The founding of New England

by James Truslow Adams

[225]. The compact is in Bradford, Plymouth, pp. 89 f.; the list of signers in Morton, Memorial, p. 26.

[226]. Cf. Osgood, American Colonies, vol. I, p. 291.

[227]. Dexter, England and Holland, p. 650.

[228]. The celebration of “Forefathers Day,” for many years, on Dec. 22, was due to a mistake in transposing Old-Style dates into New. In any case, there was, of course, no such “landing” of the whole company as appears in popular tradition.

[229]. Bradford, Plymouth, p. 88.

[230]. The nature of the disease is unknown. It was evidently neither yellow fever nor smallpox, as some have thought, and white men were not affected, even when they slept in the same huts with the Indians. Cf. C. F. Adams, Three Episodes in Massachusetts History (Boston, 1893), vol. I, pp. 1-4.

[231]. The treaty is in Bradford, Plymouth, pp. 94 ff. The minor incidents in connection with Plymouth in this chapter, when references are not given, are all taken from Bradford, or Bradford and Winslow, the latter as given in Young's Chronicles.

[232]. Bradford, Plymouth, pp. 102 ff.; Young, Chronicles, pp. 202-14, 218-23.

[233]. Bradford, Plymouth, pp. 105 ff.; Young, Chronicles, pp. 234 ff.

[234]. Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., Series IV, vol. II, pp. 158 ff.