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Who were the Pilgrims? Far from the somberly clad, stern, and righteous figures children learn about in school, many of the early settlers of Plymouth actually dressed in bright colors, drank heavily, and often got into trouble. A surprising new look at Americas founding fathers and mothers, The Times of Their Lives presents a realistic, factual account of the Plymouth colony based on contemporary archaeology, cultural research, and living history. Taking little known trial transcripts, personal accounts, wills and probate records, as well as physical artifacts such as shards and spoons unearthed from old foundations, James and Patricia Deetz reveal what life in seventeenth century Plymouth was really like. In the process they blow the dust off the dull, wooden figures of tradition and show the people of Plymouth as vibrant individuals who lived out complex and colorful lives in a world profoundly different than our own. Beginning with an eyewitness account of the first Thanksgiving, The Times of Their Lives offers an often startling portrait of Plymouth Colony that includes aspects of the legal system, folk beliefs, family life, womens roles and gender issues, eating habits, alcohol use, sexual misconduct, domestic violence, suspicious deaths, and violent crimes. The result is an impeccably researched and highly imaginative work that shakes up our view of one of the most cherished myths of American history.

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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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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

Illustrationsvi
Prefacexi
Acknowledgmentsxv
1PARTAKERS OF OUR PLENTY: THE PILGRIM MYTH1
2I WILL HARRY THEM OUT OF THE LAND! THE EARLY YEARS, 1606162731
3THERE BE WITCHES TOO MANY: GLIMPSES OF THE SOCIAL WORLD81
4IN AN UNCIVIL MANNER: SEX-RELATED CRIMES, VIOLENCE & DEATH131
5A FEW THINGS NEEDFUL: HOUSES AND FURNISHINGS171
6STILL STANDING IN THE GROUND: THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF EARLY PLYMOUTH211
7THE TIME OF THEIR LIVES: PLIMOTH PLANTATION273
Sources and Notes293
Index354

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Illustrations

CHAPTER 1
p.1Mr. 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.12,13Some 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. 31Woodcut of early-seventeenth-century sailing ship. From John Leech, Iami sperantis strena calendis Januarii (Edinburgh, 1617). By permission of the Folger Shakespeare Library.
p. 38Jennie Brownscombe's Landing of the Pilgrims, ca. 1920, dominated by Mary Chilton. Courtesy, Pilgrim Society.
p. 40Map 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. 56Samuel 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. 66William 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. 70Captain John Smith's map of New England, 1616. Courtesy, Edward E. Ayer Collection, The Newberry Library, Chicago.
p. 76Map 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. 81Witches 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. 83My 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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