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


