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[386]Palfrey, vol. 1, p. 200. Prince, Thatcher.

[387]Banvard.

[388]Ibid.

[389]Thatcher, Winslow in Young.

[390]Ibid.

[391]Banvard.

[392]Banvard, Bradford.

[393]Thatcher, Winslow in Young.

[394]Bradford.

[395]Ibid.

[396]Cited in Russell’s Guide to Plymouth, p. 143.

[397]Winslow in Young. Thatcher, Bradford.

[398]Prince, Hubbard, Banvard.

[399]Cotton Mather, Magnalia, vol. 1, p. 66.

[400]Winslow in Young. Bradford, p. 131.

[401]Ibid.

[402]Ibid. Banvard, p. 95.

[403]Banvard, Winslow’s Good News, etc.

[404]“Mr. Baylies, in his Memoirs of Plymouth, assumes that this was the great Hampden, vol. 1, p. 410. I find no facts sufficient to sustain that opinion.” Elliot, vol. 1, p. 93, note.

[405]Elliot, Banvard, Winslow.

[406]Winslow’s Good News.

[407]Ibid.

[408]Winslow’s Good News.

[409]Banvard, pp. 95, 96.

[410]Winslow’s Good News.

[411]Ibid.

[412]Winslow’s Good News.

[413]Ibid.

[414]Banvard, pp. 101, 102.

[415]Ibid.

[416]Banvard, p. 102.

[417]Winslow’s Good News.

[418]Bradford, p. 131.

[419]Bradford, pp. 130, 131.

[420]Winslow’s Good News.

[421]Banvard.

[422]Banvard, p. 116.

[423]Ibid.

[424]Ibid.

[425]Shakspeare.

[426]Winslow, cited in Banvard, p. 120.

[427]Winslow, Elliot, Palfrey.

[428]Ibid.

[429]Winslow, Bradford, Thatcher.

[430]Winslow, Bradford, Thatcher.

[431]Morton, Young’s Chronicles.

[432]Bancroft, Hist. United States, vol. 1, p. 319.

[433]Fountain’s Rewards of Virtue.

[434]Bradford, p. 133.

[435]Winslow in Young. Banvard.

[436]Bradford, pp. 133, 134.

[437]In the latter part of 1623, Weston went to Virginia; thence he returned to England, where he disappears from history. Palfrey, vol. 1, p. 207.

[438]Judge Davis, note on Morton’s Memorial.

[439]Winslow in Young, p. 346. Palfrey, Thatcher, etc.

[440]Winslow in Young, p. 346. Palfrey, Thatcher, Banvard, etc.

[441]Bradford, pp. 135, 136.

[442]Ibid., p. 136.

[443]Bradford, p. 136.

[444]White’s Incidents, p. 41.

[445]Winslow in Young.

[446]White’s Incidents, p. 42.

[447]Banvard, Thatcher, Morton’s Memorial.

[448]Chap. 10, p. 137.

[449]Bancroft, vol. 1, p. 320. Bradford, p. 138.

[450]Morton’s Memorial, pp. 95-97. Palfrey, vol. 1, pp. 210, 211.

[451]“Pierce sold his patent for five hundred pounds; he gave fifty for it.” Banvard, p. 133. See Palfrey,ut antea, on this point.

[452]Cotton Mather’s Magnalia, vol. 1, p. 60.

[453]Cited in extenso in Bradford, pp. 139, 140.

[454]Bradford, p. 141. Winslow in Young.

[455]Banvard, p. 134.

[456]Morton’s Memorial, Thatcher, Palfrey.

[457]Bradford, p. 146.

[458]Palfrey, vol. 1, pp. 211, 212.

[459]Mather’s Magnalia, vol. 1, p. 60.

[460]Palfrey, vol. 1, p. 212, note.

[461]Bradford, p. 145.

[462]Ibid., pp. 145, 146.

[463]Prince, Morton’s Memorial, Bradford, Thatcher’s Plymouth.

[464]Bradford, p. 147.

[465]Ibid.

[466]Bradford, p. 148.

[467]Felt, Hist. New England, Prince, Bradford.

[468]Felt, Bradford, Morton’s Memorial, etc.

[469]Felt, vol. 1, p. 77.

[470]Bradford, p. 149.

[471]Ibid. Morton’s Memorial.

[472]Ibid.

[473]Felt.

[474]Ibid. Bradford, Morton’s Memorial.

[475]Felt, vol. 1, p. 78.

[476]Cited in Felt,ut antea.

[477]“There were also this year some scattering beginnings made in other places, as at Piscataway, by Mr. David Thompson, who was sent over by Mason and Gorges, at Monhegin, and some other places by sundry others.” Bradford, p. 154.

[478]Prince, Bradford, Pilgrims’ Journal.

[479]Bradford, pp. 156, 157.

[480]Seneca’s Epis. 123.

[481]Phillips’ Letters and Speeches, p. 372.

[482]Prince, Bradford.

[483]Morton’s Memorial.

[484]Thatcher’s Plymouth, p. 111.

[485]Morton’s Memorial, p. 103.

[486]Palfrey, vol. 1, p. 215.

[487]Bradford, pp. 159, 160, 167.

[488]Palfrey, vol. 1, pp. 216-219.

[489]Psalm 10:10.

[490]Jeremiah 41:6.

[491]Bradford, p. 171.

[492]Ibid.

[493]Ibid., p. 172.

[494]Bradford, p. 172. Morton’s Memorial, p. 112.

[495]Ibid.

[496]Bradford, p. 173.

[497]Bradford, p. 173.

[498]Bradford, p. 175.

[499]Ibid.

[500]He had a wife and four children. Bradford, p. 175, editor’s note.

[501]Ibid, pp. 175, 176.

