num_pages: 95
description: Jonathan Dickinson's Journal, or God's Protecting Providence. Being the Narrative of a Journey from Port Royal in Jamaica to Philadelphia August 23, 1696 to April 1, 1697. A true story of shipwreck and torture on the Florida Coast.In the fall of 1696 the barkentine Reformation was wrecked off Jupiter Island on the Florida Coast. Jonathan Dickinson, a young Quaker merchant, with his wife and infant son, and a party of about twenty managed to reach the mainland, only to fall into the hands of a band of hostile Indians. Held captive for several weeks, Dickinson observed at first hand and later recorded in his journal a fascinating account of Indian life, rituals, and customs.First published by the Quakers in 1699, this American epic became so popular that it was reprinted 16 times during the next 170 years. Charles McLean Andrews and his wife, Evangeline Walker Andrews, undertook a thorough investigation into the background and circumstances of the whole episode and their thoroughly annotated edition appeared in 1945. The present [1961] edition contains the original text and a new introduction by Leonard W. Labaree which presents in condensed form the most important material in the Andrews' edition and a series of maps showing the entire route followed by the survivors.
language: English
title: Gods Protecting Providence
titlecomplete: Gods Protecting Providence
genres: Nonfiction, History, Biography
ratings_count: 69
places: Florida
publisher: Dissertations-G