Samuel Clarke (minister)

Samuel Clarke (10 October 1599 – 25 December 1683) was an English Nonconformist clergyman and significant Puritan biographer.

Quotes

Virginia having no Winter to speak of, but extream hot Summers, hath dried up much English blood; and by the pestiferous Diseases, hath swept away many lusty persons, changing their complexions, not into swarthiness, but into Paleness; which comes not from any want of food, the Soil being fertile, and pleasant, and they having plenty of Corn, and Cattel, but rather from the Climate, which indeed is found to be too Hot for our English Constitutions, which New England is not.
- A True and Faithful Account of the Four Chiefest Plantations of the English in America (1670), "New-England Described", p. 29