Mourt's Relation (London, 1622), ed. Henry Martyn Dexter (1865)
Record
- Date
- 1622; Dexter edition 1865
- Seen as
- originalimagetranscriptabstractindex
What it says
The first printed account of the Plymouth settlement, the journal of the first months (November 1620 to 1621), cited by the pages of Dexter’s 1865 edition.
For the Warren line: the exploring party of Wednesday 6 Dec 1620, “ten of our men … to wit, Captaine Standish, Maister Carver, William Bradford, Edward Winslowe, John Tilley, Edward Tilley, John Houland, and three of London, Richard Warren, Steeuen Hopkins, and Edward [Doten]” (p. 44). The dawn attack of 8 Dec, when “there were foure only of vs, which had their armes there readie,” after which “some coates which hung vp in our Baricado, were shot through and through … and called this place, The first Encounter”; and the sounding of Plymouth harbour on Monday 11 Dec, when the party “found divers corne fields, and little running brookes, a place very good for scituation” (pp. 51-59).
“Of London” places Richard Warren in London by 1620; it does not say he was born there.
For Stephen Hopkins (checked in the archive.org text): the armed party of 15 Nov 1620, “vnder the conduct of Captaine Miles Standish, vnto whom was adioyned for counsell and advise, William Bradford, Stephen Hopkins, and Edward Tilley”; the Indian deer trap, “Stephen Hopkins sayd, it had beene to catch some Deere,” which then caught Bradford “by the leg”; and Samoset’s first night in the settlement, March 1621: “we lodged him that night at Steven Hopkins house, and watched him.”