[94]Altham’s nephews, sons of Sir Edward.
[95]See notes 21, 23, 25 to preceding letter.
[96]Old family servants. See preceding letter.
[97]On the Charity.
[98]The troublemaker probably was one of the men drowned in the wreck of the Little James (see below). The sailors of the pinnace, however, had been discontented since early in the voyage. They believed they had signed on for privateering, to get their pay in shares of prize ships. After a near mutiny at Plymouth, Gov. Bradford helped arrange regular wages for them, and kept them on the ship for the exploration of southern New England, but they still insisted that they would not go on a fishing voyage. “A Letter of William Bradford and Isaac Allerton, 1623,” American Historical Review, VIII (1902-03), 296.
[99]William Peirce was to be shipmaster of the Charity on her return voyage. Edward Winslow had returned from England on that ship.
[100]In 1624 all goods in the general storehouse at Plymouth belonged to the Company.
[101]Probably they took supplies from the trading post near the mouth of the Piscataqua River (near modern Portsmouth, N. H.) kept by David Thompson. In his will, Altham left 40s. to a mistress Thomson in New England, presumably the man’s widow, as repayment of a debt she did not know of.
[102]At Damariscove Island, off Maine. The harbor usually gave ships good protection in rough weather.
[103]“A sentence written lengthways in the margin, and not completed.” J. F. Jameson, in Massachusetts Historical Society, Proceedings, XLIV, 184n.