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A09810	A relation or iournall of the beginning and proceedings of the English plantation setled at Plimoth in New England, by certaine English aduenturers both merchants and others With their difficult passage, their safe ariuall, their ioyfull building of, and comfortable planting themselues in the now well defended towne of New Plimoth. As also a relation of foure seuerall discoueries since made by some of the same English planters there resident. I. In a iourney to Puckanokick ... II. In a voyage made by ten of them to the kingdome of Nawset ... III. In their iourney to the kingdome of Namaschet ... IIII. Their voyage to the Massachusets, and their entertainment there. With an answer to all such obiections as are in any way made against the lawfulnesse of English plantations in those parts.	Bradford, William, 1588-1657.; Morton, George, d. 1624.; Winslow, Edward, 1595-1655. aut; Cushman, Robert, 1579?-1625. aut	1622 (1622)	STC 20074; ESTC S110454	57,053	87

in this brooke much good fish in their seasons on the further side of the river also much Corne ground cleared in one field is a great hill on which wee poynt to make a plat-forme and plant our Ordinance which will command all round about from thence we may see into the Bay and farre into the Sea and we may see thence Cape Cod our greatest labour will be fetching of our wood which is halfe a quarter of an English myle but there is enough so farre off what people inhabite here we yet know not for as yet we haue seene none so there we made our Randevous and a place for some of our people about twentie resolving in the morning to come all ashore and to build houses but the next morning being Thursday the 21. of December it was stormie and wett that we could not goe ashore and those that remained there all night could doe nothing but were wet not having dai-light enough to make them a sufficient court of gard to keepe them dry All that night it blew and rayned extreamely it was so tempestuous that the Shallop could not goe on land so soone as was meet for they had no victuals on land About ●● a Clocke the Shallop went off with much adoe with provision but could not returne it blew so strong and was such foule weather that we were forced to let fall our Anchor and ride with three Anchors an head Friday the 22. the storme still continued that we could not get a-land nor they come to vs aboord this morning Good wife Alderton was delivered of a sonne but dead borne Saturday the 23. so many of vs as could went on shore felled and carried tymber to provide themselues stuffe for building Sunday the 24. our people on shore heard a cry of some Savages as they thought which caused an Alarm and to stand on their gard expecting an assault but all was quiet Munday the 25. day we went on shore some to fell tymber some to saw some to ri●e and some to carry so no man rested all that day but towards night some as they were at worke heard a noyse of some Indians which caused vs all to goe to our Muskets but we heard no further so we came aboord againe and left some twentie to keepe the court of gard that night we had a sore storme of winde and rayne Munday the 25. being Christmas day we began to drinke water aboord but at night the Master caused vs to haue some Beere and so on boord we had diverse times now and then some Beere but on shore none at all Tuesday the 26. it was foule weather that we could not goe ashore Wednesday the 27. we went to worke againe Thursday the 28. of December so many as could went to worke on the hill where we purposed to build our platforme for our Ordinance and which doth command all the plaine and the B●y and from whence we may see farre into the sea and might he easier impayled having two rowes of houses and a faire streete So in the afternoone we went to measure out the grounds and first we tooke notice how many Families they were willing all single men that had no wiues to ioyne with some Familie as they thought fit that so we might build fewer houses which was done and we reduced them to 19. Families to greater Families we allotted larger plots to every person halfe a pole in breadth and three in length and so Lots were cast where euery man should lie which was done and staked out we thought this proportion was large enough at the first for houses and gardens to impale them round considering the weaknes of our people many of them growing ill with coldes for our former Discoveries in frost and stormes and the wading at Cape Cod had brought much weakenes amongst vs which increased so every day more and more and after was the cause of many of their deaths Fryday and Saturday we fitted our selues for our labour but our people on shore were much troubled and discouraged with rayne and wett that day being very stormie and cold we saw great smokes of fire made by the Indians about six or seaven myles from vs as we coniectured Munday the first of Ianuary we went betimes to worke we were much hundred in lying so farre off from the Land and faine to goe as the tyde served that we