This narrative is followed in Strachey’s Historie of Travaile, book ii. ch. 6. Thornton in notes c and d to his speech “Colonial Schemes of Popham and Gorges,” at the Popham celebration, enumerates the evidences of the intended permanency of Gosnold’s settlement.
The site of Gosnold’s fort on Cuttyhunk was identified in 1797 (see Belknap’s American Biography), and again in 1817 (North American Review, v. 313) and 1848 (Thornton’s Cape Anne, p. 21).—Ed.]
[368] 3 Mass. Hist. Coll., vol. viii. This reprint was made from a manuscript copy sent from England by Colonel Aspinwall. Proceedings, ii. 116.
[369] Purchas his Pilgrimes, iv. 1651; also in 3 Mass. Hist. Coll., viii. [A French translation of the accounts of Gosnold’s and Pring’s voyages appeared at Amsterdam, in 1715, in Bernard’s Receuil de Voiages au Nord; and in 1720, in Relations de la Louisiane, etc.—Sabin’s Dictionary, ii. p. 102.—Ed.]
[370] [This Versameling was issued in 1706-7 at Leyden in two forms, octavo and folio, from the same type, the octavo edition giving the voyages chronologically, the folio, by nations. It was reissued with a new title in 1727. Muller, Books on America, 1872, no. 1887; and 1877, no. 1. Sabin, Dictionary, i. 3.—Ed.]
[371] This subject was first brought to the attention of students by a paper on “Gosnold and Pring,” read before the New England Historic Genealogical Society [by B. F. De Costa], portions of which were printed in the Society’s Register, 1878, p. 76. This shows the connection between the voyage of Gosnold and the letter of Verrazano. See also, “Cabo de Baxos, or the place of Cape Cod in the old Cartology,” in the Register, January, 1881 [by Dr. De Costa], and the reprint, revised. New York: T. Whittaker, 1881. Also Belknap’s American Biography, ii. 123.
[372] “New England was originally a Part of that Tract Stiled North-Virginia, extending from Norimbegua (as the old Geographers called all the continent beyond South-Virginia) to Florida, and including also New York, Jersey, Pensylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and Carolina. Though Sir Walter Raleigh’s Adventures and Sir Francis Drake’s were ashore in this Country, yet we find nothing very material or satisfactory either as to its Discovery or its Trade, till the Voyage made hither in 1602 by Captain Gosnold, who, having had some Notion of the Country from Sir Francis Drake, was the first Navigator who made any considerable Stay here, where he made a small Settlement, built a fort, and raised a Platform for six Guns.”—Bowen’s Complete System of Geography, London, 1747, ii. 666. [There is a long note on the landfall of Gosnold on the Maine coast, in Poor’s Vindication of Gorges, p. 30.—Ed.]
[373] The relation of Pring’s voyage is derived from Purchas, iv. 1654 and v. 829, where it is attributed to Pring himself. [It should be noted that the identifying of Whitson Harbor with the modern Plymouth was first brought forward by Dr. De Costa in the N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., January, 1878. It has generally been held that Pring doubled Cape Cod, and reached what is now Edgartown Harbor in Martha’s Vineyard, or some roadstead in that region. Such is the opinion of Bancroft, i., cent. ed., 90; Palfrey, i. 78; Barry, i. 12; and Bryant and Gay, i. 266—all these following the lead of Belknap.—Ed.]
[374] Voyages and Travels, London, 1742, ii. 222. See on Raleigh’s Patent, Palfrey’s New England, i. 81, note. [Also chapter iv. of the present volume.—Ed.]
[375] Divers voyages touching the discouerie of America and the Islands adiacent vnto the same, made first of all by our Englishmen, and afterwards by the Frenchmen and Britons, etc., etc. Imprinted at London for Thomas Woodcocke, dwelling in paules Church-Yard, at the signe of the blacke beare, 1582. [See further in the note following this chapter.—Ed.]