Sunday, Mar. 11/21
At
anchorage, Plymouth harbor. The
thirteenth
Sunday the ship has lain in this
harbor.
Many of crew yet ill, including
boatswain.
Monday, Mar. 12/22
At
anchorage. Easterly weather.
Tuesday, Mar. 13/23
At
anchorage. The sickness and mortality
on
ship and on shore continue.
Wednesday, Mar. 14/24
At
anchorage. Same.
Thursday, Mar. 15/25
At
anchorage. Same.
Friday, Mar. 16/26
At
anchorage. A fair, warm day, towards
noon.
The Master and others went ashore to
the
general meeting. The plantation was
startled
this morning by a visit from an
Indian
who spoke some English and bade
“Welcome.”
He is from Monhiggon, an island
to
the eastward some days’ sail, near where
Sir
Ferdinando Gorges had a settlement. He
was
friendly, and having had much
intercourse
with Englishmen who came to
fish
in those parts, very comfortable with
them.
He saw the ship in the harbor from a
distance
and supposed her to be a fishing
vessel.
He told the Governor that the
plantation
was formerly called “Patuxet”
[or
Apaum], and that all its inhabitants
had
been carried off by a plague about four
years
ago. All the afternoon was spent in
communication
with him. The Governor
purposed
sending him aboard the ship at
night,
and he was well content to go and
went
aboard the shallop to come to the
ship,
but the wind was high and water scant
[low],
so that the shallop could not go to
the
ship. The Governor sent him to Master
Hopkins’s
house and set a watch over him.
Saturday, Mar. 17/27
At
anchor in harbor. The Master and others
came
off to the ship. Samoset the Indian
went
away back to the Massasoits whence he
came.
A reasonably fair day. Fetched wood
and
water.