lost much time for our Ship drew so much water that she lay a myle and almost a halfe off though a ship of seaventie or eightie tun as high water may come to the shore Wednesday the third of Ianuary some of our people being abroad to get and gather thatch they saw great fires of the Indians and were at then Corne fields yet saw none of the Savages nor had seene any of them since wee came to th●s Bay Thursday the fourth of Ianuary Captaine Miles Standish with foure or fiue more went to see if they could meet with any of the Savages in that place where the fires were made they went to some of their houses but not lately inhabited yet could they not meete with any as they came home they shot at an Eagle and killed her which was excellent meat It was hardly to be discerned from Mutton Fryday the fifth of Ianuary one of the Saylers found aliue vpon the shore an Hering which the Master had to his supper which put vs in hope of fish but as yet we had got but 〈◊〉 Cod we wanted small hookes Saturday the sixt of Ianuary Master Marten was very sicke and to our iudgement no hope of life so Master Carver was sent for to come abourd to speake with him about his accompts who came the next morning Munday the eight day of Ianuary was a very fayre day and we went betimes to worke master Iones sent the Shallop as he had formerly done to see where fish could be got they had a great storme at Sea and were in some danger at night they returned with three great Seales and an excellent good Cod which did assure vs that we should haue plentie of fish shortly This day Francis Billington having the weeke before seene from the top of a tree on an hie hill a great sea as he thought went with one of the Masters mates to see it they went three myles and then came to a great water devided into two great Lakes the bigger of them fiue or sixe myles in circuit and in it an I le of a Cable length square the other three miles in compasse in their estimation they are fine fresh water full of fish and foule a brooke issues from it it will be an excellent helpe for vs in time They found seaven or eight Indian houses but not lately inhabited when they saw the houses they were in some feare for they were but two persons and one peece Tuesday the 9. Ianuary was a reasonable faire day and wee went to labour that day in the building of our Towne in

as big as Oysters The latter we gaue to the sixe Savages that accompanied vs keeping the Meale for our selues when we dranke we eate each a spoonefull of it with a Pipe of Tobacco in stead of other victuals and of this also we could not but giue them so long as it lasted Fiue myles they led vs to a house out of the way in hope of victualls but we found no body there and so were but worse able to returne home That night we reached to the wire where we lay before but the Namascheusks were returned so that we had no hope of any thing there One of the Savages had shot a Shad in the water and a small Squirrill as big as a Rat called a Neuxis the one halfe of either he gaue vs and after went to the wire to fish From hence we wrote to Plimouth and sent Tokamahamon before to Namasket willing him from thence to send another that he might meet vs with food at Namasket Two men now onely remained with vs and it pleased God to giue them good store of fish so that we were well refreshed After supper we went to rest and they to fishing againe more they gat and fell to eating a fresh and retayned sufficient readie rost for all our break-fasts About two a Clocke in the morning arose a great storme of wind raine lightning and thunder in such violent manner that we could not keepe in our fire and had the Savages not rosted fish when we were asleepe we had set forward fasting for the raine still continued with great violence even the whole day thorow till wee came within two myles of home Being wett and weary at length we came to Namaschet there we refreshed our selues giuing gifts to all such as had shewed vs any kindnesse Amongst others one of the sixe that came with vs from Packanokik having before this on the way vnkindly forsaken vs marvayled we gaue him nothing and told vs what he had done for vs we also told him of some discurtesies he offered vs whereby he deserved nothing yet we gaue him a small trifle wherevpon he offered vs Tobacco but the house being full of people we told them hee stole some by the way and if it were of that we would not take it For we would not receiue that which was stolne vpon any termes if we did our God would be angry with vs and destroy vs. This abashed him and gaue the rest great content but at our departure he would needs carry him on his backe thorow a River whom he had formerly in some sort abused Faine they would haue had vs to lodge there all night and wondered we would set forth againe in such Weather but GOD be praysed wee came safe home that night though wett weary and surbated A VOYAGE MADE BY TEN of our Men to the Kingdome of NAVSET to seeke a Boy that had lost himselfe in the WOODS With such Accidents as befell vs in that VOYAGE THe 11th of Iune we set forth the