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The Bully on Board
“There was a proud and very profane young man, one of the seamen, of a lusty able body, which made him the more haughty; he would always be condemning the poor people in their sickness and cursing them daily,” (“Of Plymouth Plantation” 29) In this problem that the Puritans had along the seas the passengers aboard the Mayflower were harassed daily by this one sailor. “It pleased God before they came half seas over, to smite this young man.” (“Of Plymouth Plantation” 29) Not long after some of the -
The Bowed Beam
“Many fierce storms with which the ship was shrewdly shaken, and her upper works made very leaky; and one of the main beams in the mid ship was bowed and cracked,” (“Of Plymouth Plantation” 30) The storms that the Mayflower went through caused the ship to shake so much that soon one of its beams had been bowed and cracked. The Puritans were terrified that they might not make it to North America. “There was a great iron screw the passengers brought out of Holland, which would raise the beam into -
John Howland Overboard
“A Lusty young man called John Howland, coming upon some occasion above the gratings was, with seele of the ship, thrown into sea,” (“Of Plymouth Plantation” 30) While the ship was going through though waters John was above in the birds nest checking the view when suddenly he fell overboard! “It pleased god that he caught hold of the topsail….with a boathook and other means got into the ship again and his life saved.” (“Of Plymouth Plantation” 30) With this quote it shows that the Puritans belie -
The Dangerous Waters
“But after they had sailed that course about half the day, they fell amongst dangerous shoals and roaring breakers, and they were so far entangled therewith as they conceived themselves in great danger.” (“Of Plymouth Plantation” 30) The Puritans sailed onward to their destination of North America; when soon they were caught up in dangerous waters. They assured that this would be the end of them. “God’s good providence they made it out of the dangers.” (“Of Plymouth Plantation” 30) The Puritans -
The Dying and the Healthy
“But that which was most sad and lamentable were that in two to three months’ time half of their company died, especially in January and February, being depth of winter.” (“Of Plymouth Plantation” 31) Once the Puritans arrived in North America they soon began to suffer. Most of their population died of sickness and the brutal winters. “Yet the lord so upheld these persons as in the general calamity they weren’t at all infected either with sickness of lameness. What I have said of these I may say
