FOOTNOTES
[1] Winslow’s Briefe Narrative, p. 31.
[2] Bradford, 25, 26.
[3] Works of Sir Walter Raleigh.
[4] Mourt’s Narrative.
[5] Mourt’s Narrative.
[6] A musket with a flint lock.
[7] Johnson’s Wonder Working Providence.
[8] Note to Young’s Chronicles of the Pilgrims.
[9] A Duck.
[10] Mourt’s Relation.
[11] The bill of mortality, according to Prince, which he copied from Bradford, was as follows: In December, six died; in January, eight; in February, seventeen; in March, thirteen; total, forty-four.
[12] Made of maize or Indian corn.
[13] James I., then King of England, had been a widower for about a year.
[14] This was probably the fish called tataug.
[15] Abbott’s Life of King Philip.
[16] Mr. Drake, in his History of Boston, supposes that the “cliff” alluded to must have been that pile of rocks now called “the chapel,” in Quincy Bay.
[17] The Fortune.
[18] It will be remembered that, as half of their number had died, seven houses accommodated the survivors.
[19] Morton, in his New English Canaan, writes: “There is a fish, by some called shads, that at the spring of the year pass up the rivers to spawn in the ponds, and are taken in such multitudes in every river that hath a pond at the end, that the inhabitants dung their ground with them. You may see in one township a hundred acres together set with these fish, every acre taking a thousand of them. And an acre thus dressed will produce and yield so much corn as three acres without fish.”
It was the rule of the Indians to plant their corn when the leaves of the white oak were as big as the ear of a mouse. They put two or three fishes in every cornhill.
[20] Probably Martha’s Vineyard, then called Capawock.
[21] Subsequently Mr. Winslow wrote, correcting this statement: “Whereas, myself and others, in former letters, wrote that the Indians about us are a people without any religion or knowledge of any God, therein I erred, though we could then gather no better.”—Winslow’s Good News.
[22] There is some uncertainty about this word, but this is probably the true reading.
[23] Mr. George Morton, to whom this letter was addressed, came out in the next ship, the Ann, which sailed from London about the last of April, 1622.
[24] Memoir of the Colony of Plymouth, by Francis Baylies. Part the First, page 91.
[25] Winslow in Young; p. 290.
[26] History of Plymouth Plantation, by William Bradford, p. 127.
[27] Young’s Chronicles of the Pilgrims, p. 295.
[28] Mr. Weston had formerly befriended the plantation at Plymouth.
[29] Winslow in Young, p. 297.
[30] Young’s Chronicles; p. 299.
[31] Young’s Chronicles, p. 310.
[32] Young’s Chronicles, p. 318.
[33] Young’s Chronicles, p. 320.
[34] Bradford’s Plymouth Plantation; p. 130.
[35] Bradford in Prince, p. 216.
[36] Young’s Chronicles, p. 349
[37] Bradford’s Plymouth Plantation, p. 135.
[38] Bradford’s Plymouth Plantation, p. 211.
[39] Baylies’ Memoir of Plymouth Colony, p. 140.
[40] Blake’s Plymouth Colony, p. 153.
[41] Life of Elder William Brewster, p. 335.
[42] Higginson’s New England Plantation, p. 123.
[43] Bradford’s Plymouth Plantation.
[44] The name of the man thus shot was John Talbot.
[45] Bradford’s Plymouth Plantation, p. 321.
[46] Bradford’s Plymouth Plantation, p. 339.
[47] Bradford’s Plymouth Plantation, p. 363.
[48] Memoir of Plymouth Colony, by Francis Baylies, p. 249.
[49] There is a little uncertainty whether Elder Brewster died in the year 1640 or 1644.
[50] Morton says, “He was fourscore and four years of age.”
[51] Memoir of New Plymouth, by Francis Baylies, part i, p. 277.