weather being very faire but ere we had bin long at Sea there arose a storme of wind and raine with much lightning and thunder in so much that a spout arose not far from vs but God be praysed it dured not long and we put in that night for Harbour at a place called Cummaquid where wee had some hope to finde the Boy Two Savages were in the Boat with vs the one was Tisquantum our Interpreter the other Tokamahamon a speciall friend It being night before we came in we Anchored in the middest of the Bay where we were drie at a low water In the morning we espied Savages seeking Lobsters and sent our two Interpreters to speake with them the channell being betweene them where they told them what we were and for what we were come willing them not at all to feare vs for we would not hurt them Their answere was that the Boy was well but he was at Nauset yet since wee were there they desired vs to come ashore eate with them which as soone as our Boat floated we did and went sixe ashore having foure pledges for them in the Boate. They brought vs to their Sachim or Gouernour whom they call Iyanough a man not exceeding twentie-six yeeres of age but very personable gentle courteous and fayre conditioned indeed not like a Savage saue for his attyre his entertainement was answerable to his parts and his cheare plentifull and various One thing was very grieuous vnto vs at this place There was an old woman whom we iudged to be no lesse then an hundred yeeres old which came to see vs because shee neuer saw English yet could not behold vs without breaking forth into great passion weeping and crying excessiuely We demaunding the reason of it they told vs she had three sons who when master Hunt was in these parts went aboord his Ship to trade with him and he carried them Captiues into Spaine for Tisquantum at that time was carried away also by which meanes shee was depriued of the comfort of her children in her old age We told them we were sorry that any English man should giue them that offence that Hunt was a bad man and that all the English that heard of it condemned him for the same but for vs we would not offer them any such iniury though it would gaine vs all the skins in the Countrey So we gaue her some small trifles which somewhat appeased her After dinner we tooke Boat for Nauset Iyanough and two of his men accompanying vs. Ere we came to Nauset the day and tyde were almost spent in so much as we could not goe in with our Shallop but the Sachim or Governour of Comm●quid went a shore and his men with him we also sent Tisquantum to tell Aspinet the Sachim of Nauset wherefore we came The Sauages here came very thicke amongst vs and were earnest with vs to bring in our Boate. But we neither well could nor yet desired to doe it because we had lest cause to trust them being they onely had formerly made an Assault vpon vs in the same place in time of our Winter Discouery for Habitation And indeed it was no maruayle they did so for howsoeuer through snow or otherwise wee saw no houses yet wee were in the middest of them When our boat was a ground they came very thicke but wee stood therein vpon our guard not suffering any to enter except two the one being of Maramoick and one of those whose Corne we had formerly found we promised him restitution desired him either to come to Patuxet for satisfaction or else we would bring them so much corne againe hee promised to come wee vsed him very kindely for the present Some few skins we gate there but not many After Sun-set Aspinet came with a great traine brought the boy with him one bearing him through the water hee had not lesse then an hundred with him the halfe whereof came to the Shallop

skill facultie c. which God hath giuen them for the seruice of others and his owne glory But not to passe the bounds of modestie so far as to name any though I co●fesse I know many who sit here still with their talent in a napkin hauing notable endowments both of body and minde and might doe great good if they were in some places which here doe none nor can doe none and yet through fleshly feare nicenesse straitnesse of heart c. sit still and looke on and will not hazard a dram of health nor a day of pleasure nor an houre of rest to further the knowledge and saluation of the sons of Adam in that New world where a drop of the knowledge of Christ is most precious which is here not set by Now what shall we say to such a profession of Christ to which is ioyned no more deniall of a mans selfe But some will say what right haue I to goe liue in the heathens countrie Letting passe the ancient discouerie● contracts and agreements which our English men haue long since made in those parts together with the acknowledgement of the histories and Chronicles of other nations who professe the land of America from the Cape De Florida vnto the Bay of Canad● which is South and North 300. leagues and vpwards and East and West further then yet hath beene discouered is proper to the King of England yet letting that passe lest I he thought to meddle further then it concerns me or further then I haue discerning I