[Footnote 3: Mass. Hist. Soc., _Collections_, 4th series, II., 158-163.] [Footnote 4: Bradford, _Plimoth Plantation_, 130-133; Winslow, "Relation," in Young, _Chronicles of the Pilgrims_, 280-284.] [Footnote 5: Bradford, _Plimoth Plantation_, 149-168; _Cal. of State Pap., Col._, 1574-1660, p. 40.] [Footnote 6: Gorges, _Description of New England_ (Mass. Hist. Soc., _Collections_, 3d series, VI., 80).] [Footnote 7: _Cal. of State Pap., Col._, 1574-1660, p. 33.] [Footnote 8: Bradford, _Plimoth Plantation_, 170.] [Footnote 9: Maine Hist. Soc., _Collections_, 2d. series, VII., 73-76.] [Footnote 10: Adams, _Three Episodes of Mass. Hist._, I., 152.] [Footnote 11: Bradford, _Plimoth Plantation_, 238.] [Footnote 12: Palfrey, _New England_, I., 222, 285.] [Footnote 13: Hubbard, _New England_ (Mass. Hist. Soc., _Collections_, 2d series, VI., 110).] [Footnote 14: Bradford, _Plimoth Plantation_, 237; _Planters' Plea_ (Force, _Tracts_, II., No. iii.).] [Footnote 15: Bradford, _Plimoth Plantation_, 237-258.] [Footnote 16: Ibid., 248.] [Footnote 17: Hazard, _State Papers_, I., 298.] [Footnote 18: Bradford, _Letter-Book_ (Mass. Hist. Soc., _Collections_, 1st series, III., 63); _Plimoth Plantation_, 284-292.] [Footnote 19: Bradford, _Letter-Book_ (Mass. Hist. Soc., _Collections_, 1st series, III., 53).] [Footnote 20: Bradford, _Plimoth Plantation_, 350.] [Footnote 21: Winthrop, _New England_, I., 139.] [Footnote 22: Bradford, _Plimoth Plantation_, 395-401.] [Footnote 23: _Plymouth Col. Records_, I., 133.] [Footnote 24: Bradford, _Plimoth Plantation_, 437-444.] [Footnote 25: Palfrey, _New England_, I., 223, II., 6; Hazard, _State Papers_, I., 300.] [Footnote 26: Bradford, _Plimoth Plantation_, 459.] [Footnote 27: Bradford, _Plimoth Plantation_, 444.] [Footnote 28: Ibid., 122.] [Footnote 29: Ibid., 187.] [Footnote 30: Palfrey, _New England_, II., 8.] [Footnote 31: Ibid. In August, 1643, the number of males of military age was 627.] [Footnote 32: Brigham, _Plymouth Charter and Laws_, 43, 244.] [Footnote 33: Palfrey, _New England_, II., 7; Howard, _Local Constitutional History_, 50-99.] [Footnote 34: Bradford, _Plimoth Plantation_, 314, 418, 419.] CHAPTER XI GENESIS OF MASSACHUSETTS (1628-1630) The abandonment, in 1626, of their colony at Cape Ann by the Dorchester adventurers, did not cause connection to be entirely severed either in America or in England. In America, Conant and three of the more industrious settlers remained, but as the fishery was abandoned, they withdrew with the cattle from the exposed promontory at Cape Ann to Naumkeag, afterwards Salem.[1] In England a few of the adventurers, loath to give up entirely, sent over more cattle, and the enterprise, suddenly attracting other support, rose to a greater promise than had ever been anticipated.[2]