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Three Visitors to Early Plymouth / Letters about the Pilgrim settlement in New England during its first seven years

Chapter 21: Transcriber’s Notes
By Emmanuel Altham
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A collection of three visitor letters records candid observations of an early New England settlement during its first years, combining descriptive travel report and commercial assessment. The writers describe village layout, fortifications, population health, agricultural and maritime resources, abundant fisheries, fur and timber prospects, and local plants valued for export. They note trade arrangements and encounters with Indigenous peoples, detail daily life and defensive measures, and offer practical recommendations for profitable ventures such as fishing, saltmaking, and fur trading, balancing admiration for natural bounty with cautious appraisal of economic opportunity.

Index

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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
F
Ferrar, John, 5
fish and fishing, near Plymouth, 7-10, 14, 25, 38, 75-76;
off northern New England, 14, 25, 42-44, 54-56
Fletcher, Thomas, 22
French in New England and Canada, 12, 13, 15-16, 32
fur trade in New England, 26, 36, 58, 74
G
Gardiner, Richard, 47
Gibbs, John, 14
Gloucester, Massachusetts, 6, 25
Goffe, Thomas, 22
Gorges, Sir Ferdinando, 12, 15, 27
H
Hawes, Nathaniel, 33, 57
Hobomok, 29, 31
Hopewell, 54, 57
Hudson River, 12, 15, 26, 65-68
Hunt, Thomas, 11-12
I
Indians near Plymouth, 11-13, 16-18, 27-32, 77-79
Isles of Shoals, 25
J
Jenny, John, 24
Jones, Christopher, 5
Jones, Thomas, 5, 10
L
Little James, 21, 22, 42-50
Lyford, John, 53, 54
M
Marshall, John, 51
Martha’s Vineyard, 11-12, 27
Massachusetts Indians, 30-31
Massasoit, 11, 29-31
minerals on New England coast, 17, 27
Mohawk Indians, 13
Monhegan Island, 14, 25, 27, 32
N
Narragansett Indians, 12
New Amsterdam, 67, 68
New Netherland, description of, 65-69;
Indians of, 66, 67, 69-73
Norwood, Richard, 4
O
Odoric of Pordenone, 8
P
Pamet, 6, 11
Patuxet, see Plymouth
Peirce, William, 23, 42-44, 50, 54, 57
Pemaquid, 25
Pemberton, ——, 53, 54, 56
Pemberton, Rev. John, 53
Plymouth [New Plymouth] in New England, crops grown at, 28;
description of, 6-11, 24-32, 36-37, 75-78;
economic prospects of, 37-40, 49, 51;
fire at in 1623, 37;
Indian claims to, 6, 29
Pocanocket, 11, 12
Pocock [Pocop], John, 51
Prinaquie River, 16
Purchas, Rev. Samuel, 33
S
Sagadahoc, 15, 25
salt-making near Plymouth, 27
Sandys, Sir Edwin, 5
Sherley, James, 35, 56-58
Sherley, John, 51
Squanto [Tisquanto], 12, 13
Standish, Miles, 31
Susquehanna Indians, 13
T
Tapper, Richard, 57
Thompson, David, 44
Thornell [Thorrell], John, 51
timber in New England, 26
Truro, Massachusetts, 11
V
vegetation, near Plymouth, 10, 26, 30;
on New England coast, 16
Vengham, William, 14
Virginia, 3, 11, 15, 16, 27
Virginia Company of London, 3, 5, 14
W
wampum, 63, 69-71, 73
Wessagussett, 15, 30, 31
Weston, Thomas, 30, 31
Winslow, Edward, 23, 43, 44, 51, 58
Y
Yeardley, Sir George, 3, 5

THREE VISITORS TO EARLY PLYMOUTH

About the Author and the Book

Sydney V. James was born in Chicago in 1929 and graduated from Harvard College in 1950. Specializing in the American colonial period as a student of Professor Samuel Eliot Morison, he worked intensively on the history of the Plymouth Colony. He was awarded the degrees of A.M. (1951) and Ph.D. (1958) in history at Harvard University. Mr. James’ thesis, written under the supervision of Oscar Handlin, has been published by the Harvard University Press as A People Among Peoples: Quaker Benevolence in Eighteenth-Century America. He has authored articles for the Bulletin of Friends Historical Association and the William and Mary Quarterly.

Mr. James is presently an Assistant Professor at the University of Oregon, having taught previously at Kent State University and Brown University. In 1950, he married Jean Wooster Middleton. They have two children: Samuel, 10, and Catherine, 7.

THREE VISITORS TO EARLY PLYMOUTH was designed and printed by The Stinehour Press of Lunenburg, Vermont for Plimoth Plantation, Plymouth, Massachusetts. The type used is Monotype Bulmer and the paper is Warren’s Olde Style.

Transcriber’s Notes

  • Silently corrected a few typos.
  • Retained publication information from the printed edition: this eBook is public-domain in the country of publication.
  • In the text versions only, text in italics is delimited by _underscores_.