[55]This river is not identifiable. It may be an error in copying “Pentagoet,” the French name for the Penobscot.
[56]Flat, open.
[57]Gloucester or Annisquam.
[58]“Anna” in the manuscript.
[59]The Bona Nova was a ship often employed in the Virginia trade. Nothing further is known about Swabber and the dead man.
[60]Indians.
[61]Goods for barter.
[62]Indians who performed the massacre of 1622 in Virginia.
[63]Edward Winslow, who left Plymouth for England on the Anne, Sept. 10, 1623.
[64]The other ship was the Anne, of 140 tons, William Peirce, master. The Company of Adventurers for New Plymouth (sometimes called by variants of this name) was the organization of merchants who helped finance the Plymouth settlement. They “adventured” their money; the Pilgrims were “planters,” although in modern estimation they were more adventurous.