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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

two rowes of houses for more safety we devided by lott the plot of ground whereon to build our Towne After the proportion formerly allotted wee agreed that every man should build his owne house thinking by that course men would make more hast then working in common the common house in which for the first we made our Rendevous being neere finished wanted onely couering it being about 20. foote square some should make morter and some gather thatch so that in foure dayes halfe of it was thatched frost and foule weather hindred vs much this time of the yeare seldome could wee worke halfe the weeke Thursday the eleuenth William Bradford being at worke for it was a faire day was vehemently taken with a griefe and paine and so shot to his huckle-bone It was doubted that he would haue instantly dyed hee got colde in the former discoveries especially the last and felt some paine in his anckles by times but he grew a little better towards night and in time through Gods mercie in the vse of meanes recovered Friday the 12. we went to worke but about noone it began to raine that it forced vs to giue over worke This day two of our people put vs in great sorrow and care there was 4. sent to gather and cut thatch in the morning and two of them Iohn Goodman and Peter Browne having cut thatch all the fore noone went to a further place and willed the other two to binde vp that which was cut and to follow them so they did being about a myle and an halfe from our Plantation but when the two came after they could not finde them nor heare any thing of them at all though they hallowed and shouted as loud as they could so they returned to the Company and told them of it whereupon Master Leaver three or foure more went to seeke them but could heare nothing of them so they returning sent more but that night they could heare nothing at all of them the next day they armed 10. or 12. men out verily thinking the Indians had surprised them they went seeking 7. or 8 myles but could neither see nor heare any thing at all so they returned with much discomfort to vs all These two that were missed at dinner time tooke their mea●e in their hands and would goe walke and refresh themselues so going a litle off they finde a lake of water and having a great Mastiffe bitch with them and a Spannell by the water side they found a great Deere the Dogs chased him and they followed so farre as they lost themselues and could not finde the● way backe they wandred all that after noone being wett and at night it did freeze and snow they were slenderly apparelled and had no weapons but each one his Cicle nor any victuals they ranged vp and downe and could finde none of the Salvages habitation● when it drew to night they were much perplexed for they could finde neither harbour nor meate but in frost and snow were forced to make the earth their bed and the Element their covering and another thing did very much terrifie them they heard as they thought two Lyons roaring exceedingly for a long time together and a third that they thought was very nere them so not knowing what to do they resolved to climbe vp into a tree as their safest refuge though that would prone an intollerable colde lodging so they stoode at the trees roote that when the Lyons came they might take their opportunitie of climbing vp the bitch they were faine to hold by the necke for shee would haue beene gone to the Lyon but it pleased God so to dispose that the wilde Beastes came not so they walked vp and downe vnder the Tree all night it was an extreame colde night so soone as it was light they trauailed againe passing by many lakes and brookes and woods and in one place where the Salvages had burnt the space of 5. myles in length which is a fine Champion Countrey and even In the after-noone it pleased God from an high Hill they discovered the two Iles in the Bay and so that night got to the Plantation being ready to faint with travaile and want of victuals and almost famis●●ed with colde Iohn Goodman was faine to haue his shooes cut off his feete they were so swelled with colde and it was a long while after ere he was able to goe those on the shore were much comforted at their returne but they on ship-boord were grieved as deeming them lost but the next day being the 14. of Ianuary in the morning about sixe of the clocke the winde being very great they on ship-boord spied their great new R●ndevous on fire which was to them a new discomfort fearing because of the supposed losse of the men that the Salvages had fiered them neither could they presently goe to them for want of water but after 3. quarters of an houre they went as they had purposed the day before to keepe the Sabboth on shore because now there was the greater number of people At their landing they heard good tidings of the returne of the 2. men and that the house was fiered occasionally by a sparke that flew into the thatch which instantly burnt it all vp but the roofe stood and little hurt the most losse was Maister Carvers and William Bradfords who then lay sicke in bed and if they had not risen with good speede had beene blowne vp with powder but through Gods mercy they had no harme the house was as full of beds as they could lie one by another and their Muskets charged but blessed be God there was no harme done Munday the 15. day it rayned much all day that they on ship-boord could not goe on shore nor