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THE TIMES OF THEIR LIVES
Life, Love, and Death in PLYMOUTH COLONY
JAMES DEETZ AND
PATRICIA SCOTT DEETZ
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Text designer: Diana Blume
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Deetz, James. |
The times of their lives:life,and death in Plymouth |
Colony / James Deetz and Patricia Scott Deetz. |
p. cm. |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN 0-7167-3830-9 |
1. MassachusettsNew Plymouth, 16201691. |
2. MassachusettsSocial conditions17th century. |
3. MassachusettsSocial life and customsTo 1775. |
4. Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony)Social conditions. |
5. Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony)Social life and customs. |
I. Deetz, Patricia E. Scott. II. Title. |
F68.D4 2000 |
974.8'202dc21 |
00-042947 |
2000 by James Deetz and Patricia Scott Deetz. All rights reserved
No part of this book may be reproduced by any mechanical, photographic, or electronic process, or in the form of a phonographic recording, nor many it stored in a retrieval system, transmitted, or otherwise copied for public or private use, without the written permission of the publisher.
Printed in the United States of America
Second printing, 2001
W. H. FREEMAN AND COMPANY
41 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10010
Houndmills, Basingstoke RG21 6XS England
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To HARRY HORNBLOWER AND TED AVERY
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Thus out of small beginnings greater things have been produced by His hand and, as one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto many, yea in some sort to our whole nation.
William Bradford, 1630
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Contents
Illustrations | vi
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Preface | xi
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Acknowledgments | xv
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1 | PARTAKERS OF OUR PLENTY: THE PILGRIM MYTH | 1
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2 | I WILL HARRY THEM OUT OF THE LAND! THE EARLY YEARS, 16061627 | 31
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3 | THERE BE WITCHES TOO MANY: GLIMPSES OF THE SOCIAL WORLD | 81
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4 | IN AN UNCIVIL MANNER: SEX-RELATED CRIMES, VIOLENCE & DEATH | 131
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5 | A FEW THINGS NEEDFUL: HOUSES AND FURNISHINGS | 171
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6 | STILL STANDING IN THE GROUND: THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF EARLY PLYMOUTH | 211
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7 | THE TIME OF THEIR LIVES: PLIMOTH PLANTATION | 273
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Sources and Notes | 293
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Index | 354 |
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Illustrations
CHAPTER 1
p.1 | Mr. and Mrs. West, Viewing the Rock on which our Fore-Father's Landed at Plymouth. Early nineteenth-century woodcut depicting Plymouth Rock as a larger-than-life symbol of the achievements of the Pilgrim Fathers. Frontispiece to Lucy Brewer's The Awful Beacon (Boston, 1816). Courtesy, American Antiquarian Society. |
pp.12,13 | Some early graphic representations of the landing at Plymouth in 1620 and the first Thanksgiving. Top left: The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers, after Charles Lucy, ca. 1850. Courtesy, Pilgrim Society. Top right: The Landing of the Pilgrims, by Henry A. Bacon, 1877. Courtesy, Pilgrim Society. Bottom left: The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers, parody of the engraving by Charles Lucy, ca. 1885. Courtesy, American Antiquarian Society. Bottom right: The First Thanksgiving, by Henry Botkin, ca. 1920. Courtesy, Pilgrim Society. |
CHAPTER 2
p. 31 | Woodcut of early-seventeenth-century sailing ship. From John Leech, Iami sperantis strena calendis Januarii (Edinburgh, 1617). By permission of the Folger Shakespeare Library. |
p. 38 | Jennie Brownscombe's Landing of the Pilgrims, ca. 1920, dominated by Mary Chilton. Courtesy, Pilgrim Society. |
p. 40 | Map showing part of Cape Cod, 16201626. From Of Plymouth Plantation 16201647 by William Bradford, Samuel Eliot Morison (Ed.). Copyright 1952 by Samuel Eliot Morison and renewed 1980 by Emily M. Beck. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a Division of Random House Inc. |
p. 56 | Samuel de Champlains chart of Port Saint-Louis (Plymouth). From The Works of Samuel de Champlain , H. P. Biggar (Gen. Ed.), 6 vols. (The Champlain Society, 19221936), vol. 2, Les Voyages, Book 11 (1613). Courtesy, Harvard College Library. |
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p. 66 | William Bradford's plan of the original layout of Plymouth. From Plimouths Great Book of Deeds of Lands Enrolled from An 1627 to An 1651. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England, David Pulsifer (Ed.), Deeds, &c. Vol. 1, 16201651 (Boston: William White, 1861; New York: AMS Press reprint, 1968), vol. 12, p. 2. |
p. 70 | Captain John Smith's map of New England, 1616. Courtesy, Edward E. Ayer Collection, The Newberry Library, Chicago. |
p. 76 | Map of the Colony of New Plymouth, 16201650, with adjacent settlements. From Of Plymouth Plantation 16201647 by William Bradford, Samuel Eliot Morison (Ed.). Copyright 1952 by Samuel Eliot Morison and renewed 1980 by Emily M. Beck. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a Division of Random House Inc. |
CHAPTER 3
p. 81 | Witches flying up chimney on broomsticks. Woodcut from Thomas Erastus, Dialogues touchant le pouvoir des sorcies et de la punition qu'elles mritent(Geneva, 1579). From Grillot de Givry, A Pictorial Anthology of Witchcraft, Magic & Alchemy(Spottiswode, Ballantyne, 1931; University Books reprint, 1958), p. 64. The woodcut only appears as the frontispiece in some copies of Erastus's 1579 work. It represents a witches'house around the close of the sixteenth century. Four witches are leaving to fly to the diabolic Sabbath; a youth peers in through the keyhole from the outside, trying to obtain a glimpse of their secret actions. |
p. 83 | My passing-bell is tolling, Tolling sweetly, I lie dying, and my life is from me flying. From A very Godly Song, intitled, the Earnest Petition (1676) in The Roxburghe Ballads |
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