It caused us to rejoice together, and praise God that had given us once again to see land. And the appearance of it much comforted us, especially seeing so goodly a land, and wooded to the brink of the sea. Wednesday, the sixth of September, the winds coming east north east, a fine small gale, we loosed from Plymouth, having been kindly entertained and courteously used by divers friends there dwelling, and after many difficulties in boisterous storms, at length, by God's providence, upon the ninth of November following, by break of the day we espied land which was deemed to be Cape Cod, and so afterward it proved. Johnson for presenting this hypertext version of Mourt's Relation. Then I adapted the general paragraphing scheme from the 1969 Dwight Heath version, which is clearly more appropriate for web page presentation.
This version of Mourt's Relation is based on a University Microfilm (Ann Arbor, Michigan) facimilie edition of the original 1622 edition, to which I have updated the spelling to modern American-English standards. Mourt's Relation was first published in London in 1622, presumably by George Morton (hence the title, Mourt's Relation). Written between November 1620 and November 1621, it describes in detail what happened from the landing of the Pilgrims at Cape Cod, though their exploring and eventual settling at Plymouth, to their relations with the surrounding Indians, up to the First Thanksgiving and the arrival of the ship Fortune. Mourt's Relation was written primarily by Edward Winslow, although William Bradford appears to have written most of the first section. Mourt's Relation: A Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, 1622, Part IĬaleb Johnson, a member of the General Society of Mayflower Descendants, provides the following comments on this hypertext version:
#WHERE DID THE PILGRIMS LAND ARCHIVE#
The following month, the Pilgrims crossed Cape Cod Bay and began to construct their permanent settlement in Plymouth.Mourt's Relation: A Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, 1622, Part I The Plymouth Colony Archive Project As Mayflower master Christopher Jones attempted to sail south toward the Hudson River along the uncharted coast of Cape Cod, however, the ship encountered blustery headwinds and “fell amongst dangerous shoals and roaring breakers.” With supplies running low and fears of a shipwreck running high, Jones turned back and found refuge in the harbor near present-day Provincetown Massachusetts, where the Pilgrims first made landfall on November 11.
#WHERE DID THE PILGRIMS LAND FULL#
Although William Bradford reported that the Pilgrims were full of joy after enduring a “long beating at sea,” his fellow passengers also knew that that the Atlantic Ocean’s fierce storms had driven them more than 220 miles northeast of their intended destination-the mouth of the Hudson River. After more than two months at sea, the Pilgrims aboard the storm-tossed Mayflower finally spied the New England coastline as dawn broke on November 9, 1620.
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