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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 24., Letter to the Editor. (search)
in September, 1621—well, I didn't know much, but your request set me to reading, as I suppose you expected it to do. And I began to appreciate something of the amount of special skill and patch-work labor necessary to enable you even to ask the question. But our interest in Medford makes it quite worth while to follow out your leads as to the first white men on the site of our city, and how they came to be there. In the first place, none of the chroniclers of the day says directly that Standish was on the expedition anyway. Governor Bradford says they dispatched on September 18, ten men with Squanto for their guide. He names no one else. The author of Mourt's Relation gives no other names. But the latter does speak of the Captaine, and we are well persuaded that no such expedition would have sallied forth during his lifetime without the leadership of that doughty little pepperpot. Furthermore, as the writer of the Relation speaks always of our doings in the expedition, I supp