[502]Ibid.

[503]Bradford, pp. 175, 176.

[504]Ibid., p. 182.

[505]Palfrey, vol. 1, p. 221, note. Morton’s Memorial, p. 117, note.

[506]Ibid.

[507]Bradford.

[508]Palfrey, vol. 1, p. 221.

[509]Winslow, quoted in Palfrey,ut antea.

[510]Thatcher, Prince, Palfrey, Bradford.

[511]Bradford, p. 190.

[512]Ibid., p. 192. Morton’s Memorial, p. 120.

[513]Ibid.

[514]Bradford, p. 192. Morton’s Memorial, p. 120.

[515]Ibid.

[516]Cheever’s Journal, p. 327. Morton’s Memorial.

[517]Bradford, p. 189.

[518]Ibid., p. 188.

[519]Elliot, vol. 1, pp. 119, 120.

[520]Ibid., p. 116. Prince’s Chronology. Thatcher’s Plymouth.

[521]A Brief Review of the Rise and Progress of New England. London, 1774.

[522]Elliot, vol. 1, p. 135.

[523]Morton, Prince, Hazard, Bradford, Thatcher, Banvard.

[524]Bradford, pp. 202, 203.

[525]Palfrey, vol. 1, p. 224.

[526]Hazard, Bradford, Palfrey.

[527]Ibid.

[528]Bradford, p. 207.

[529]Palfrey, vol. 1, p. 225.

[530]Banvard, p. 151.

[531]Elliot’s Biog. Dict.

[532]Young’s Chronicles, p. 481.

[533]“It is not certain where he lies buried; George Sumner thinks in St. Peter’s church, Leyden.” Elliot, Hist. New Eng., vol. 1, p. 125, note.

[534]Stoughton, Heroes of Puritan Times, p. 102.

[535]Bancroft, vol. 1, p. 321.

[536]Smith’s General History, p. 247.

[537]Palfrey, vol. 1, pp. 221, 222.

[538]Bradford, p. 204.

[539]Pliny, lib. 18, chap. 2.

[540]Bradford, p. 168.

[541]Palfrey, vol. 1, p. 225.

[542]Ibid.

[543]Bradford, Morton’s Memorial.

[544]Felt, Hist. New England, vol. 1, p. 91.

[545]These were Bradford, Brewster, Standish, Allerton, Fuller, Jeremy, Alden, Howland. Prince, Bradford, Hazard, etc.

[546]Bradford, pp. 212, 213. Palfrey.

[547]Ibid., p. 214.

[548]Bradford, p. 214.

[549]Ibid., p. 214. Morton’s Memorial.

[550]Ibid.

[551]Ibid.

[552]Palfrey, vol. 1, p. 229.

[553]Elliot, vol. 1, p. 85.

[554]Bradford, p. 226.

[555]The names of the formers of the trade were: Bradford, Brewster, Standish, Prince, Alden, Howland, and Allerton. Prince had come out in the “Fortune,” all the rest in the “Mayflower.” Palfrey.

[556]Hazard, Prince, Cheever’s Journal, Thatcher.

[557]These were James Shirley—who became their English agent—John Beauchamp, Richard Andrews, and T. Hathaway—“the glue of the old company.” Mass. Hist. Coll., vol. 3, p. 34.

[558]Palfrey, vol. 1, p. 230.

[559]Thatcher, Prince, Morton’s Memorial.

[560]Cheever’s Journal. Bradford, p. 243.

[561]Mather’s Magnalia, vol. 1, p. 62.

[562]Cited in Mather’s Magnalia, vol. 1, pp. 62, 63.

[563]Bancroft, vol. 1, p. 321.

[564]Felt’s Hist. of New England, vol. 1, p. 95.

[565]“The Dutch had trading in those southern parts divers years before the English came, but they began no plantation until afterthe Pilgrims came and were here seated.” Morton’s Memorial,p. 133, note.

[566]Davis’ New Amsterdam, Booth’s History of New York City, Bradford.

[567]Bradford, p. 222,et seq.

[568]In Roger Williams’ Key, wampum is considered as Indian money, and is described in the twenty-fourth chapter of that interesting tract. Theirwhitemoney they calledwampum, which signifieswhite; theirblack,suckawhack, sucki signifyingblack. Hist. Col., vol. 3, p. 231.

[569]Mr. Gookin says: “Wampum is made chiefly by the Narragansett Block Island Indians. Upon the sandy flats and shores of those coasts the wilk shell are found.” Hist. Col., vol. 1, p. 152.

[570]Bradford, p. 234.

[571]Mr. Brodhead, who obtained this valuable letter, only summarized in the text, from the archives at the Hague, gives it in full in the New York Hist. Col., sec. series, vol. 2, p. 343,et seq.

[572]Prince, vol. 1, p. 160. Deane’s Scituate, p. 332. “Mrs. Robinson, widow of Rev. John Robinson, came over with the latter company, with her son Isaac, and perhaps with another son.” Editorial note in Bradford, p. 247. “There was an Abraham Robinson early at Gloucester, who is surmised to have been a son of the Leyden minister.” Ibid. It has been thought that Mrs. Robinson did not remain in Plymouth, but went to Salem, “where was a Mrs. Robinson very early.” MS. Letters of J. J. Babson, Esq., of Gloucester, Mass.

[573]Bradford, pp. 247, 248.

[574]Bradford, pp. 247, 248.

[575]Ibid., p. 249.

[576]Bradford’s Letter-Book, in Mass. Hist. Col., vol. 3, pp. 69, 70.

[577]Palfrey, vol. 1, p. 233.

[578]Bradford, p. 236.

[579]Morton’s Memorial, pp. 137, 138.

[580]Bradford, Morton’s Memorial, etc.

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