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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

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

they should continue long in that estate it would indanger the liues of many and breed diseases and infection amongst vs. Againe we had yet some Beere Butter Flesh and other such victuals left which would quickly be all gone and then we should haue nothing to comfort vs in the great labour and toyle we were like to vnder-goe at the first It was also conceived whilst we had competent victuals that the Ship would stay with vs but when that grew low they would be gone and let vs shift as we could Others againe vrged greatly the going to Anguum or Angoum a place twentie leagues off to the North-wards which they had heard to be an excellent harbour for ships better ground and better fishing Secondly for any thing we knew there might be hard by vs a farre better seate and it should be a great hindrance to seate where wee should remoue againe Thirdly The water was but in ponds and it was thought there would be none in Summer or very little Fourthly the water there must be fetched vp a steepe hill but to omit many reasons and replies vsed heere abouts It was in the ende concluded to make some discovery within the Bay but in no case so farre as Angoum besides Robert Coppin our Pilot made relation of a great Navigable River and good harbour in the other head land of this Bay almost right over against Cape Cod being a right line not much aboue eight leagues distant in which hee had beene once and because that one of the wild men with whom they had some trucking stole a harping Iron from them they called it theeuish harbour And beyond that place they were enioyned not to goe whereupon a Company was chosen to goe out vppon a third discovery whilest some were imployed in this discovery it pleased God that Mistris White was brought a bed of a Sonne which was called Peregrine The fift day we through Gods mercy escaped a great danger by the foolishnes of a Boy one of Francis Billingtons Sonnes who in his Fathers absence had got Gun-powder and had shot of a peice or two and made squibs and there being a fowling peice charged in his fathers Cabbin shot her off in the Cabbin there being a little barrell of powder halfe full scattered in and about the Cabbin the fire being within foure foote of the bed betweene the Deckes and many s●ints and Iron things about the Cabbin and many people about the fire and yet by Gods mercy no harme done Wednesday the sixt of December it was resolved our discoverers should set forth for the day before was too fowle weather and so they did though it was well ore the day ere all things could be readie So ten of our men were appointed who were of themselues willing to vndertake it to wit Captaine Standish Maister Carver William Bradford Edward Winsloe Iohn Tilley Edward Tilley Iohn Houland and three of London Richard Warren Steeuen Hopkins and Edward Dotte and two of our Sea-men Iohn Alderton and Thomas English of the Ships Company there went two of the Masters Mates Master Clarke and Master Copin the Master Gunner and three Saylers The narration of which Discovery followes penned by one of the Company Wednesday the sixt of December wee set out being very cold and hard weather wee were a long while after we lunched from the ship before we could get cleare of a sandie poynt which lay within lesse then a fu●long of the same In which time two were very sicke and Edward Tilley had like to haue founded with cold the Gunner was also sicke vnto Death but hope of truking made him to goe and so remained all that day and the next night at length we got cleare of the sandy poynt and got vp our sayles and within an houre or two we got vnder the weather shore and then had smoother water and better sayling but it was very cold for the water frose on our clothes and made them many times like coats of Iron wee sayled sixe or seaven leagues by the shore but saw neither river nor creeke at length wee me●t with a tongue of Land being flat off from the shore with a sandy poynt we bore vp to gaine the poynt found there a fayre income or rode of a Bay being a league over at the narrowest and some two or three in length but wee made right over to the land before vs and left the discovery of this Income till the next day as we drew neare to the shore wee espied some ten or twelue Indians very busie about a blacke thing what it was we could not tell till afterwards they saw vs and ran to and fro as if they had beene carrying some thing away wee landed a league or two from them and had much adoe to put a shore any where it lay so full of flat sands when we came to shore we made vs a Baricado and got fire wood and set out our Sentinells and betooke vs to our lodging such as it was we saw the smoke of the fire which the Savages made that night about foure or fiue myles from vs in the morning we devided our company some eight in the Shallop and the rest on the shore went to discouer this place but we found it onely to be a Bay without either river or creeke comming into it yet we deemed it to be as good an harbour as Cape Cod for they that ●ounded it found a ship might ride in fiue fathom water wee on the land found it to be a levill soyle but none of the fruitfullest 5 wee saw two beckes of fresh water which were the first running streames that we saw in the Country but one might stride over them we found also a great fish called a Grampus dead on the sands they in the Shallop found two of them also in the bottome of the bay dead in like sort they were cast vp at high water and could not get off for the frost and ice they were some fiue or sixe paces long and about two inches thicke of fat and fleshed like a Swine they would haue yeelded a great deale of oyle if there had beene time and meanes to haue taken it so we finding nothing for our turne both we and our Shallop returned We then directed our course along the Sea-sands to the place where we first saw the Indians when we were there we saw it was also a Grampus which they were cutting vp they cut it into long rands or peeces about an ell long and two handfull broad wee found here and there a peece scattered by the way as it seemed for hast this place the most were minded we should call the Grampus Bay because we found so many of them there wee followed the tract of the Indians bare feete a good way on the sands as length we saw where they strucke into the Woods by the side of a Pond as wee went to view the place one sayd hee thought hee saw an Indian-house

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