Three Visitors to Early Plymouth: Letters about the Pilgrim settlement in New England during its first seven yearsAltham, Emmanuel
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Three Visitors to Early Plymouth: Letters about the Pilgrim settlement in New England during its first seven years
Altham, Emmanuel
Massachusetts -- History -- New Plymouth, 1620-1691
[153]De Rasieres, however, protested to Gov. Bradford that he had not
walked “so far this three or four years, wherefore I fear my feet
will fail me; so I am constrained to entreat you to afford me the
easiest means” to get from the Aptucxet trading post to Plymouth. So
the Governor sent a boat to pick him up at Scusset. Bradford,
“Letter Book,” Mass. Hist. Soc., _Collections_, 1st ser., III, 54.
[154]On an east-and-west line from the outer tip of Cape Cod.
[155]Plymouth Beach. [J. F. J.]
[156]The Gurnet and Saquish Head.
[157]He reverses the actual bearings; and the street first mentioned was
longer, 1,150 feet. [J. F. J.]
[158]A double share. [J. F. J.]
[159]In 1626, Isaac Allerton on behalf of the Plymouth settlers, agreed
to buy the interests of the remaining London Adventurers for £1800,
which De Rasieres translated into guilders by a simple formula. In
July 1627, though De Rasieres may not have been well informed of the
event, a group of leading men in the Colony, led by Bradford, became
“Undertakers” for six years to pay this debt (and about £600 in
other debts owed by the Colony) by means of a monopoly on the
external trade of the settlement, including all dealings with the
Indians. According to the agreement, each colonist who was a Freeman
of the Company (i.e., had agreed to the purchase in 1626 and
acquired rights to a share in the division of lands) made an annual
payment to the Undertakers of three bushels of corn or six pounds of
tobacco as they might specify. Bradford, _Of Plymouth Plantation_,
184-188, 194-196.
Index
A
Allerton, Isaac, 77
animals near Plymouth, 79-80
_Anne_, 23
Annisquam, Massachusetts, 6, 17, 25
Anquam, 6, 17, 25
Aptucxet trading post, 74
Argall, Sir Samuel, 15, 55
_Arms of Amsterdam, The_, 65
B
Bacco, Terrill, 51
birds near Plymouth, 10, 11, 78-80
Bradford, William, 29, 31, 43, 44, 47, 49, 50, 63, 76-78
Brewer, Thomas, 51
Bridge, James, 21, 42, 43, 48, 52
C
Canonicus, 12
Capawack, _see_ Martha’s Vineyard
Cape Ann, 6, 17, 42-44, 46, 54
Cape Cod, 5, 11, 14, 16, 74
_Charity_, 42
Clarke, John, 5
Cod Island, 15
Cohasset, Massachusetts, 11
Collier, William, 51
Corbitant, 12
Company of Adventurers for New Plymouth, 21-24, 30, 32, 35, 43,
47, 51, 53-56, 77
Council for New England, 4, 15, 55
Cushman, Robert, 51
D
Damariscove Island, 15, 25, 44
Damerill’s Cove, _see_ Damariscove Island
Dawson, Thomas, 49
Dermer, Thomas, 12, 27
_Discovery_, 5
Dutch in North America, 12, 26, 36, 63, 65, 67-69
Dutch West India Company, 63, 64, 68
E
Eastham, Massachusetts, 11
Epenow, 12, 27
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