they on shore doe any labour but were all wet Tuesday wednesday thursday were very faire Sun-shinie dayes as if it had beene in Aprill and our people so many as were in health ought chearefully The 19. day we resolved to make a Shed to put our common provision in of which some were alreadie set on shore but at noone it rayned that we could not worke This day in the evening Iohn Goodman went abroad to vse his lame feete that were pittifully ill with the cold he had got having a little Spannell with him a little way from the Plantation two great Wolues ran after the Dog the Dog ran to him and betwixt his leggs for succour he had nothing in his hand but tooke vp a sticke and threw at one of them and hit him and they presently ran both away but came againe he got a pai●e bord in his hand and they sat both on their tayles grinning at him a good while and went their way and left him Saturday 20. we made vp our Shed for our common goods Sunday the 21. we kept our meeting on Land Munday the 22. was a faire day we wrought on our houses and in the after-noone carried vp our hogsheads of meale to our common store

night then we thought to carry him on ship-boord wherewith he was well content and went into the Shallop but the winde was high and water scant that it could not returne backe we lodged him that night at Steven Hopkins house and watched him the next day he went away backe to the Masasoits from whence he sayd he came who are our next bordering neighbours they are sixtie strong as he sayth the Nausites are as neere South-east of them and are a hundred strong and those were they of whom our people were encountred as we before related They are much incensed and provoked against the English and about eyght moneths agoe slew three English men and two more hardly escaped by flight to Monhiggon they were Sir Ferdinando Gorge his men as this Savage told vs as he did likewise of the Huggerie that is Fight that our discoverers had with the Nausites of our tooles that were taken out of the woods which we willed him should be brought againe otherwise we would right our selues These people are ill affected towards the English by reason of one Hunt a master of a ship who deceived the people and got them vnder colour of ●ruking with them twentie out of this very place where we inhabite and seaven men from the Nausites and carried them away and sold them for slaues like a wretched man for 20. pound a man that cares not what mischiefe he doth for hi● profit Saturday in the morning we dismissed the Salvage and gaue him a knife a bracelet and a ring he promised within a night or two to come againe and to bring with him some of the Massasoyts our neighbours with such Beuers skins as they had to trucke with vs. Saturday and Sunday reasonable fayre dayes On this day came againe the Savage and brought with him fiue other tall proper men they had every man a Deeres skin on him and the principall of them had a wild Cats skin or such like on the one arme they had most of them long hosen vp to their groynes close made and aboue their groynes to their wast another leather they were altogether like the Irish-trouses they are of complexion like our English Gipseys no haire or very little on their faces on their heads long haire to their shoulders onely cut before some trussed vp before with a feather broad wise like a fanne another a fox tayle hanging out these left according to our charge giuen him before their Bowes and Arrowes a quarter of a myle from our Towne we gaue them entertaynement as we thought was sitting them they did eate liberally of our English victuals they made semblance vnto vs of friendship and amitie they song danced after their maner like Anticks they brought with them in a thing like a Bow-case which the principall of them had about his wast a little of their Corne pownded to Powder which put to a little water they eate he had a little Tobacco in a bag but none of them drunke but when he listed some of them had their faces paynted blacke from the forehead to the chin foure or fiue fingers broad others after other fashions as they liked they brought three or foure skins but we would not trucke with them at all that day but wished them to bring more and we would trucke for all which they promised within a night or two and would leaue these behind them though we were not willing they should and they brought vs all our tooles againe which were taken in the Woods in our mens absence so because of the day we dismissed them so soone as we could But Samoset our first acquaintance eyther was sicke or fayned himselfe so and would not goe with them and stayed with vs till Wednesday morning Then we sent him to them to know the reason they came not according to their words and we gaue him an hat a payre of stockings and shooes a shirt and a peece of cloth to tie about his wast The Sabboth day when we sent them from vs wee gaue every one of them some trifles especially the principall of them we carried them along with our Armes to the place where they left their Bowes and Arrowes whereat they were amazed and two of them began to slinke away but that the other called them when they tooke their Arrowes we bad them farewell and they were glad and so with many thankes giuen vs they departed with promise they would come againe Munday and tuesday proved fayre dayes we digged on● grounds and sowed our garden seeds Wednesday a fine warme day we sent away Samose● That day we had againe a meeting to conclude of lawes and