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Excerpt from Wessagusset and Weymouth: An Historical Address by Charles Francis Adams, Jr., Delivered at Weymouth, July 4, 1874, on the Occasion of the Celebration of the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Permanent Settlement of the Town
My explanation of Morton's statement as to his arrival is, that in it, with his usual recklessness as to facts, he confounded two events which occurred at different dates. He says, The New English Canaan (p. In the Moneth of Iune, Anno Salutis: 1622. It was my chaunce to arrive in the parts of New England with 30. Servants, and provision of all sorts fit for a plantation. Here are two facts distinctly stated; one as to the date of his arrival, exactly coinciding with that of the Weston company the other as to the number of servants, etc., answering to the descrip tion of Wollaston's company. Morton, I think, therefore, came out with Weston's company, and left Wessagusset in March, 1623, with them; he then, more than two years later, returned there with Wollaston, probably acting as his guide. When, seven years later, he printed his book, desir ing to make his American experience date as far back as possible, he sim ply confused his two arrivals, and quietly ignored his connection with the Weston company, which had left a very unsavory reputation behind it as being made up of the refuse of, mankind.
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