The Pilgrim Story / Being largely a compilation from the documents of Governor Bradford and Governor Winslow, severally and in collaboration; together with a list of Mayflower passengers.

by William Franklin Atwood

Distributed by Plimoth Plantation, Plymouth, MA 02360

CONTENTS

Page CHAPTER I [Scrooby: Persecution] 7 CHAPTER II [Escape: Holland] 11 CHAPTER III [Holland: An Alien Peace] 15 [Historic Decision] 16 CHAPTER IV [London: Preparation] 20 [Articles of Agreement] 22 [False Accusations] 23 [The Embarkation] 25 [Voyage and Arrival] 26 [Signers of the Compact] 28 [First Town Meeting] 30 [Search for Permanent Settlement] 30 [The Shallop Arrives] 32 [Historic Landing] 33 [Permanent Settlement] 35 CHAPTER V [A New Home] 37 [First Winter Losses] 40 CHAPTER VI [Samoset’s Visit] 42 [Treaty with Massasoit] 44 [The First Marriage] 47 [The First Duel] 47 [Visit to Massasoit] 47 [Arrival of Hobamock] 48 [The Fortune Arrives] 49 [Pierce’s Attempt] 49 CHAPTER VII [Preparations for Winter] 51 [The First Thanksgiving] 51 [Bradford’s Letter] 53 CHAPTER VIII [Indian Trouble] 56 CHAPTER IX [Consolidation] 61 [Arrival of the Anne and the Little James] 62 [The First Cattle] 64 [The Wollaston Incident] 67 [The First Settled Minister] 69 [The First Capital Offence] 69 [Increase of Obligations] 69 [Roger Williams] 70 [Winslow Elected Governor] 71 [Boundaries Established] 71 [New England Confederacy] 72 [Conclusion] 73 [List of Mayflower Passengers] 74 [List of Fortune Passengers] 75 [List of Little James Passengers] 75

Index to Illustrations

NOTE—Many well-known pictures of the Pilgrims have grossly misinterpreted their true spirit. A “Signing of the Compact” or a “Departure from Delfthaven,” for example, that employs the sentimental piety, the eyes and arms raised to heaven, of Italian Baroque art, (that Jesuitical, most Catholic art), fails to reflect the real spirit of the Protestant Pilgrims. The use of the gracefully reclining and swooning figures of Italianate renaissance art is likewise inappropriate.

Reacting sharply from this, the illustrations in the book portray in the modern spirit both the activities of the Pilgrims and their settings with strict realism.

Unsparing effort in consulting authorities, old documents, prints, and actual scenes was expended to secure convincing authenticity.

[Stock Scene, showing church attended by Brewster and approximate location of the stocks in Scrooby] 7 [Birdseye view of Brewster Manor in Scrooby] 9 [Church at Scrooby] 10 [Capture of escaping Pilgrims by an English mob] 11 [Love Scene, showing actual bridge and the Cloth Hall in Leyden, headquarters of the guild of woolen workers, of whom the Pilgrims were a part] 15 [Destruction of Brewster’s printing shop] 18 [Cushman before the Merchant Adventurers] 20 [Embarkation, showing buildings and actual wharf from which the Pilgrims departed] 24 [Sighting of Provincetown, showing deck construction of Mayflower type of boat] 26 [Signing the Compact] 29 [The first building, showing position in relation to Town Brook and Pilgrim Spring] 37 [The First Street, in its true topographical setting] 39 [Samoset’s Visit] 42 [The Treaty with Massasoit, in its actual setting, “an unfinished building”] 45 [A Good Harvest] 51 [Thanksgiving Feast] 54 [The Snakeskin Warning] 56 [Capt. Standish Slays Pecksuot] 58 [The First Cattle] 61

PREFACE

No phase of early American history presents a finer example of faith, fortitude and determination of purpose than the story of that little band of devout souls who landed at Plymouth in the winter of 1620 and to whom we refer as the Pilgrims.

In the following limited pages the writer attempts to present something of the conditions obtaining in England prior to the Departure, also something of the struggles, privations, courage and forbearance during the first years of the settlement at Plymouth.

In so doing dependence is placed particularly upon the contemporaneous writings of Bradford and Winslow, both members of the Mayflower party.