orders for our selues and to confirme those Military Orders that were formerly propounded and twise broken off by the Savages comming but so we were againe the third time for after we had beene an houre together on the top of the hill over against vs two or three Savages presented themselues that made semblance of daring vs as we thought so Captaine Standish with another with their Muskets went over to them with two of the masters mates that follows them without Armes having two Muskets with them they wherted and rubbed their Arrowes and Strings and made shew of defiance but when our men drew nere them they ranne away Thus we were againe interrupted by them this day with much adoe we got our Carpenter that had beene long sicke of the scurvey to fit our Shallop to fetch all from aboord Thursday the 22. of March was a very fayre warme day About noone we met againe about our publique businesse but we had scarc● beene an houre together but Samoset came againe and Squanto the onely natiue of Patuxat where we now inhabite who was one of the twentie Captiues that by Hunt were carried away and had beene in England dwelt in Cornehill with master Iohn Sla●ie a Marchant and could speake a little English with three others and they brought with them some few skinnes to trucke and some red Herrings newly taken and dryed but not salted and signified vnto vs that their great Sagamore Masasoyt was hard by with Quadequina his brother and all their men They could not well expresse in English what they would but after an houre the King came to the top of an hill over against vs and had in his trayne sixtie men that wee could well behold them and they vs we were not willing to send our governour to them and they vnwilling to come to vs so Squanto went againe vnto him who brought word that wee should send one to parley with him which we did which was Edward Winsloe to know his mind and to signifie the mind and will of our governour which was to haue trading and peace with him We sent to the King a payre of Kniues and a Copper Chayne with a Iewell at it To Quadequina we sent likewise a Knife and a Iewell to hang in his eare and withall a Pot of strong water a

both more narrow search and carefull reformation of our wayes in his sight lest he calling to remembrance our sinnes forgotten by vs or vnrepented of take aduantage against vs and in iudgement leaue vs for the same to be swallowed vp in one danger or other whereas on the contrary sin being taken away by earnest repentance and the pardon thereof from the Lord sealed vp vnto a mans conscience by his Spirit great shall be his securitie and peace in all dangers sweete his comforts in all distresses with happie deliuerance from all euill whether in life or in death Now next after this heauenly peace with God and our owne consciences we are carefully to prouide for peace with all men what in vs lieth especially with our associates and for that end watchfulnes must be had that we neither at all in our selues do giue no nor easily take offence being giuen by others Woe be vnto the world for offences for though it be necessary considering the malice of Satan and mans corruption that offences come yet woe vnto the man or woman either by whom the offence cometh saith Christ Math. 18.7 And if offences in the vnseasonable vse of things in them selues indifferent be more to be feared then death it selfe as the Apostle teacheth 1. Cor. 9.15 how much more in things simply euill in which neither honour of God nor loue of man is thought worthy to be regarded Neither yet is it sufficient that we keep our selues by the grace of God from giuing offence except withall we be armed against the taking of them when they are giuen by others For how vnperfect and lame is the worke of grace in that person who wants charitie to couer a multitude of offences as the Scriptures speake Neither are you to be exhorted to this grace onely vpon the common grounds of Christianitie which are that persons ready to take offence either want charitie to couer offences or wisedome duly to weigh humane frailtie or lastly are grosse though close hypocrites as Christ our Lord teacheth Math. 7.1 2 3. as indeed in mine owne experience few or none haue beene found which sooner giue offence then such as easily take it neither haue they euer proued sound and profitable members in societies which haue nourished in themselues that touchey humour But besides these there are diuers spe●iall motiues prouoking you aboue others to great care and conscience this way As first you are many of you strangers as to the persons so to the infirmities one of another and so stand in neede of more watchfulnesse this way lest when such things fall out in men and women as you suspected not you be inordinately affected with them which doth require at your hands much wisedome and charitie for the couering and preuenting of incident offences that way And last●y your intended course of ciuill communitie wil minister continuall occasion of offence and will be as fuell for that fire except you diligently quench it with brotherly forbearance And if taking of offence causlesly or easily at mens doings be so carefully to be auoided how much more heed is to be taken that we take not offence at God himselfe which yet we certainly do so oft as we do murmure at his prouidence in our crosses or beare impatiently such afflictions as wherewith he pleaseth to visit vs. Store we vp therefore patience against the euill day without which we take offence