England (1701). His most pretentious piece of work, however, was A General History of New England from the Discovery to MDCLXXX, the purpose of which was "to render a just account of the proceedings of that people, together with the merciful providence of the Almighty towards them. " The General Court gave him support in this undertaking by voting him £50 in 1682 in order that a record of God's care over the people of New England might be preserved for posterity. Much of his material was borrowed from Morton's Memorial and Winthrop's Journal. The work was not published until 1815, when it appeared in the Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society (2 ser. , vols. V, VI), but for more than a century before it had been the source of most of the information concerning early New England, and it had furnished Cotton Mather and Thomas Prince with much of the material for their histories.
In August 1702 he resigned from his pastorate, on May 6, 1703, he formally relinquished his pulpit and his people gave him £60. He died in the following year.
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A General History of New England: From the Discovery to 1680 (Classic Reprint)
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A narrative of the troubles with the Indians in New-England: from the first planting thereof in the year 1607 to this present year 1677, but chiefly ... : to which is added a discourse about the...
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The History of the Indian Wars in New England: From the First Settlement to the Termination of the War With King Philip in 1677 (Classic Reprint)
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A General History of New England: From the Discovery to 1680 (Classic Reprint)
Connections
About 1646 he married Margaret Rogers, the daughter of Nathaniel Rogers, and in 1653 was made a freeman. Hubbard left three children by his first wife. In his old age, after her death, he shocked his parishioners by marrying his housekeeper, Mary, the widow of Samuel Pearce, of whom they disapproved because they thought her unfit for the exalted position of minister's wife.
