[124]Argall, formerly associated with the Virginia Company, had become a leading member of the Council for New England. Other Council members took grants of land for themselves; Argall may have planned to, but he died on an English expedition to attack Cadiz in 1626.
[125]Because of the debts contracted in their name by their agents and the London merchants, the Plymouth settlers had to remain in the Company as reorganized by a minority of the Adventurers headed by James Sherley. Between July and October, 1626, Isaac Allerton, as the colony’s agent, arranged a deal to buy the interests of the remaining Adventurers (including Altham) on an installment plan. Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation, 182-186; Bradford, “Letter Book,” Mass. Hist. Soc., Collections, 1st ser., III, 48.
[126]Wary, circumspect.
[127]Hawtry’s son-in-law, a lawyer.
[128]Plymouth, England.
[129]Blommaert was a merchant in Amsterdam and a director of the West India Company, 1622-29, 1636-42.
[130]The official name of the Hudson River for several years (named after Maurice, Prince of Orange). “Mauritse” in the original.
[131]Sandy Hook. [J. F. J.]
[132]Sandy Hook Bay. [J. F. J.]
[133]The Narrows, between Staten Island and Brooklyn.