at the Lord himselfe in his holy and iust works A fourth thing there is carefully to be prouided for to wit that with your common emploiments you ioyne common affections truly bent vpon the generall good auoiding as a deadly plague of your both common and speciall comfort all retirednesse of minde for proper aduantage and all singularly affected any maner of way let euery man represse in himselfe and the whole bodie in each person as so many rebels against the common good all priuate respects of mens selues not sorting with the generall conueniencie And as men are carefull not to haue a new house shaken with any violence before it be well settled and the parts firmly knit so be you I beseech you brethren much more carefull that the house of God which you are and are to be be not shaken with vnnecessary nouelties or other oppositions at the first settling thereof Lastly whereas you are to become a body politik vsing amongst your selues ciuill gouernment and are not furnished with any persons of speciall eminencie aboue the rest to be chosen by you into office of gouernment Let your wisedome and godlinesse appeare not onely in chusing such persons as do entirely loue and will diligently promote the common good but also in yeelding vnto them all due honour and obedience in their lawfull administrations not beholding in them the ordinarinesse of their persons but Gods ordinance for your good nor being like vnto the foolish multitude who more honour the gay coate then either the vertuous mind of the man or glorious ordinance of the Lord. But you know better things and that the image of the Lords power and authoritie which the Magistrate beareth is honorable in how meane persons soeuer And this dutie you both may the more willingly and ought the more conscionably to performe because you are at least for the present to haue onely them for your ordinary gouernours which your selues shall make choise of for that worke Sundrie other things of importance I could put you in mind of and of those before mentioned in more words but I will not so far wrong your godly minds as to thinke you heedlesse of these things there being also diuers among you so well able to admonish both themselues and others of what concerneth them These few things therefore and the same in few words I do earnestly commend vnto your care and conscience ioyning therewith my daily incessant prayers vnto the Lord that he who hath made the heauens and the earth the sea and all riuers of waters and whose prouidence is ouer all his workes especially ouer all his deare childre● for good would so guide and guard you in your wayes as inwardly by his Spirit so outwardly by the hand of his power as that both you and we also for and with you may haue after matter of praising his Name all the days of your and our liues Fare you well in him in whom you trust and in whom I rest An vnfained well-willer of your happie successe in this hopefull voyage I. R. A RELATION OR IOVRNALL OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE Plantation setled at Plimoth in New ENGLAND WEdnesday the sixt of September the Wind comming East North East a sine small gale we loosed from Plimoth hauing beene kindly intertained and curteously vsed by diuer● friends there dwelling and after many difficulties in boysterous stormes at length by Gods prouidence vpon the ninth of Nouember following by breake of the day we espied land which we deemed to be Cape Cod and so afterward it proued And the

from hence we intended to haue sayled to the aforesayd theeuish Harbour if wee found no convenient Harbour by the way having the wind good we sayled all that day along the Coast about 15. leagues but saw neither River nor Creeke to put into after we had sayled an houre or two it began to snow and raine and to be bad weather about the midst of the afternoone the winde increased and the Seas began to be very rough and the hinges of the rudder broke so that we could steere no longer with it but two men with much adoe were same to serue with a couple of Oares the Seas were growne so great that we were much troubled and in great daunger and night grew on Anon Master Coppin bad vs be of good cheere he saw the Harbour as we drew neare the gale being stiffe and we bearing great sayle to get in split our Mast in 3. peices and were like to haue cast away our Shallop yet by Gods mercy recovering our selues wee had the floud with vs and struck into the Harbour Now he that thought that had beene the place was deceived it being a place where not any of vs had beene before and comming into the Harbour he that was our Pilot did beare vp North-ward which if we had continued wee had beene cast away yet still the Lord kept vs and we bare vp for an Iland before vs and recovering of that Iland being compassed about with many Rocks and darke night growing vpon vs it pleased the Divine providence that we fell vpon a place of sandy ground where our Shallop did ride safe and secure all that night and comming vpon a strange Iland kept our watch all night in the raine vpon that Iland and in the morning we marched about it found no Inhabitants at all and here wee made our Randevous all that day being Saturday 10. of December on the Sabboth day wee rested and on Munday we sounded the Harbour and found it a uery good Harbour for our shipping we marched also into the Land and found divers corne fields and little running brookes a place very good for scituation so we returned to our Ship againe with