peece; but the most were servants, and shuch as were ingaged to the former persons, who allso had the most goods. Affter they were hither come, and some thing setled, the maisters desired some ground to imploye ther servants upon; seing it was like to be the latter end of the year before they could have passage for Virginia, and they had now the winter before them; they might clear some ground, and plant a crope (seeing they had tools, and necessaries for the same) to help to bear their charge, and keep their servants in imployment; and if they had oppertunitie to departe before the same was ripe, they would sell it on the ground. So they had ground appointed them in convenient places, and Fells and some other of them raised a great deall of corne, which they sould at their departure. This Fells, amongst his other servants, had a maid servante which kept his house and did his household affairs, and by the intimation of some that belonged unto him, he was susspected to keep her, as his concubine; and both of them were examined ther upon, but nothing could be proved, and they stood upon their justification; so with admonition they were dismiste. But afterward it appeard she was with child, so he gott a small boat, and ran away with her, for fear of punishmente.1 First he went to Cap-Anne, and after into the bay of the Massachussets, but could get no passage, and had like to have been cast away; and was forst to come againe and submite him selfe; but they pact him away and those that belonged unto him by the first oppertunitie, and dismiste all the rest as soone as could, being many untoward people amongst them; though ther were allso some that caried them selves very orderly all the time they stayed. And the plan[149]tation had some benefite by them, in selling them corne and other provissions of food for cloathing; for they had of diverse kinds, as cloath, perpetuanes,'

1 The two more than mysterious chapters, in Book III of Morton's New English Canaan (ch. Ix and xiii) on the "barren doe of Virginia," may have some reference to this incident.

A kind of wool, or wool and silk cloth. The New English Dictionary gives the

and other stuffs, besides hose, and shoes, and such like commodities as the planters stood in need of. So they both did good, and received good one from another; and a cuple of barks caried them away at the later end of sommer. And sundrie of them have acknowledged their thankfullnes since from Virginia.

That they might the better take all convenient opportunitie to follow their trade, both to maintaine them selves, and to disingage them of those great sumes which they stood charged with, and bound for, they resoloved to build a smale pinass at Manamet,1 a place. 20. mile from the plantation, standing on the sea to the south ward of them, unto which, by an other creeke on this side, they could cary their goods, within 4 or 5 miles, and then transport them over land to their vessell; and so avoyd the compasing of CapCodd, and those deangerous shoulds, and so make any vioage to the southward in much shorter time, and with farr less danger. Also for the saftie of their vessell and goods, they builte a house theire, and kept some servants, who also planted corne, and reared some swine, and were allwayes ready to goe out with the barke

form perpetuana, and as a factitious trade name, applied to a durable fabric of wool manufactured in England from the xvith century. The industry appears to have been introduced into England by the Flemish refugees (Burn, Foreign Protestant Refugees, 5), and Dekker, writing in 1606 (Seven Sinnes), speaks of the "sober Perpetuanasuited Puritane."

1 Manomet, lying on a fresh river of the same name, was known to the French and Dutch as well as to the Plymouth settlers. The Cape at that part gave only about six miles of land between Cape Cod Bay and Manomet or Buzzard's Bay, and the heads of Manomet River and a creek running into Scussett harbor were only a short distance apart. The river was navigable by boats of eight or ten tons as high as the village, and it was here that the Dutch, trading with the Wampanoags on Buzzard's Bay, came into contact with the Plymouth Colony. The sachem at the time of Bradford's visit in 1622 was Cawnacome, one of those who acknowledged themselves to be subjects of King James in the agreement signed September 13, 1621.' He died in 1623, after the killing of Peksuot. Vol. 1. p. 296.

Manomet stream was visited by Bradford in 1622 in search of corn. The Indian name is said to have been Pimesepoese, meaning "provision rivulet." 2 Mass. Hist. Collections, IV. 291.

when ther was occasion. All which tooke good effecte, and turned to their profite.

They now sent (with the returne of the ships) Mr. Allerton againe into England, giveing him full power, under their hands and seals, to conclude the former bargaine with the adventurers; and sent ther bonds for the paimente of the money. Allso they sent what beaver they could spare to pay some of their ingagementes, and to defray his charges; for those deepe interests still kepte them low. Also he had order to procure a patente for a fitt trading place in the river of Kenebeck; for being emulated both by the planters at Pascataway and other places to the eastward of them, and allso by the fishing ships, which used to draw much profite from the Indeans

1 "Coming out of the river Nassau [Narragansett Bay], you sail east-and-by-north about fourteen miles, along the coast, a half a mile from the shore, and you then come to 'Frenchman's Point' [2 New York Hist. Soc. Coll., 1. 364], at a small river where those of Patucxet have a house made of hewn oak planks, called Aptucxet [Manomet], where they keep two men, winter and summer, in order to maintain the trade and possession. Where also they have built a shallop in order to go and look after the trade in sewan, in Sloup's Bay [the western entrance to Narragansett Bay] and thereabouts, because they are afraid to pass Cape Mallabaer, and in order to avoid the length of the way; which I have prevented for this year [1627] by selling them fifty fathoms of sewan. . . . From Aptucxet the English can come in six hours, through the woods, passing several little rivulets of fresh water, to New Plymouth, the principal place in the county Patucxet, so called in their Patent from his Majesty in England." Rasiere, 2 New York Hist. Soc. Coll., 11. 350. Sloup's Bay is noted on the Dutch map in this volume. Sewan was wampampeage. The site of the trading house at Manomet was established by Dr. John Batchelder by means of a grant made, in 1655, to James Skiffe, a freeman of Sandwich. Plymouth Col. Rec., 111. 84. His account is printed in Russell, Pilgrim Memorials (3d ed.), 148. He believed Nassau River to be the present Weweantic, and Frenchman's Point to be Agawam Point.

• If any judgment may be drawn from Sherley's letter of November 17, 1628 (p. 32, infra), Allerton sailed soon after May 26, and on the Marmaduke, John Gibbs, master. If Deane's conjecture on the date of Sherley's letter (p. 36, infra) be correct, Allerton sailed after June 14, as he carried a letter of Bradford written on that date.

So far as is known no application for a patent was then before the Council for New England for any part of the New England territory under its jurisdiction. Between 1622 when the Gorges-Norton patent issued, and 1627, when New Plymouth obtained its Kennebec patent, an indifference to western adventures prevailed.