The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Complete eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 484 pages of information about The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Complete.

The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Complete eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 484 pages of information about The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Complete.

Tuesday, Jan. 9/Jan. 19
                              At anchor in harbor.  Fair day.  Sent
                              burying-party ashore after services aboard,
                              with the body of Master Martin, and he was
                              buried with some ceremony on the hill near
                              the landing-place.  The settlers drew lots
                              for their meersteads and garden-plots.  The
                              common-house nearly finished, wanting only
                              covering.

Wednesday, Jan. 10/Jan. 20
                              At anchor in harbor.  Party went aland from
                              ship.  Frosty.

Thursday, Jan. 11/Jan. 21
                              At anchor in harbor.  A fair day.  Party
                              ashore from ship and coming off at night,
                              reported Master William Bradford very ill: 
                              Many ill aboard.

Friday, Jan. 12/Jan. 22
                              At anchor in harbor.  Began to rain at noon
                              and stopped all work.  Those coming aboard
                              ship at night reported John Goodman and
                              Peter Browne, two of the colonists,
                              missing, and fears entertained that they
                              may have been taken by Indians.  Froze and
                              snowed at night.  The first snow for a
                              month.  An extremely cold night.

Saturday, Jan. 13/Jan. 23
                              At anchor in harbor.  The Governor sent out
                              an armed party of ten or twelve to look for
                              the missing men, but they returned without
                              seeing or hearing anything at all of them. 
                              Those on shipboard much grieved, as deeming
                              them lost.  Fetched wood and water.

Sunday, Jan. 14/Jan. 24
                              At anchor in harbor.  About six o’clock in
                              the morning, the wind being very great, the
                              watch on deck spied the great new
                              rendezvous on shore on fire and feared it
                              fired by Indians, but the tide being out,
                              men could not get ashore for three quarters
                              of an hour, when they went armed.  At the
                              landing they heard that the lost men were
                              returned, some frost-bitten, and that the
                              thatch

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