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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

appearance of it much comforted vs especially seeing so goodly a Land and woodded to the brinke of the sea it caused vs to reioyce together and praise God that had giuen vs once againe to see land And thus wee made our course South South West purposing to goe to a Riuer ten leagues to the South of the Cape but at night the winde being con●rary we put round againe for the Bay of Cape Cod and vpon the 11. of Nouember we came to an anchor in the Bay which is a good harbour and pleasant Bay circled round except in the entrance which is about foure miles ouer from land to land compassed about to the very Sea with Okes Pines Iuniper Sassafras and other sweet wood it is a harbour wherein 1000. saile of Ships may safely ride there we relieued our selues with wood and water and refreshed our people while our shallop was fitted to coast the Bay to search for an habitation there was the greatest store of fowle that euer we saw An●●uery day we saw Whales playing hard by vs of which in that place if we had instruments meanes to take them we might haue made a very rich returne which to our great griefe we wanted Our master and his mate and other● experienced in fishing professed we might haue made three or foure thousand pounds worth of Oyle they preferred it before Greenland Whale-●ishing purpose the next winter to fish for Whale here for ●od we a●●ayed but found none there is good store no doubt in their season Neither got we any ●i●h all the time we lay there but some few little ones on the shore We found great Mussles and very fat and full of Sea pearle but we could not eat them for they made vs all sicke that did eat as well saylers as passengers they caused to cast and se●ure b●t they were soone well againe The bay is so round circling that before we could come to anchor we went round all the points of the Compasse We could not come neere the shore by three quarters of an English mile because of shallow water which was a great preiudice to vs for our people going on shore were forced to wade a bow shoot or two in going aland which caused many to get colds and coughs for it was many times freezing cold weather This day before we came to harbour obseruing some not well affected to vnitie and concord but gaue some appearance of faction it was thought good there should be an association and agreement that we should combine together in one body and to submit to such government and governours as we should by common consent agree to make and chose and set our hands to this that followes word fo● word IN the name of God Amen We whose names are vnde●written the loyall Subiects of our dread soveraigne Lord King IAMES by the grace of God of Great Britaine France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. Having vnder-taken for the glory of God and advancement of the Christian Faith and honour of our King and Countrey a Voyage to plant the first Colony in the Northerne parts of VIRGINIA doe by these presents solemnly mutually in the presence of God and one of another covenant and combine our selues together into a civill body politike for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid and by vertue hereof to enact constitute and frame such iust and equall Lawes Ordinances acts constitutions offices from time to time as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the generall good of the Colony vnto which we promise all due submission and obedience In witnesse whereof we haue here vnder subscribed our names Cape Cod 11. of November in the yeare of the raigne of our soveraigne Lord King IAMES of England France and Ireland 18. and of Scotland 54. Anno Domino 1620. The same day so soone as we could we set a-shore 15. or 16. men well armed with some to fetch wood for we had none left as also to see what the Land was and what Inhabitants they could meet with they found it to be a small neck of Land on this side where we lay is the Bay and the f●rther side the Sea the ground or earth sand hils much like the Downes in Holland but much better the crust of the earth a Spits depth excellent blacke earth all wooded with Okes Pines Sassafras Iuniper Birch Holly Vines some Ash Walnut the wood for the most part open and without vnderwood sit either to goe or ride in at night our people returned but found not any person nor habitation and laded their Boat with Iuniper which smelled very sweet strong and of which we burnt the most part of the time we lay there Munday the 13. of November we vnshipped our Shallop and drew her on land to mend and repaire her having bin forced to cut her downe in bestowing her betwixt the decks and she was much opened with the peoples lying in her which kept vs long there for it was 16. or 17. dayes before the Carpenter had finished her our people went on shore to refresh themselues and our women to wash as they had great need but whilest we lay thus still hoping our Shallop would be ready in fiue or sixe dayes at the furthest but our Carpenter made slow worke of it so that some of our people impatient of delay desired for our better furtherance to travaile by Land into the Countrey which was not without appearance of danger not having the Shallop with them nor meanes to carry provision but on their backes to see whether it might be fit for vs to seate in or no and the rather because as we sayled into the Harbour there seemed to be a river opening it selfe into the maine land the willingnes of the persons was liked but the thing it selfe in regard of the danger was rather permitted then approved and so with cautions directions and instructions sixteene men were set out with every man his Musket Sword and Corslet vnder the conduct of Captaine Miles Standish vnto whom was adioyned for counsell and advise William Bradford Stephen Hopkins and Edward Tilley Wednesday the 15. of November they were set a shore and when they had ordered themselues in the order of a single File and marched about the space of a myle by the Sea they espyed fiue or sixe people with a Dogge comming towards them who were Savages who when they saw them ran into the Wood and whilled the Dogge after them c. First they supposed them to be master Iones the Master and some of his men for they were a shore and knew of their comming but after they knew them to be Indians they marched after them into the Woods least other of the Indians should lie in Ambush but when the Indians saw our men following them they ran away with might and may ●e and our men turned out of the Wood after them for it was the way

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

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