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Patuxet (Plymouth) 400 years on: Massasoit the statesman masterfully played the Plymouth Colony

Posted on November 26, 2020 by Stephen Carr Hampton

While the Pilgrims moved into the abandoned village of Patuxet and planted their fields, the Great Sachem Massasoit called together a council to hammer out policy toward the wayward colonists. Hammered by plague and pestilence, his Wampanoag Confederacy was vulnerable. … Continue reading →

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Patuxet (Plymouth) 400 years on: Prisoner, slave, guide, ambassador — Meet the real Squanto, Tisquantum

Posted on November 20, 2020 by Stephen Carr Hampton

When we last left the Pilgrims and other settlers (see previous blog post), they had arrived at the abandoned village of Patuxet, but stayed huddled onboard the Mayflower, freezing and dying thru the winter. Finally, in March 1621, the weather … Continue reading →

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Patuxet (Plymouth) 400 years on: “Bones and skulls” — An epidemic made the Pilgrims’ settlement possible

Posted on November 11, 2020 by Stephen Carr Hampton

In the late fall of 1620, the 102 men, women, and child passengers aboard for the Mayflower found themselves behind schedule and seriously off course. They were supposed to be in Virginia Colony (the colony that famously kidnapped Pocahontas), which … Continue reading →

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On this date… March 22, 1621 and 1622… Massachusetts and Virginia

Posted on March 21, 2015 by Stephen Carr Hampton

March 22 was a significant date two years in a row. In 1621, Massasoit, the Great Sachem of the Wampanoags, negotiated a mutual defense pact with the Pilgrims recently ensconced at Patuxet, which they called Plymouth. Though his people were … Continue reading →

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What really happened: The account of the first Thanksgiving

Posted on November 27, 2013 by Stephen Carr Hampton

Here is the original account of the first Thanksgiving. It’s only three short paragraphs. But first, a little context.  It’s 1621. The Pilgrims arrived the previous December, finally settling in the abandoned Native village of Patuxet.  A year or two … Continue reading →

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