Three Visitors to Early Plymouth Letters about the Pilgrim settlement in New England during its first seven years

But for all this, I am not so wedded to my own desires as to reject your good advice. For if you think it better for me to leave this country than to tarry in it, showing your r...

As touching their correspondence with the Indians, they are friends with all their neighbours—as namely with those of Cohasset[26] and Massachusetts to the north, with the great...

So soon as Mr. Peirce his coming into the land[97] came to my ears, I was forced much against my mind, both by the importunity of Mr. Bridge and insolences of all our company, t...

And now I will speak somewhat of the savages in the country about—I mean the native Indians. The nearest that any dwell unto [Plymouth] is fourteen miles, and their town is call...

When a woman here addicts herself to fornication, and the husband comes to know it, he thrashes her soundly, and if he wishes to get rid of her, he summons the Sackima with her...

INTRODUCTION vii EDITOR’S PREFACE xi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xiii JOHN PORY (1572-1635) 3 John Pory to the Earl of Southampton, January 13, 1622/1623, and later 5 John Pory to the Gover...

[47]Possibly an illusion, possibly Block Island. It appears as _Cabeleaus Eyleut_ (?) on the “Carte Figurative” (1616), reproduced in T. A. Janvier, _The Dutch Founding of New Y...

M Marshall, John, 51 Martha’s Vineyard, 11-12, 27 Massachusetts Indians, 30-31 Massasoit, 11, 29-31 minerals on New England coast, 17, 27 Mohawk Indians, 13 Monhegan Island, 14,...