[281] “It was dated June 1, 1621, and is interesting, as being the first grant made by the great Plymouth company. ’Twas first printed in 1854, in 4th Mass. Hist. Coll., vol. 11. The original is now at Plymouth. ’Tis probably the oldest document in Massachusetts officially connected with her history,” Bradford, Ed. note, pp. 107, 108. [282] Bradford, p. 107, Russell, Morton, Young. [283] Ibid. [284] Bradford, pp. 108, 109. [285] Elliot, Felt, Banvard, Mount in Young. [286] Bradford, p. 108. About twenty-five hundred dollars. [287] Ibid. [288] Palfrey, vol. 1, p. 197. Bradford. [289] Dr. Young has reprinted it in his Chronicles, p. 262, et seq. [290] Cushman, cited in Felt, vol. 1, p. 67. [291] Winslow’s Good News, London, 1624. [292] “Captain Smith describes the Virginia settlers as made up of forty-eight needy ‘gentlemen’ to four carpenters, who were come to do nothing else ‘but dig gold, make gold, refine gold, and load gold.’” Elliot, vol. 1, p. 79, note. [293] Cited in Elliot, vol. 1, pp. 79, 80. [294] Winslow, in Young’s Chronicles. [295] Wilson, p. 389. Felt, vol. 1, p. 67. [296] Smith, New England’s Trials. Prince, vol. 1, p. 115. [297] Bradford, Young. [298] Bradford, Mount in Young, Russell. [299] Ibid. Prince, vol. 1. [300] Bradford, p. 106. [301] Bradford, p. 110. [302] White’s Incidents, etc. [303] White’s Incidents, etc. [304] Palfrey, vol. 1, pp. 187-189. [305] Chap. 7, p. 106. [306] Winslow in Brief Narration, in Hypocrisie Unmasked, p. 393. Also, Palfrey, vol. 1, p. 189, note. [307] Bradford, p. 106. [308] Palfrey, vol. 1, p. 189. [309] Bradford, p. 112. [310] Allen’s Biog. Dict. Thatcher’s Plymouth, p. 77. [311] Chap. 7, p. 108. [312] Morton’s Memorial, Prince’s Annals, Hall’s Plymouth Records. [313] Ibid. [314] Ibid. Elliot, vol. 1, p. 109. [315] Hall, Prince, Thatcher. [316] Elliott, vol. 1, p. 110. [317] Graham, vol. 1. Massachusetts Historical Records. Hazard, vol. 1. [318] Ibid. [319] Thatcher’s Plymouth. [320] Graham, vol. 1, p. 230. [321] Elliot, vol. 1, pp. 112, 113. [322] Plymouth Records. Hazard, vol. 1. [323] Plymouth Records. Hazard, vol. 1. Elliot. [324] Elliot. [325] Thatcher’s Plymouth, Morton’s Memorials, etc. [326] Book of Laws of New Plymouth, 1671. [327] Laws of New Plymouth, cited in Elliot, vol. 1, p. 111. [328] Prince, Annals, vol. 1, pp. 76, 98, 103, 105. Bradford, p. 101. [329] Ibid. [330] Ruth, chap. 4. [331] Bradford, p. 101. [332] Palfrey, vol. 1, p. 196. [333] This seal was dated 1620, and circumscribed with the words, “Sigillum Societatis Plymouth, Nov. Anglia.” [334] Winslow’s Good News from New England. [335] Ibid. [336] Winslow’s Good News from New England. Banvard, p. 70. [337] Winslow in Young. [338] Ibid. Banvard. [339] Winslow in Young, Banvard, Bradford. [340] Winslow in Young, Banvard. [341] Ibid., Bradford. [342] Bradford, pp. 111, 112. [343] Banvard, p. 72. [344] Longfellow’s Miles Standish’s Courtship, pp. 9-12.