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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

in the end we found it to be onely a path made to driue Deere in when the Indians hunt as wee supposed when we had ma●ched fiue or six myles into the Woods and could find no signes of any people we returned againe another way and as we came into the plaine ground wee found a place like a graue but it was much bigger and longer then any we had yet seene It was also covered with boords so as we mused what it should be and resolved to digge it vp where we found first a Matt and vnder that a fayre Bow and there another Matt and vnder that a boord about three quarters long finely carued and paynted with three tynes or broches on the top like a Crowne also betweene the Matts we found Boules Trayes Dishes and such like Trinkets at length we came to a faire new Matt and vnder that two Bundles the one bigger the other lesse we opened the greater and found in it a great quantitie of fine and perfect red Powder and in it the bones and skull of a man The skull had fine yellow haire still on it and some of the flesh vnconsumed there was bound vp with it a knife a pack-needle and two or three old iron things It was bound vp in a Saylers canvas Casacke and a payre of cloth breeches the red Powder was a kind of Embaulment and yeelded a strong but no offensiue smell It was as fine as any flower We opened the lesse bundle likewise and found of the same Powder in it and the bones and head of a little childe about the leggs and other parts of it was bound strings and bracelets of fine white Beads there was also by it a little Bow about three quarters long and some other odd knackes we brought sundry of the pretiest things away with vs and covered the Corps vp againe After this we digged in sundry like places but found no more Corne nor any things els but graues There was varietie of opinions amongst vs about the embalmed person some thought it was an Indian Lord and King others sayd the Indians haue all blacke hayre and never any was seene with browne or yellow hayre some thought it was a Christian of some speciall note which had dyed amongst them and they thus buried him to honour him others thought they had killed him and did it in triumph over him Whilest we were thus ranging and searching two of the Saylers which were newly come on the shore by chance espied two houses which had beene lately dwelt in but the people were gone They having their peeces and hearing no body entred the houses and tooke out some things and du●st not stay but came againe and told vs so some seaven or eight of vs went with them and found how we had gone within a slight shot of them before The houses were made with long yong Sapling trees bended and both ends stucke into the ground they were made round like vnto an Arbour and covered downe to the ground with thicke and well wrought matts and the doore was not over a yard high made of a matt to open the chimney was a wide open hole in the top for which they had a matt to cover it close when they pleased one might stand and goe vpright in them in the midst of them were foure little trunches knockt into the ground and small stickes laid over on which they hung their Pots and what they had to seeth round about the fire they lay on matts which are their beds The houses were double matted for as they were matted without so were they within with newer fairer matts In the houses we found wooden Boules Trayes Dishes Earthen Pots Hand baskets made of Crab shells wrought together also an English Paile or Bucket it wanted a bayle but it had two Iron eares there was also Baskets of sundry sorts bi●ger and some lesser finer and some courser some were curiously wrought with blacke and white in pretie workes and sundry other of their houshold stuffe we found also two or three Deeres heads one whereof had bin newly killed for it was still fresh there was also a company of Deeres feete stuck vp in the houses Harts hornes and Eagles clawes and sundry such like things there was also two or three Baskets full of pa●ched Acornes peeces of fish and a peece of a broyled Hering We found also a little silke grasse and a little Tobacco seed with some other seeds which wee knew not without was sundry bundles of Flags and Sedge B●ll rushes and other stuffe to make matts there was thrust into an hollow tree two or three peeces of Venison but we thought it fitter for the Dogs then for vs some of the best things we tooke away with vs and left the houses standing still as they were so it growing towards night and the tyde almost spent we hasted with our things downe to the Shallop and got abourd that night intending to haue brought some Beades and other things to haue left in the houses in signe of Peace and that we meant to truk with them but it was not done by meanes of our hastie comming away from Cape Cod but so soone as we can meete conveniently with them we will giue them full satisfaction Thus much of our second Discovery Having thus discovered this place it was controversall amongst vs what to doe touching our aboad and setling there some thought it best for many reasons to abide there As first that there was a convenient harbour for Boates though not for Ships Secondly Good Corne ground readie to our hands as we saw by experience in the goodly corne it yeelded which would againe agree with the ground and be naturall seed for the same Thirdly Cape Cod was like to be a place of good fishing for we saw daily great Whales of the best kind for oyle and bone come close aboord our Ship and in fayre weather swim and play about vs there was once one when the Sun shone warme c●me and lay aboue water as if she had beene dead for a good while together within halfe a Mu●ket shot of the Ship at which two were prepared to shoote to see whether she would s●ir or no he that gaue fire first his Mu●ket flew in peeces both stocke and barrell yet thankes be to God neither he nor any man els was hurt with it though many were there about but when the Whale saw her time she gaue a snuffe and away Fourthly the place was likely to be healthfull secure and de●ensible But the last and especiall reason was that now the heart of Wint●r and vnseasonable weather was come vpon vs so that we could not goe vpon coasting and discovery without danger of loosing men and Boat vpon which would follow the overthrow of all especially considering what variable windes and sodaine stormes doe there arise Also cold and wett lodging had so taynted our people for scarce any of vs were free from vehement coughs as if

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

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