Article: Requiem for a genocide.(decline of native populations)

IN HIS Brief Description of New York (London, 1670), Daniel Denton says, in the quaint English of a son of a Presbyterian manse on 17th-century Long Island,

 
   To say something of the Indians, there is 
   now but few upon the Island, and those few 
   no ways hurtful but rather serviceable to the 
   English, and it is to be admired, how strangely 
   they have decreased by the Hand of God, 
   since the English first settling of those parts; 
   for since my time [Denton was born in 
   1644], where there were six towns, they are 
   reduced to two small villages, and it hath 
   generally been observed, that where the 
   English come to settle, a Divine Hand makes 
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