But it pleased God to visit us then with death daily, and with so… — William Bradford · Skopia

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But it pleased God to visit us then with death daily, and with so general a disease that the living were scarce able to bury the dead.

William Bradford

Of Plymouth Plantation · 1621

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Bradford, William. Of Plymouth Plantation: 1620-1647. Random House, 1981, ch. 12.

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Bradford, William. Letter to Thomas Weston. 1621.

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