[37] Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation, ed. Morison, 94; idem, History, ed. Ford, I, 268n. gives £400 as total value of the cargo seized; this included some clapboards. The literary result of Morton’s ignominious departure, The New English Canaan (1637), satirizes the “saints” at Plymouth, ibid., II, 75–77. Nathaniel C. Hale, Pelts and Palisades (Richmond, Va., 1959) included a lively narrative of Plymouth’s fur trade, showing little interest in its business end and letting by a few inaccuracies. Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation, 119, 163, 176, 178; Bradford, “Letter Book,” 36, on amounts collected; ibid., 112, 183, on boats.
[38] See Percival Hall Lombard, The Aptucxet Trading Post (Bourne, Mass.: Bourne Historical Soc., 1943) for description of that post. A reconstruction has been erected on the site. On the visit of de Rasieres, Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation, ed. Morison, 202, 203 and App. VI; Bradford, “Letter Book,” 51–55; J. F. Jameson, ed., Narratives of New Netherland, 1609–1664 (New York, 1909), 110, 112.
[39] Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation, ed. Morison, 200, 215–216, 242, 262, 384–385; Goodwin, Pilgrim Republic, 337–340; see text of patent and map in Henry S. Burrage, The Beginnings of Colonial Maine (Portland, 1914), 186–187; money spent for patent, 3 Mass. Hist. Soc. Colls., I, 199.
[40] “Isaac Allerton,” New Eng. Hist. Gen. Reg., XLIV, 290–296; Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation, ed. Morison, 202, 198; 3 Mass. Hist. Soc. Colls., I, 200; see also Bradford, History, ed. Ford, II, opp. 79; Winthrop Papers, II, 262, 205, 317, 329, 334–335, and III, 2, 4, 102; Bradford, “Letter Book,” 69.
[41] Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation, ed. Morison, 216–217; Bradford, “Letter Book,” 71. Morison reads this “peddle,” op. cit., 385.
[42] Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation, ed. Morison, 219–220, 386–387, 22, 228; Winthrop’s Journal, ed. Hosmer, I, 65, 66. Morison’s note on page 226, by its placement, is confusing in identifying Mr. Peirce’s ship as the White Angel. He correctly states further in the note that Peirce was master of the Lyon, which arrived in Massachusetts in February 1631, Winthrop’s Journal, I, 57.
[43] Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation, ed. Morison, 229, 230, 237, 232, 238–244; Thomas Lechford, Notebook, Archaeologia Americana, VII (Cambridge, 1885), 189–190, Allerton’s 1639 testimony on the White Angel and Friendship.
[44] Allerton appears often in Winthrop’s Journal, and in Winthrop Papers, II, III; in Plymouth’s tax list and as an official, Records of Plymouth Colony, eds. N. B. Shurtleff, et al. (Boston, 1855–61), 1, 9, 21, 52. Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation, ed. Morison, 241n., 244, 245, 250–251, 392. “Plymouth Colony, Wills and Inventories” (typescript), 1620–39, 4, 5; 1641–49, 44, for debts to Allerton. Allerton gave permission for his brother-in-law’s debts to be settled first with his other creditors, Recs. Plymouth Col., I, 20. Winthrop Papers, III, 437, July 1, 1637, Winslow’s remarks. For an estimate less harsh than Bradford’s see Andrews, Col. Per. Amer. Hist., I, 288–289, 289n.
[45] Bradford said the beaver yielded 14s. to 20s. a pound. On one occasion, however, the arrival of “the plimouth merchants great parcel ... brought down the price,” Winthrop Papers, III, 150. See also Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation, ed. Morison, 238, 243, 390, 250, Winslow’s refusal to accept the debts of White Angel, and Sherley’s reaction; 288–289, quantities of furs, 1631 to 1636; 392, 250, Sherley’s remarks on Allerton; 255n., Peirce’s ship; 287, plague and low prices; Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., XLV, 619–620, Sherley’s doubts as to who sent the furs.
[46] This contradicts Sherley’s letter to Bradford, Sept. 14, 1636, Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation, ed. Morison, 287, 288. The bill of complaint in Chancery and Sherley’s answer are in Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., XLV, 611–623. Minor errors of form in transcription called to my attention by Mrs. A. W. Millard, may be corrected by consulting photostats of the original, P.R.O., C. 2, A/44/43, deposited at Pilgrim Hall, Plymouth, Mass.