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Bully
A young man on the Mayflower boat was cursing people and threatening to throw them overboard. This man ended up being the first one to get sick and be thrown overboard. “But it pleased God before they came half seas over, to smite this young man with a grievous disease, of which he died in a desperate manner, and so was himself the first that was thrown overboard. Thus his curses light on his own head, and it was an astonishment to all his fellows for they noted it to be the just hand of God upo -
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Of Plymouth Plantation
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Crack in Main Beam of Ship
As the pilgrims were on their voyage their ship got a crack in the main beam and they had to react fast or they would risk their lives. “And as for the decks and upper works, they would caulk them as well as they could, and though with the working of the ship they would not long keep staunch [watertight], yet there would otherwise be no great danger, if they did not overpress her with sails. So they committed themselves to the will of God and resolved to proceed” (30). -
Pilgrims arrive at Cape Cod
After a week of being of the pilgrims being on this voyage they finally arrived and are thnakful they made it safely.
“If they looked behind them, there was the mighty ocean which they had passed and was now as a main bar and gulf to separate them from all the civil parts of the world… What could now sustain them but the Spirit of God and His grace? May not and ought not the children of these fathers rightly say: ‘Our fathers were Englishmen which came over this great ocean, and were ready to p -
Many People Get Sick
Many of the pilgrim on the voyage got sick from cold condtions and not sanitized at all. About as close to 100 pilgrims died. “And yet the Lord so upheld these persons as in this general calamity they were not at all infected either with sickness or lameness” (32). -
Squanto
This man helped the pilgrims in many ways so they could be sucessful in the their voyage. “…But Squanto continued with them and was their interpreter and was a special instrument sent of God for their good beyond their expectation. He directed them how to set their corn, where to take fish, and to procure other commodities, and was also their pilot [guide] to bring them to unknown places for their profit, and never left them till he died” (33).
