[21] N.Y. Hist. Colls., I., 54-55, 59.

[22] Smith, Generall Historie (Richmond, 1819), I., 87-8, 182, 199; Strachey's Travaile into Virginia, 157 (Hakluyt Soc. VI.); Parkman, Pioneers, 230.

[23] Bradford, Plymouth Plantation.

[24] Bradford, 104.

[25] E.g., Plymouth Records, I., 50, 54, 62, 119; II., 10; Massachusetts Colonial Records, I., 55, 81, 96, 100, 322; II., 86, 138; III., 424; V., 180; Hazard, Historical Collections, II., 19 (the Commissioners of the United Colonies propose giving the monopoly of the fur trade to a corporation). On public truck-houses, vide post, p. 58.

[26] Bradford, 108, gives the proceeds of the sale of these furs.

[27] Force, Collections, Vol. I., No. 5, p. 53.

[28] Weeden, I., 132, 160-1.

[29] Winthrop, History of New England, I., 111, 131.

[30] Connecticut Colonial Records, 1637, pp. 11, 18.