Thomas Thorowgood argues that Native Americans are descendants of Israelites.
- Type
- Book
- Source
- Thomas Thorowgood Non-LDS
- Hearsay
- Direct
- Reference
Thomas Thorowgood, Jewes in America, or, Probabilities that the Americans are of That Race (London: William Hunt, 1660), 3, 6, 14
- Scribe/Publisher
- William Hunt
- People
- Thomas Thorowgood
- Audience
- Reading Public
- Transcription
The Indians doe themselves relate things of their Ancestors, suteable to what we read of the Jewes in the Bible, and elsewhere, which they also mentioned to the Spaniards at their first accesse thither. . . .
The rites, fashions, ceremonies, and opinions of the Americans are in many things agreeale to the custome of the Jewes, not onely prophane and common usages, but such as be called solemn and sacred.
. . .
The Americans words and manners of speech, bee in many things consonant to those of the Jewes. . . .
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