will mention such things as are within my reach knowledge sight and practice since I haue trauailed in these affaires And first seeing we daily pray for the conuersion of the heathens we must consider whether there be not some ordinary meanes and course for vs to take to conuert them or whether praier for them be only referred to Gods extraordinarie worke from heauen Now it seemeth vnto me that we ought also to endeuour and vse the meanes to conuert them and the meanes cannot be vsed vnlesse we goe to them or they come to vs to vs they cannot come our land is full to them we may goe their land is emptie This then is a sufficient reason to proue our going thither to liue lawfull their land is spatious and void there are few and doe but run ouer the grasse as doe also the Foxes and wilde beasts they are not industrious neither haue are science skill or facultie to vse either the land or the commodities of it but all spoiles rots and is marred for want of manuring gathering ordering c. As the ancient Patriarkes therefore remoued from straiter places into more roomthy where the Land lay idle and waste and none vsed it though there dwelt inhabitants by them as Gen. 13.6.11.12 and 34.21 and 41.20 so is it lawfull now to take a land which none vseth and make vse of it And as it is a common land or vnused vndressed countrey so we haue it by common consent composition and agreement which agreement is double First the Imperial Gouernor 〈◊〉 whose circuits in likelihood are larger then England and Scotland hath acknowledged the Kings Maiestie of England to be his Master and Commander and that once in 〈…〉 and in writing vnder his hand to Captaine Standish both he and many other Kings which are vnder him as Pamet Nauset Cammaquid Narrowhiggonset Namaschet c. with diuers others that dwell about the baies of Patuxet and Massachuset neither hath this beene accomplished by threats and blowes or shaking of sword and sound of trumpet for as our facultie that way is small and our strength lesse so our warring with them is after another manner namely by friendly vsage loue peace honest and iust cariages good counsell c. that so we and they may not only liue in peace in that land and they yeeld subiection to an earthly Prince but that as voluntaries they may be perswaded at length to embrace the Prince of peace Christ Iesus and rest in peace with him for euer Secondly this composition is also more particular and applicatorie as touching our selues there inhabiting the Emperour by aioynt consent hath promised and appointed vs to liue at peace where we will in all his dominions taking what place we will and as much land as we will and bringing as many people as we will and that for these two causes First because we are the seruants of Iames King of England whose the land as he confesseth is 2. because he hath found vs iust honest kinde and peaceable and so loues our company yea and that in these things there is no dissimulation on his part nor feare of breach except our securitie ingender in them some vnthought of trecherie or our vnciuilitie prouoke them to anger is most plaine in other Relations which shew that the things they did were more out of loue then out of feare It being then first a vast and emptie Chaos Secondly acknowledged the right of our Soueraigne King Thirdly by a peaceable composition in part possessed of diuers of his louing subiects I see not who can doubt or call in question the lawfulnesse of inhabiting or dwelling there but that it may be as lawfull for such as are not tied vpon some speciall occasion here to line there as well as here yea and as the enterprise is weightie and difficult so the honour is more worthy to plant a rude wildernesse to enlarge the honour and fame of our dread Soueraigne but chiefly to displaie the efficacie power of the Gospell both in zealous preaching professing and wise walking vnder it before the faces of these poore blinde Infidels As for such as obiect the tediousnesse of the voyage thither the danger of Pirats robberie of the sauages trecherie c. these are but Lyons in the way and it were well for such men if they were in heauen for who can shew them a place in this world where iniquitie shall not compasse them at the heeles and where they shall haue a day without griefe or a lease of life for a moment and who can tell but God what dangers may lie at our doores euen in our natiue countrie or what plots may be abroad or when God will cause our sunne to goe downe at noone daie● and in the midst of our peace and securitie lay vpon vs some lasting s●ourge for our so long neglect and contempt of his most glorious Gospell But we haue here great peace plentie of the Gospell and many sweet delights and varietie of comforts True indeed and farre be it from vs to denie and diminish the least of these mercies but haue we rendered vnto God thankfull obedience for this long peace whilst other peoples haue beene at wars haue we not rather murmured repined and fallen at iars amongst our selues whilst our peace hath lasted with forraigne power was there euer more suits in law