good newes to the rest of our people which did much comfort their hearts On the fifteenth day we waighed Anchor to goe to the place we had discovered and comming within two leagues of the Land we could not fetch the Harbour but were faine to put roome againe towards Cape Cod our course lying West and the wind was at North west but it pleased God that the next day being Saturday the 16. day the winde came faire and wee put to Sea againe and came safely into a safe Harbour and within halfe an houre the winde changed so as if we had beene letted but a little we had gone backe to Cape Cod. This Harbour is a Bay greater then Cape Cod compassed with a goodly Land and in the Bay 2. fine Ilands vninhabited wherein are nothing but wood Okes Pines Wal-nut Beech Sasifras Vines and other trees which wee know not This Bay is a most hopefull place innumerable store of fowle and excellent good and cannot but bee of fish in their seasons Skote Cod Turbot and Herring wee haue tasted of abundance of Musles the greatest best that ever we saw Crabs and Lobsters in their time infinite It is in fashion like a Cikle or Fish-hooke Munday the 13. day we went a land manned with the Maister of the Ship and 3. or 4. of the Saylers we marched along the coast in the woods some 7. or 8. mile but saw not an Indian nor an Indian house only we found where formerly had beene some Inhabitants and where they had planted their corne we found not any Navigable River but 4. or 5. small ●unning brookes of very sweet fresh water that all run into the Sea The Land for the crust of the earth is a spits depth excellent blacke mold and fat in some places 2. or 3. great Oakes but not very thicke Pines Wal-nuts Beech Ash Birch Hasell Holley Asp Sasifras in abundance Vines euery where Cherry trees Plum trees and many other which we know not many kinds of hearbes we found heere in Winter as Strawbery leaues innumerable Sorrell Yarow Caruell Brook-lime Liver-wort Water-cresses great store of Leekes and Onyons and an excellent strong kind of Flaxe and Hempe here is sand gravell and excellent clay no better in the Worlde excellent for pots and will wash like sope and great store of stone though somewhat soft and the best water that ever we drunke and the Brookes now begin to be full of fish that night many being weary with marching wee went abourd againe The next morning being Tuesday the 19. of December wee went againe to discover further some went on Land and some in the Shallop the Land we found as the former day we did and we found a Creeke and went vp three English myles a very pleasant river at full Sea a Barke of thirty tunne may goe vp but at low water scarce our Shallop could passe this place we had a great liking to plant in but that it was so farre from our fishing our principall profit and so incompassed with woods that we should bee in much danger of the Salvages and our number being so little and so much ground to cleare so as wee thought good to quit and cleare that place till we were of more strength some of vs hauing a good minde for safety to plant in the greater Ile wee crossed the Bay which there is fiue or sixe myles ouer and found the I le about a myle and a halfe or two myles about all wooded and no fresh water but 2. or 3. pits that we doubted of fresh water in Summer and so full of wood as we could hardly cleare so much as to serue vs for Corne besides wee iudged it colde for our Corne and some part very rockie yet diuers thought of it as a place defensible and of great securitie That night we returned againe a ship boord with resolution the next morning to setle on some of those places so in the morning after we had called on God for direction we came to this resolution to goe presently ashore againe and to take a better view of two places which wee thought most fitting for vs for we could not now take time for further search or consideration our victuals being much spent especially our Beere and it being now the 19. of December After our landing and viewing of the places so well as we could we came to a conclusion by most voyces to set on the maine Land on the first place on an high ground where there is a great deale of Land cleared and hath beene planted with Corne three or foure yeares agoe and there is a very sweet brooke runnes vnder the hill side and many delicate springs of as good water as can be drunke and where we may harbour our Shallops and Boates exceeding well and

house The rest of the weeke we followed our businesse likewise Munday the 29. in the morning cold frost and sleete but after reasonable fayre both the long Boate and the Shallop brought our common goods on shore Tuesday and wednesday 30. and 31. of Ianuary cold frosty weather and sleete that we could not worke in the morning the Master and others saw two Savages that had beene on the Iland nere our Ship what they came for wee could not tell they were going so farre backe againe before they were des●ried that we could not speake with them Sunday the 4. of February was very wett and rainie with the greatest gusts of winde that ever we had since wee came forth that though we rid in a very good harbour yet we were in danger because our Ship was light the goods taken out and she vnballased and it caused much daubing of our houses to fall downe Fryday the 9. still the cold weather continued that wee could doe little worke That after-noone our little house for our sicke people was set on fire by a sparke that kindled in the roofe but no great harme