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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Massachusetts (search)
nced to have their head and heels tied together, and thus remain for twenty-four hours without food or drink; after an hour's endurance they were relieved on promises and pleadings......June 18, 1621 First Thanksgiving in the colony......September, 1621 Village of Plymouth contains at this time seven dwelling-houses and four other buildings......September, 1621 Capt. Miles Standish, with nine Plymouth colonists and three Indians, explores the country about Massachusetts Bay......October, 1621 Fortune, a vessel of fifty-five tons, bringing thirty-six passengers, arrives at Plymouth......Nov. 11, 1621 The same vessel, laden with beaver and other skins and lumber, valued at $2,400, the first remittance from New Plymouth, sails on her return voyage......Dec. 3, 1621 John Alden marries Priscilla Mullens (the Puritan maiden), daughter of William Mullens......1621 Town surrounded by a palisade and a stockade built......February, 1622 Much suffering from lack of food....
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Virginia, (search)
early patron of Shakespeare, elected treasurer of the London Company......June 28, 1620 Population estimated at 4,000, and 40,000 pounds of tobacco shipped to England......1620 England claims a monopoly of trade of her plantations......October, 1621 London Company begins to ship respectable young women to supply the colonists with wives......1621 [They were sold for 120 lbs. of tobacco each, or the cost of bringing them over.] Sir Francis Wyatt chosen governor, and with nine ships, with emigrants and supplies, reaches Virginia......October, 1621 Cotton-seed planted as an experiment for the first time......1621 Indians rise and massacre the whites at nearly all the plantations, extending 140 miles on both sides of the river; only Jamestown and the nearest settlements saved, a converted Indian revealing the plot......March 22, 1622 Dissensions arising in the Virginia Company, King James appoints commissioners to investigate it, who advise a dissolution......M