A Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth

A Journal of the
Pilgrims at Plymouth

MOURT’S RELATION
A RELATION OR JOURNAL
of the English Plantation settled at Plymouth in New England, by certain English adventurers both merchants and others.

Edited from the original printing of 1622,
with introduction and notes, by
Dwight B. Heath

The American Experience Series

CONSULTING EDITOR: HENRY BAMFORD PARKES

CORINTH BOOKS
NEW YORK

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DWIGHT B. HEATH has done extensive ethnographicfield work among various Indian tribes in Bolivia, Guatemala,Mexico, and the United States, in the course ofearning his A.B. at Harvard College and Ph.D. at Yale.As Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Brown University,one of his subsidiary interests is ethnohistory, analyzinghistorical sources from anthropological perspectives.

Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 62-17660
Copyright © 1963 Dwight B. Heath

The cover illustration, “Pilgrims Going to Church”by George H. Boughton (1867), is from the RobertL. Stuart Collection of the New York Historical Societyand reproduced with their kind permission.

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CONTENTS

Editor’s introduction vii
MOURT’S RELATION
To His Much Respected Friend, Mr. I. P. 3
To the Reader. 6
Certain Useful Advertisements sent in a Letter written by a Discreet Friend unto the Planters in New England, at their first setting sail from Southampton, who earnestly desireth the prosperity of that, their new plantation. 9
A Relation or Journal of the Proceedings of the Plantation settled at Plymouth in New England. 15
A Journey to Pokanoket, the habitation of the great King Massasoit; as also our message, the answer and entertainment we had of him. 60
A Voyage Made by Ten of Our Men to the Kingdom of Nauset, to seek a boy that had lost himself in the woods; with such accidents as befell us in that voyage. 69
A Journey to the Kingdom of Nemasket in defense of the great King Massasoit against the Narragansets, and to revenge the supposed death of our interpreter, Squanto. 73
A Relation of Our Voyage to the Massachusets, and what happened there. 77
A Letter sent from New England to a Friend in these parts, s
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