The Mayflower and Her Log - July 15, 1620 - May 6, 1621 - Chiefly from Original Sources by Ames

Author:Ames [Ames]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Transportation, Ships & Shipbuilding, History, Americas, United States, Colonial Period (1600-1775)
ISBN: 9781528790765
Publisher: Read Books Ltd.
Published: 2020-08-14T04:00:00+00:00

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7 Bradford himself—whose authority in the matter will not be doubted—says (Historie, Mass. ed. p. 112): “As this calamitie, the general sickness, fell among ye passengers that were to be left here to plant, and were basted ashore and made to drinke water, that the sea-men might have ye more bear [beer] and one in his sickness desiring but a small can of beare it was answered that if he were their own father he should have none.” Bradford also shows (op. cit. p. 153) the rapacity of Jones, when in command of the Discovery, in his extortionate demands upon the Plymouth planters, notwithstanding their necessities.

8 British State Papers, Holland, Bundle 165. Sir Dudley Carleton’s Letters. “They have certain Factors there, continually resident, trading with savages . . . but I cannot learn of any colony, either I already planted there by these people, or so much as intended.” Sir Dudley Carleton’s Letters.

9 Bancroft, History of the United States, vol. i. p. 68; Fiske, Discovery of America, vol. ii. p. 511 et seq. With the terrible experience of the Florida plantations in memory, the far-sighted leaders of the Leyden church proposed to plant under the shelter of an arm strong enough to protect them, and we find the Directors of the New Netherland Company stating that the Leyden party (the Pilgrims) can be induced to settle under Dutch auspices, “provided, they would be guarded and preserved from all violence on the part of other potentates, by the authority, and under the protection of your Princely Excellency and the High and Mighty States General.” Petition of the Directors of the New Netherland Company to the Prince of Orange.

10 The author is greatly indebted to his esteemed friend, Mr. George Ernest Bowman, Secretary-General of the Society of May-Flower Descendants, for information of much value upon this point. He believes that he has discovered trustworthy evidence of the existence of a small volume bearing upon its title-page an inscription that would certainly indicate that the May-Flower had her own surgeon. A copy of the inscription, which Mr. Bowman declares well attested (the book not being within reach), reads as follows:—

“To Giles Heale Chirurgeon,

from Isaac Allerton in Virginia.

Feb. 10, 1620.”

Giles Heale’s name will be recognized as that of one of the witnesses to John Carver’s copy of William Mullens’s nuncupative will, and, if he was the ship’s-surgeon, might very naturally appear in that relation. If book and inscription exist and the latter is genuine, it would be indubitable proof that Heale (who was surely not a May-Flower passenger) was one of the ship’s company, and if a “chirurgeon,” the surgeon of the ship, for no other Englishmen, except those of the colonists and the ship’s company, could have been at New Plymouth, at the date given, and New England was then included in the term “Virginia.” It is much to be hoped that Mr. Bowman’s belief may be established, and that in Giles Heale we shall have another known officer, the surgeon, of the May-Flower.

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