[567] Bradford, p. 222, et seq.
[568] In Roger Williams’ Key, wampum is considered as Indian money, and is described in the twenty-fourth chapter of that interesting tract. Their white money they called wampum, which signifies white; their black, suckawhack, sucki signifying black. Hist. Col., vol. 3, p. 231.
[569] Mr. Gookin says: “Wampum is made chiefly by the Narragansett Block Island Indians. Upon the sandy flats and shores of those coasts the wilk shell are found.” Hist. Col., vol. 1, p. 152.
[570] Bradford, p. 234.
[571] Mr. Brodhead, who obtained this valuable letter, only summarized in the text, from the archives at the Hague, gives it in full in the New York Hist. Col., sec. series, vol. 2, p. 343, et seq.
[572] Prince, vol. 1, p. 160. Deane’s Scituate, p. 332. “Mrs. Robinson, widow of Rev. John Robinson, came over with the latter company, with her son Isaac, and perhaps with another son.” Editorial note in Bradford, p. 247. “There was an Abraham Robinson early at Gloucester, who is surmised to have been a son of the Leyden minister.” Ibid. It has been thought that Mrs. Robinson did not remain in Plymouth, but went to Salem, “where was a Mrs. Robinson very early.” MS. Letters of J. J. Babson, Esq., of Gloucester, Mass.
[573] Bradford, pp. 247, 248.
[574] Bradford, pp. 247, 248.
[575] Ibid., p. 249.
[576] Bradford’s Letter-Book, in Mass. Hist. Col., vol. 3, pp. 69, 70.