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Title: The May-flower and her log, July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 : chiefly from original sources
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Ames, Azel, 1845-1908. 4n
Subjects: Mayflower (Ship) Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony)
Publisher: Boston : Houghton, Mifflin
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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, Smith,Raleigh, and others (Hopkins having been with Gates), and that,though there had been brief attempts at settlements in the north-ern plantations, there were none there then, and that hence theirswould be in a sense the first, especially if considered with referenceto the new Council for New England. The region of the Hudsonhad heretofore been included in the term northern parts of Vir-ginia, although in the southern Companys limit; but a new mean-ing was now designedly given to the words as used in the Compact,and New England was contemplated. 2. They confirmed Carver governour, strictly speaking, forthe balance of their calendar year (not only for the ship, but for theshore as well, the latter being, indeed, the main purpose, as they weresoon to leave the ship), which expired in that period on March 24,instead of December 31. The later records show that a few daysbefore March 25 he was reelected for the year to follow. 3. Young, Chronicles of the Pilgrim Fathers, p. 120, note.
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CAPE COD HARBOUR The yournal anchor the ship boxed the compass (i. e. wentclear around all points of it). Let go anchors three quarters of an Eng-lish mile off shore,^ because of shallowwater, sixty-seven days from Plymouth(Eng.), eighty-one days from Dartmouth,ninety-nine days from Southampton, andone hundred and twenty from London.^Got out the long-boat and set ashore anarmed party of fifteen or sixteen in armor,and some to fetch wood, having none left,^landing them on the long point or neck,toward the sea.* Those going ashore wereforced to wade a bow-shot or two in goingaland.^ The party sent ashore returned 259 Nov. 11/21continued 1. Young, op. clt. p, 120; Mourfs Relation, Dexters ed. p. 5. 2. Goodwin (op. cit. p. 66) erroneously states that the greaterportion of the May-Flower passengers had passed one hundredand thirty-three days in cramped-up quarters on shipboard since theyhad given that parting salute to their friends in the harbor of Delft-haven. He probably intended to say

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