1Winslow’s Briefe Narrative, p. 31.

2Bradford, 25, 26.

3Works of Sir Walter Raleigh.

4Mourt’s Narrative.

5Mourt’s Narrative.

6A musket with a flint lock.

7Johnson’s Wonder Working Providence.

8Note to Young’s Chronicles of the Pilgrims.

9A Duck.

10Mourt’s Relation.

11The bill of mortality, according to Prince, which he copied from Bradford, was as follows: In December, six died; in January, eight; in February, seventeen; in March, thirteen; total, forty-four.

12Made of maize or Indian corn.

13James I., then King of England, had been a widower for about a year.

14This was probably the fish called tataug.

15Abbott’s Life of King Philip.

16Mr. Drake, in his History of Boston, supposes that the “cliff” alluded to must have been that pile of rocks now called “the chapel,” in Quincy Bay.

17The Fortune.

18It will be remembered that, as half of their number had died, seven houses accommodated the survivors.

19Morton, in his New English Canaan, writes: “There is a fish, by some called shads, that at the spring of the year pass up the rivers to spawn in the ponds, and are taken in such multitudes in every river that hath a pond at the end, that the inhabitants dung their ground with them. You may see in one township a hundred acres together set with these fish, every acre taking a thousand of them. And an acre thus dressed will produce and yield so much corn as three acres without fish.”

It was the rule of the Indians to plant their corn when the leaves of the white oak were as big as the ear of a mouse. They put two or three fishes in every cornhill.

20Probably Martha’s Vineyard, then called Capawock.

21Subsequently Mr. Winslow wrote, correcting this statement: “Whereas, myself and others, in former letters, wrote that the Indians about us are a people without any religion or knowledge of any God, therein I erred, though we could then gather no better.”—Winslow’s Good News.

22There is some uncertainty about this word, but this is probably the true reading.

23Mr. George Morton, to whom this letter was addressed, came out in the next ship, the Ann, which sailed from London about the last of April, 1622.

24Memoir of the Colony of Plymouth, by Francis Baylies. Part the First, page 91.

25Winslow in Young; p. 290.

26History of Plymouth Plantation, by William Bradford, p. 127.

27Young’s Chronicles of the Pilgrims, p. 295.

28Mr. Weston had formerly befriended the plantation at Plymouth.

29Winslow in Young, p. 297.

30Young’s Chronicles; p. 299.

31Young’s Chronicles, p. 310.

32Young’s Chronicles, p. 318.

33Young’s Chronicles, p. 320.

34Bradford’s Plymouth Plantation; p. 130.

35Bradford in Prince, p. 216.

36Young’s Chronicles, p. 349

37Bradford’s Plymouth Plantation, p. 135.

38Bradford’s Plymouth Plantation, p. 211.

39Baylies’ Memoir of Plymouth Colony, p. 140.

40Blake’s Plymouth Colony, p. 153.

41Life of Elder William Brewster, p. 335.

42Higginson’s New England Plantation, p. 123.

43Bradford’s Plymouth Plantation.

44The name of the man thus shot was John Talbot.

45Bradford’s Plymouth Plantation, p. 321.

46Bradford’s Plymouth Plantation, p. 339.

47Bradford’s Plymouth Plantation, p. 363.

48Memoir of Plymouth Colony, by Francis Baylies, p. 249.

49There is a little uncertainty whether Elder Brewster died in the year 1640 or 1644.

50Morton says, “He was fourscore and four years of age.”

51Memoir of New Plymouth, by Francis Baylies, part i, p. 277.