was done That evening the master going ashore killed fiue Geese which he friendly distributed among the sicke people he found also a good Deere killed the Savages had cut off the hornes and a Wolfe was eating of him how he came there we could not conceiue Friday the 16. day was a faire day but the northerly wind continued which continued the frost this day after-noone one of our people being a fouling and having taken a stand by a creeke side in the Reeds about a myle and an halfe from our Plantation there came by him twelue Indians marching towards our Plantation in the woods he heard the noyse of many more he lay close till they were passed and then with what speed he could he went home gaue the Alarm so the people abroad in the woods returned armed themselues but say none of them onely toward the euening they made a great fire about the place where they were first discovered Captaine Miles Standish and Francis Cooke being at worke in the Woods comming home left their tooles behind them but before they returned their tooles were taken away by the Savages This comming of the Savages gaue vs occasion to keepe more strict watch and to make our peeces and furniture readie which by the moysture and rayne were out of temper Saturday the 17 day in the morning we called a meeting for the establishing of military Orders amongst our selues and we chose Miles Standish our Captaine and gaue him authoritie of command in affayres and as we were in consultation here abouts two Savages presented themselues vpon the top of an hill over against our Plantation about a quarter of a myle and lesse and made signes vnto vs to come vnto them we likewise made signes vnto them to come to vs whereupon we armed our selues and stood readie and sent two over the brooke towards them to wit Captaine Standish and Steven Hopkins who went towards them onely one of them had a Musket which they layd downe on the ground in their sight in signe of peace and to parley with them but the Savages would not tarry their comming a noyse of a great many more was heard behind the hill but no more came in sight This caused vs to plant our great Ordinances in places most convenient Wednesday the 21. of February the master came on shore with many of his Saylers and brought with him one of the great Peeces called a Minion and helped vs to draw it vp the hill with another Peece that lay on shore and mounted them and a saller and two bases he brought with him a very fat Goose to eate with vs and we had a fat Crane and a Mallerd and a dry'd neats-tongue and so wee were kindly and friendly together Saturday the third of March the winde was South the morning mistie but towards noone warme and fayre weather the Birds sang in the Woods most pleasantly at one of the Clocke it thundred which was the first wee heard in that Countrey it was strong and great claps but short but after an houre it rayned very sadly till midnight Wednesday the seaventh of March the wind was full East cold but faire that day Master Carver with fiue other went to the great Ponds which seeme to be excellent fishing places all the way they went they found it exceedingly beaten and haunted with Deere but they saw none amongst other foule they saw one a milke white foule with a very blacke ●●ad this day some garden seeds were sowen Fryday the 16. a fayre warme day towards this morning we determined to conclude of the military Orders which we had began to consider of before but were interrupted by the Savages as we mentioned formerly and whilst we were bu●●ed here about we were interrupted againe for there presented himselfe a Savage which caused an Alarm he very boldly came all alone and along the houses straight to the Randevous where we intercepted him not suffering him to goe in as vndoubtedly he would out of his boldnesse hee saluted vs in English and bad vs well-come for he had learned some broken English amongst the English men that came to fish at Monchiggon and knew by name the most of the Captaines Commanders Masters that vsually come he was a man free in speech so farre as he could expresse his minde and of a seemely carriage we questioned him of many things he was the first Savage we could meete withall he sayd he was not of these parts but of Morattiggon and one of the Sagamores or Lords thereof and had beene 8. moneths in these parts it lying hence a dayes sayle with a great wind and fiue dayes by land he discoursed of the whole Country and of every Province and of their Sagamores and their number of men and strength the wind beginning to rise a little we cast a horsemans coat about him for he was starke naked onely a leather about his wast with a fringe about a span long or little more he had a bow 2 arrowes the one ●eaded and the other vnheaded he was a tall straight man the haire of his head blacke long behind onely short before none on his face at all he asked some beere but we gaue him strong water and bisket and butter and cheese pudding and a peece of a mallerd all which he liked well and had bin acquainted with such amongst the English he told vs the place where we now liue is called Patuxe● and that abou● foure yeares agoe all the Inhabitants dyed of an extraordinary plague and there is neither man woman nor childe remaining as indeed we haue found none so as there is none to hinder our possession or to lay claime vnto it all the afternoone we spent in communication with him we would gladly haue beene rid of him at night but he was not willing to goe this