AJ-025: Bradford, Of Plimoth Plantation (1620)

              





1621.]    PLYMOU
H PLANTATION.    121

could
procure some shelter; and therfore thought it
better to
draw  some more charge upon
them    selves
& freinds, then hazard
all. The mr. and sea-men like-
wise, though before they
hasted ye passengers a shore
to be goone, now many of
their men being dead, &
of ye ablest of them, (as is
before noted,) and of
ye rest many lay sick & weake, ye
mr. durst not put
to sea, till he saw his men begine to
recover, and ye
hart of winter over.
  Afterwards they
(as many as were able) began to
plant ther come, in which
servise Squanto stood them
in great stead, showing them
both ye maner how to
set it, and after how to dress &
tend it.    Also he
tould them
excepte they gott fish & set with it (in
these old
grounds) it would come to nothing, and he
showed them yt
in ye midle of Aprill they should have
store enough come
up ye brooke, by which they be-
gane to build, and taught
them how to take it, and
wher to get other provissions
necessary for them; all
which they found true by triall &
experience. Some
English seed they sew, as wheat & pease,
but it came
not to good, eather by ye badnes of ye seed,
or latenes
of ye season, or both, or some other
defecte.
    [62] In this month of
Aprill whilst they were bussie
about their seed, their
GoVr (Mr. John Carver) came
out of ye feild very sick, it
being a hott day; he
complained greatly of his head, and
lay downe, and
within a few howers his sences failed, so
as he never