Plymouth

Region: The Americas · Coordinates: 41.958, -70.667 · 36 events

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AD 1620Bradford, Of Plymouth PlantationOn December 15 they moved the ship, and on the 16th, with a good wind, they safely entered the harbor they had explored earlier (Plymouth).
AD 1621Bradford, Of Plymouth PlantationWithin two or three months half of the party died, especially in the deep winter of January and February (even healthy people caring for the sick were short).
AD 1621Bradford, Of Plymouth PlantationNatives were prowling around nearby; Massasoit came together with Squanto, and they made a six-point peace treaty (not to harm one another, to help one another if attacked, and so on). The record says the treaty lasted 24 years.
AD 1621Bradford, Of Plymouth PlantationIn early April the Mayflower, which had landed the believers, was sent back to England (it had stayed at anchor a long time because of the need and the danger).
AD 1621Bradford, Of Plymouth PlantationGovernor Carver, sowing seed in the fields, fell on a hot day complaining of a headache, and within a few hours lost consciousness.
AD 1621Bradford, Of Plymouth PlantationAfter Carver, William Bradford was elected governor and Isaac Allerton assistant; Allerton was re-elected every year after that.
AD 1621Bradford, Of Plymouth PlantationOn May 12, the first marriage at Plymouth. Following Dutch custom, a magistrate, not a minister, performed the civil wedding.
AD 1621Bradford, Of Plymouth PlantationIn November the small ship Fortune arrived unannounced, carrying Cushman and 35 people. There was almost no food.
AD 1621Bradford, Of Plymouth PlantationThe Narragansett people sent a threat: a snakeskin tied around a bundle of arrows. Plymouth filled the skin with bullets and sent it back.
AD 1622Bradford, Of Plymouth PlantationSeeing the men Weston sent come ashore, Plymouth decided to welcome them kindly (out of loyalty to Weston personally and pity for the people).
AD 1622Bradford, Of Plymouth PlantationThat summer they built a sturdy fort of timber (flat roof, loopholes, cannon mounted, constant watch).
AD 1623Bradford, Of Plymouth PlantationWith the food gone, everyone began to plant more grain and to think about how to get a better harvest (the occasion for dividing land by family).
AD 1623Bradford, Of Plymouth PlantationA long drought withered the crops, so they kept a day of fasting and prayer; toward evening clouds gathered and soft rain fell.
AD 1623Bradford, Of Plymouth PlantationThe Anne arrived, and about ten days later the new small vessel Little James, which had been lost from it in a storm, came in.
AD 1624Bradford, Of Plymouth PlantationAt the election of new officers, the governor asked to resign and proposed adding more assistants.
AD 1624Bradford, Of Plymouth PlantationWinslow brought in from England, with supplies, three heifers and a bull, which became the start of cattle in this land.
AD 1624Bradford, Of Plymouth PlantationWhen the plotting and factions came to light, the governor held a court, summoned the whole population, and prosecuted Lyford and Oldham.
AD 1624Bradford, Of Plymouth PlantationBy the guilty verdict, Oldham was to be banished at once and Lyford after a six-month reprieve.
AD 1625Bradford, Of Plymouth PlantationAround the spring election, Oldham, who had been banished, returned without permission and caused trouble; he was caught and driven out past the guards.
AD 1625Bradford, Of Plymouth PlantationThey put Standish on a large ship to England with letters and instructions for the investors and the New England council.
AD 1626Bradford, Of Plymouth PlantationIn early April a shallop was sent to meet Standish on his return; sad news, such as the death of Robinson, arrived with him.
AD 1627Bradford, Of Plymouth PlantationCalling everyone together, they concluded that trade should go on as before to repay debts, and that those on the list be registered as 'purchasers'.
AD 1627Bradford, Of Plymouth PlantationA set of articles with the 'undertakers' (Bradford, Standish, Allerton and others): the colony took on the debts, and they had trade rights for six years (articles 1–6).
AD 1629Bradford, Of Plymouth PlantationThirty-five people from Leiden sailed in May and arrived at Plymouth by way of England (a second group arrived the following year).
AD 1630Bradford, Of Plymouth PlantationJohn Billington, a 'first comer', was found guilty of deliberate murder by a jury and executed (the colony's first execution).
AD 1633Bradford, Of Plymouth PlantationThat year an infectious fever killed more than twenty people, including old friends from Leiden.
AD 1635Bradford, Of Plymouth PlantationOn Saturday, August 14–15, a storm and hurricane-like winds swept in, unlike any seen before.
AD 1638Bradford, Of Plymouth PlantationIn the year Prence was elected governor, three men who had committed robbery and murder were executed after trial.
AD 1638Bradford, Of Plymouth PlantationAround June 1–2 there was a great earthquake. First came a sound like distant thunder, and it passed from north to south.
AD 1639Bradford, Of Plymouth PlantationThe two colonies chose commissioners to fix the boundary, but at one meeting at Hingham they could not agree (they quarreled over the wording concerning the Charles River).
AD 1640Bradford, Of Plymouth PlantationBradford handed the patent he had held in trust over to the enlarged body of freemen and the various towns (Plymouth, Duxbury, Scituate, Taunton, Sandwich, Yarmouth, Barnstable, Marshfield, etc.).
AD 1641Bradford, Of Plymouth PlantationOn October 15, John Atwood (agent of the Sherley side), Bradford and others agreed on the terms ending the long accounting dispute.
AD 1641Bradford, Of Plymouth PlantationThe priest Chauncy, invited in 1638, clashed with the church over baptism and left; the church called other pastors and held a public debate.
AD 1643Bradford, Of Plymouth PlantationAround April 18 the elder Brewster, Bradford's friend, died; a long biographical sketch followed.
AD 1644Bradford, Of Plymouth PlantationBecause the land was narrow and poor, many people left this place for better places (a crisis for the church too).
AD 1646Bradford, Of Plymouth PlantationIn mid-May three warships entered the harbor in battle formation. Captain Cromwell was a man who had captured several Spanish ships in the West Indies.
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