The Wampanoags in the seventeenth century

by Catherine Marten

[8] Vaughan, p. 53.

[9] Emmanuel Altham, “Emmanuel Altham to Sir Edward Altham, September, 1623”, THREE VISITORS TO EARLY PLYMOUTH, Sydney V. James, Jr., ed. (Plimoth Plantation, 1963), p. 29; Gookin, p. 158.

[10] Altham, p. 29.

[11] Gookin, p. 158.

[12] Figures on Wampanoag population, unlike the case for several other New England groups, are not abundant. This is the only estimate found by the author; Leach, p. 1.

[13] Mooney, p. 3.

[14] Ibid.

[15] Vaughan, p. 28.

[16] In actual fact, exposure to the sun, the usual coating of grease, and an inevitable layer of dust must have altered skin color somewhat.

[17] Willoughby, pp. 230-31.