For five weeks they stayed in the ship, while Captain Miles Standish with a small company explored the country. In the third expedition, after an attack from the Indians and much suffering from snow and sleet, Standish's men reached a landing nearly opposite to the point of Cape Cod, which they sounded and "found fit for shipping." There "divers cornfields" and an excellent stream of fresh water encouraged settlement, and they landed, December 11 (Old Style), 1620, near a large bowlder, since known as Plymouth Rock. By the end of the week the Mayflower had brought over her company of emigrants--seventy-three males and twenty-nine females--and December 25, 1620, they began to erect the first house "for the common use to receive them and their goods." The Indian name of the place was Patuxet, but the emigrants called it New Plymouth "after Plymouth, in old England, the last town they left in their native country";[17] and it was a curious coincidence that the spot had already received from John Smith the name of Plymouth. Later the town was called simply Plymouth, while the colony took the name of New Plymouth. [Footnote 1: Smith, _Works_ (Arber's ed.), 699; Bradford, _Plimoth Plantation_, 117.] [Footnote 2: Smith, _Works_ (Arber's ed.), 699-701, 731-742, 745.] [Footnote 3: Gorges, _Description of New England_ (Mass. Hist. Soc., _Collections_, 3d series, VI.), 57.] [Footnote 4: Poore, _Charters and Constitutions_, I., 921. ] [Footnote 5: Cf. Cheyney, _European Background of Am. Hist._, chap. xi.] [Footnote 6: Neal, _Puritans_, I., 149-151, 202; cf. Cheyney, _European Background of Am. Hist._, chap. xii.] [Footnote 7: Neal, _Puritans_, I., 232; Hart, _Source-Book_, No. 15.] [Footnote 8: Bradford, _Plimoth Plantation_, 13.] [Footnote 9: Hunter, _Founders of New Plymouth_.] [Footnote 10: Bradford, _Plimoth Plantation_, 15-29.] [Footnote 11: Ibid., 27.] [Footnote 12: Bradford, _Plimoth Plantation_, 28, 488-493; Mather, _Magnolia_, I., 113.] [Footnote 13: Bradford, _Plimoth Plantation_, 29-38.] [Footnote 14: Brown, _First Republic_, 424.] [Footnote 15: Smith, _Works_ (Arber's ed.), 783; Bradford, _Plimoth Plantation_, 56-58.] [Footnote 16: Bradford, _Plimoth Plantation_, 90-110; Eggleston, _Beginners of a Nation_, 184, note 4.] [Footnote 17: Morton, _New England's Memorial_, 56.] CHAPTER X DEVELOPMENT OF NEW PLYMOUTH (1621-1643)