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Title: Cape Cod and the Old colony
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Brigham, Albert Perry, 1855-1932
Subjects: Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony) Cape Cod (Mass.)
Publisher: New York and London, G.P. Putnam's Sons
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
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settled in 1630, and the nearerKingston, the North End of Plymouthdates seven years later. Here lived a de-scendant of William Bradford, and here waskept the Bradford manuscript of Pilgrimhistory before it began its mysterious jour-ney to England, and its long repose in Brit-ish archives. Farther north in Marshfield lived GovernorJosiah Winslow, the first American-born rulerof Plymouth Colony, and here his father,Governor Edward Winslow of the Mayflower,was married to Susannah White. This wasthe first marriage in the new colony, beingcelebrated in 1621. Marshfield also holds thegrave of Peregrine White, born upon the May-flower during its sojourn across the Bay inProvincetown Harbor, in 1620. These settlements in the north were littlemore than local annexes to the parent groupat Plymouth, but soon began a movementdown the Cape, which did not reach its goaluntil Provincetown was incorporated in 1727.From its first permanent settlement, however,the whole Cape was a part of Plymouth Col-
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The Pilgrims Around the Bay 21 ony, until in 1692 the latter was absorbed inthe royal province of Massachusetts. In the years just before 1640 movementsbegan in the direction of the Cape. There wasdiscontent with the conditions of living inPlymouth and this led some to think of movingthe whole colony to Nauset, the present East-ham. The unwisdom of such a change wasdiscovered in time to avert inevitable failure,,**for this place was about fifty miles from henceand at an outside of the country remote fromall society, also that it would prove so straightas it would not be competent to receive thewhole body, much less be capable of any addi-tion or increase. Thus in old-style phraseis gathered the whole argument, and it isconfirmed by seeing how the map of the Capenarrows between Orleans and Wellfleet. Still the bare-looking fields of this wind-sweptplain were esteemed productive in those days,and in 1644 the more restless spirits migratedto Nauset and received a grant of lands there.But

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