My explanation of Morton’s statement as to his arrival is, that in it, with his usual recklessness as to facts, he confounded two events which occurred at different dates. He says, _The New English Canaan_ (p. 41), “In the Moneth of Iune, Anno Salutis: 1622. It was my chaunce to arrive in the parts of New England with 30. Servants, and provision of all sorts fit for a plantation.” Here are two facts distinctly stated;--one as to the date of his arrival, exactly coinciding with that of the Weston company;--the other as to the number of “servants,” etc., answering to the description of Wollaston’s company. Morton, I think, therefore, came out with Weston’s company, and left Wessagusset in March, 1623, with them; he then, more than two years later, returned there with Wollaston, probably acting as his guide. When, seven years later, he printed his book, desiring to make his American experience date as far back as possible, he simply confused his two arrivals, and quietly ignored his connection with the Weston company, which had left a very unsavory reputation behind it as being made up of the refuse of mankind. [7] Winslow; Young’s C. of P., p. 297. [8] “A correspondent in Quincy thus describes the place: ‘It is about three miles south-east of the granite church in Quincy, at a place locally called Old Spain.’ Weston’s colony sailed up Fore River, which separates Quincy from Weymouth, and then entered Phillips Creek, and commenced operations on its north bank.” _Russell’s Guide to Plymouth_ (p. 106, n.). [9] Winslow; Young’s C. of P., p. 299. Bradford, p. 130. [10] Bradford, p. 128. [11] Winslow; Young’s C. of P., p. 302. [12] Bradford, p. 130. [13] Pratt’s Petition; IV. Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., v. 4, pp. 486, 7. Bradford, p. 130. Winslow; Young’s C. of P., p. 332. [14] Winslow; Young’s C. of P., p. 328. [15] Winslow; Young’s C. of P., p. 329. [16] Pratt’s Narrative; IV. Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., v. 4, pp. 479, 489. New English Canaan, p. 18; Force’s Tracts, v. 2. [17] Winslow, in his Relation, states that Pratt told them of this execution on his arrival at Plymouth. _Young’s C. of P._ (p. 332); _see, also, Bradford_ (p. 130). But Pratt, in his own Narrative, distinctly says that “we kep him (the malefactor) bound som few days,” but does not mention the execution. _IV. Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll._ (v. 4, p. 482). In his Relation by Mather, however, he states that the real delinquent was put to death. _Ib._ (p. 491). [18] The New English Canaan, p. 74. [19] Hudibras, Part II, Canto II, ll. 409-36. [20] Hist. of Mass., v. 1, p. 6, n.;--for a curious traditionary account of this execution see, also, _Uring’s Voyages_ (pp. 116-18), and _Proceedings of Mass. Hist. Soc. for 1871_ (p. 59). [21] Winslow; Young’s C. of P., p. 336.