clear himself the better, mov’d those Lords that were the chief Actors in the Business, to resign their Grand Patent to the King, and pass particular Patents to themselves of such part of the Countrey along the Sea-Coast, as might be sufficient for them: To this Motion there being a general Assent given by the Lords, and a Day appointed for the conclusion thereof, an Act was made for the Resignation of the Patent, alloting to each Man their several Bounds. From the uttermost parts began the Limits of the Lord _Mougrave_, and ended at _Hudson_’s _River_. To the Eastward of which River, for the space of sixty Miles in length, was placed the Duke of _Richmond_’s Assignment: Next to him was setled the Earl of _Carlile_: Next him the Lord _Edward Gorges_: Next the Marquess of _Hamilton_: Then Captain _John Mason_: And lastly his own, which extended to the great River _Sagadehoc_, being sixty Miles, and so up into the Main Land a hundred and twenty Miles, which he was pleas’d to call by the Name of _The Province of Main_. The Landing of the _English_ in _Plymouth_ Plantation was very much facilitated by the great Mortality that hapned amongst the _Indians_ about that time, amongst the _Pecods_, _Narragansets_, _Nianticks_, _Tarantines_, _Wippanaps_, and those of _Abargini_, _Agissawang_, and _Pockanekie_, their _Powwows_, or Doctors, seeing with amazement their _Wigwams_, or Streets, lie full of dead Bodies, and in vain expecting help from _Squantam_ their good, or _Abbamoch_ their bad God. Not long before, that blazing Comet, so much talk’d of in _Europe_, apppear’d after Sun-setting in their Horizon South-West for the space of thirty Sleeps, (for so they reckon their Days). They Landed at first with little or no resistance, a handful of Men onely being sent before to keep possession for their Companions, who arriv’d eight days after; when the Natives appearing with their Bowes and Arrows, let flie their long Shafts amongst them; whereupon one Captain _Miles Standish_ with his Fowling-piece shot the stoutest _Sachem_ amongst the _Indians_, as he was reaching an Arrow from his Quiver; which the rest seeing, fled into the Woods and Thickets. The same Year the _Merchant-Adventurers_ in _England_ sent forth store of Servants to provide against the Wants of that place; amongst whom came over a mix’d Multitude, who setled themselves in the Bosom of the Cape now call’d _Gloucester_.