[104]Bradford’s Of Plymouth Plantation sets the date of this embarkation as 18 September 1621.
[105]I. e., Boston Harbor.
[106]Presumably, the Abnaki, an Algonquian tribe of eastern Maine.
[107]Presumably, the widow of Nanepashemet.
[108]The following appears to be a covering letter which may have accompanied the manuscript journal when it was sent from Plymouth. Perhaps the “loving and old friend” of the author is George Morton, who presumably edited the relations for publication. See [Introduction].
[109]The Fortune, first to follow the Mayflower.
[110]I. e., the preceding five narratives.
[111]The following is the earliest description of the first Thanksgiving. The dates are not specified, nor is there specific mention of turkeys as comprising part of the feast, although they doubtless did.
[112]The author here probably refers to the following document which was printed in 1669, in Morton’s New England’s Memorial:
“September 13, Anno Dom. 1621.