The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1870-05-11

! cloth and sult of clothes, which the
chief put on with great exultation, es-
pecially the flaming red coat.
1 When the harvest, came in the fall
they found that, by carefully attend
ing to the directions of the Indians,
they had raised corn gt
to afford to each person through the
winter a peck of meal week. BY
the third harvest they began to have
corn to spare; so that the more indus
trIaus sold of. their abundance to the
newcomers, to passing fishermen and
to the Indians.
There icing few human inhabitants
In New England then, the number Of
wild animals was marvellous. Through
the firm friendship of the colonists
with the Indians, they were able to
procure wonderful supplies of beaver
skins for expectation to England.
They would send in one ship as much
as three thousand pounds weight of
beaver skins, the best of which was
worth in England twenty shillings a
pound AS many as three hundred
otter skins were sometimes sent in q
single vessel. This trade, conducted
chiefly by Winslow, produced so large
a revenue, that when the colony was
twenty-five years old it had paid its,
debts, bought its independence of the
London Cbmpany, brought over a con-
siderable number Of their poorer
brethren from Holland, and possessed
sufficient capital to carry on vigor-
Gus commerce with the Dutch in New
| Y ork, with their friends at Boston,,
and with the fishing feet of the coasts
of Maine and Newfoundland. They
went SO far as to Establish storehouseA
on the coast of Maine, well supplied
with goods for trade with the fisher
men and dlthe French. One of these
siorehouses was captured by party Of
Frenchmen, and the Plymouth planta-
ton was strong enough to send three
hundred ton vessel TO retake it. Thus
began the contest between New Eng
land and Canada, which ended only
with the conquest of Canada, a hun
dred and fifty years after.
The extensive commerce of the
Plymouth people with the mother
country compelled Governor Winslow
to make frequent voyages thither. On
his return fiom his first voyage, in
1924, he brought with him three heif-
ers and a bull, the first cattle ever i'm
ported into New England In three
years, by the natural increase of these.
and by fresh importations, there were
cattle enough to supply the whole col
ony with little milk and butter They
then divided themselves into twelve
families, or companies of thirteen per-
sons each, and to each company was
assigned two goats, milch COW, and
two or three cattle not Immediately
productive, such as heifers, steers and
bulls. In this way everybody bore
part of the burden, and enjoyed part
of the benefit Shares in the family
herd or in single animals were bought
and sold. Thus, for example, as
read in the records at Plymouth, under
date of january 10th, 1927:
Edward Wii:slow hath sold unto
Captain Myles Standish his six shares
III the red COW, for and in considera-
tion of five pounds ten shilling. to be
paid in corn at the rate of six shillings, >
per bushel.'' :- -"f
AnOther entry DeglilS thuS
"Abraham Peirce hath sold unto
Captain Myles Standish two shares in
the red COW, for and in consideration of
two eve lambs, the one to be delivered
at the time of weaning this present year
and the other at the same time ammo.
1928" ,.---,
In this beautifully sensible and just
manner the Pilgrim Fathers managed
all their affairs, Edward Winslow being
evidently the leading business man Of
the colony, which he served also for
many years as governor. During one
of his visits to England in 1886, he az
representing a Puritan colony, fell
under the displeasure ofthe Archbishop
of Canterbury. The Archbishop ar
raigneL him on the charge of preaching
without ordination or license. He re-
piled, very modestly, that in the in
fancy OF the colony, when there was
no minister in plymouth, he did "ex-
ercise his gift to help tho ediication Of
bis brethren" The archbishop also
accused hinr of having performed the
of marriage. He did not
leny that in his character as magis-
rate he hadmarried some couples, and
before the archbishop that
was a civil covenant, and
added that he found no warrant in the
Bible for the performance of the mar
rage ceremony by clergyman.
besides" said he, 1--WE were ne
,essitated so to do, having for long
ime together at first 10 minister. Be-
'ides, it is no new thing, for I was SO
married. myself in Holland by the
IN their Stadt Haus."
This defence did no: avail. He was
committed to the Fleet prison, and re-
NAMED in confinement for four months,
o the great damage of the plantation
which had to pay his expenses and to
suffer the loss Of his services. Alta
ater date, when the Puritans were in
power in England, the ProtectoreCrom.
we'll gave him an honorable charge as
me of three commissioners to estimate
he value of some English ships de-
troyed by Danish forces in the West
ndies. On the voyage, near Jamaica,
le was taken sick and died, in the
ixty-first year of his age. He was the
irst, and not the least able Of the many
of bold, originating men Of
business which New England has nur-
nred or produced .g
A Naturalist, in speaking of map
If indisputablei stupidity, said. "To
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