A RELATION OR With their difficult paffage,their fafe ariuall, their AS ALSO A RELATION OF FOVRE I. In a journey to PVCKANOKICK the babitation of the Indians greateft King Mallaloyt : as also their message, the answer and entertainment they had of him. 11. Ina voyage made by ten of them to the Kingdome of Nawfet, to seeke a boy that bad loft himselfe in the woods: with fuch accidents as befell them in that voyage. III. In their journey to the Kingdome of Namaschet, in defence of their greatest King Maffafoyt, against the Narrohiggonfets, and to reuenge the fuppofed death of their Interpreter Tifquantum. IIII, Their voyage to the Massachusets, and their entertainment there. With an answer to all fuch obiections as are any way made against the lawfulnetfe of English plantations in those parts. LONDON, Printed for Iohn Bellamic, and are to be fold at his fhop at the two Greyhounds in Cornhill neere the Royall Exchange. 1622, (ti TITLE PAGE OF "MOURT'S RELATION" From a copy of the original edition in the New York Public Library (Lenox Building) yea from their youth. Many other smaler maters I omite, sundrie of them having been allready published in a Jurnall made by one of the company; and some other passages of jurneys and relations allredy published, to which I referr those that are willing to know them more perticulerly. And being now come to the 25. of March I shall begine the year 1621.2 Anno. 1621. THEY now begane to dispatch the ship away which brought them over, which lay tille aboute this time, or the begining of Aprill. The reason on their parts why she stayed so long, was the necessitie and danger that lay upon them, for it was well towards the ende of Desember before she could land any thing hear, or they able to receive any thing ashore. Afterwards, the 14. of Jan: the house which they had made for a generall randevoze by casulty fell afire, and some were faine to retire abord for shilter. Then the sicknes begane to fall sore amongst them, and the weather so bad as they could not make much sooner any dispatch. Againe, the Gov' and cheefe of them, seeing so many dye, and fall downe sick dayly, thought it it no wisdom to send away the ship, their condition considered, and the danger they stood in from the Indeans, till they could procure some shelter; and therfore thought it better to draw some more charge upon them selves and freinds, then hazard all. The m' and sea-men likewise, though before they hasted the passengers a shore to be goone, now many of their men being dead, and of the ablest of them, (as is before noted,) and of the rest many lay sick and weake, the m durst not put to sea, till he saw his men begine to recover, and the hart of winter over. Afterwards they (as many as were able) began to plant ther corne, in which servise Squanto stood them in great stead, showing them both the maner how to set it, and after how to See the editor's In 1The journal referred to is that in "Mourt's Relation." troduction and the fac-simile of the title-page. 2 See p. 56, note 3. dress and tend it. Also he tould them excepte they gott fish and set with it (in these old grounds)' it would come to nothing, and he showed them that in the midle of Aprill they should have store enough come up the brooke, by which they begane to build, and taught them how to take it, and wher to get other provissions necessary for them; all which they found true by triall and experience. Some English seed they sew, as wheat and pease, but it came not to good, eather by the badnes of the seed, or latenes of the season, or both, or some other defecte. In this month of Aprill whilst they were bussie about their seed, their Gov' (Mr. John Carver) came out of the feild very sick, it being a hott day; he complained greatly of his head, and lay downe, and within a few howers his sences failed, so as he never spake more till he dyed, which was within a few days after. Whoss death was much lamented, and caused great heavines amongst them, as ther was cause. He was buried in the best maner they could, with some vollies of shott by all that bore armes; and his wife, being a weak woman, dyed within 5. or 6. weeks after him. Shortly after William Bradford was chosen Gove" in his stead, and being not yet recoverd of his ilnes, in which he had been near the point of death, Isaak Allerton was chosen to be an Asistante unto him, who, by renewed election every year, continued sundry years togeather, which I hear note once for all. 2 May 12. was the first mariage in this place, which, according to the laudable custome of the Low-Cuntries, in which they had lived, was thought most requisite to be performed by the magistrate, as being a civill thing, upon which many questions aboute inheritances doe depende, with other things most proper to their cognizans, and most consonante to the scripturs, Ruth 1 2 1I. e., where the Indians had been accustomed to plant. This was the marriage of Edward Winslow, whose wife had died March 24, 1620/1, with Susanna White, whose husband, William White, had died February 21, 1620/1. 4. and no wher found in the gospell to be layed on the ministers as a part of their office. "This decree or law about mariage was published by the Stats of the Low-Cuntries An°: 1590. That those of any religion, after lawfull and open publication, coming before the magistrats, in the Town or Stat-house, were to be orderly (by them) maried one to another." Petets Hist. fol: 1029.1 And this practiss hath continued amongst, not only them, but hath been followed by all the famous churches of Christ in these parts to this time,-An°: 1646. Haveing in some sorte ordered their bussines at home, it was thought meete to send some abroad to see their new freind Massasoyet, and to bestow upon him some gratuitie to bind him the faster unto them; as also that hearby they might veiw the countrie, and see in what maner he lived, what strength he had aboute him, and how the ways were to his place, if at any time they should have occasion. So the 2. of July they sente Mr. Edward Winslow3 and Mr. Hopkins, with the foresaid 1 1 J. F. le Petit, La Grande Chronique Ancienne et Moderne de Hollande, Zeelande, etc. (Dordrecht, 1601). The province of Holland had established civil marriage in 1580. For an account of the visit to Massasoit, see "Mourt's Relation" in Dexter's reprint, or Arber, Story of the Pilgrim Fathers, pp. 462-473. 3 Edward Winslow was born in Droitwich, Worcestershire, October 19, 1595. He joined the Pilgrim company in Leyden in 1617. While there he engaged in the business of a printer, and married in 1618 Elizabeth Barker of Chester, England. He came with his wife in the Mayflower to Plymouth, where she died March 24, 1620/1. On May 12, 1621, he married Susanna, widow of William White. In 1623 he went to England as the agent of the colony, and returned in the Charity in 1624, bringing the first cattle introduced into the colony. While in England he published a book entitled Good News from New England (London, 1624). In 1633 he was chosen governor of the colony. He visited England again in 1634 and was imprisoned in the Fleet prison; see p. 316. He was again governor in 1636 and 1644. In 1646 he went to England for the fourth time and did not return. At that visit through his influence the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel among the Indians, which is still in existence, was established, in 1649. He published Hypocrisie Unmasked (London, 1646), and the next year published New England's Salamander. In the appendix of Hypocrisie Unmasked he gave an account of the farewell discourse of Robinson concerning new light, which has been much discussed. He was intimate with Cromwell, who consulted him about colonial affairs and issued to him various commissions, in the execution of one of which, for the settlement of Jamaica, |