OR,

THE JOURNAL OF THE PILGRIMS

AT PLYMOUTH, NEW ENGLAND, IN 1620.

WITH

HISTORICAL AND LOCAL ILLUSTRATIONS

OF

PRINCIPLES, PROVIDENCES, AND PERSONS.

BY

GEORGE B. CHEEVER, D.D.

Author of Wanderings of a Pilgrim in the Shadow of Mont Blanc and the Jungfrau Alp,
*Lectures on the Pilgrim's Progress, and on the Life and Times of John Bunyan,' etc.

PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM COLLINS,
NORTH MONTROSE STREET, GLASGOW,

AND PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON.

CONTENTS.

JOURNAL OF THE PILGRIMS.

To the Reader,

Dedication,

Preliminary Relation,

Journal,

The Journey to Packanokik,

The Expedition to Nauset, (Eastham,) for the Lost Boy,

The Expedition to Namaschet, or Middle-Borough,

Expedition to the Massachusetts,

Appendix,

HISTORICAL AND LOCAL ILLUSTRATIONS.

CHAPTER 1.

Principles, Providences, l'ersons.-The Colony of Principle, and

the Colony of Gain,

CHAPTER II.

The Virginia Company and the Merchant Adventurers,

CHAPTER III.

The Merchant Adventurers.-Articles of Agreement for the Trans-

portation of the Pilgrims-otherwise the Copartnership.-End

of the Company,

The Pilgrim Church in England, and the first Church Compact,

CHAPTER V.

Comparison of God's preparatory Providences.-The Plague among

the Savages.-Squanto, and the Pilgrim's Welcome,

The Pilgrim Church at Leyden, and the Pastor Robinson.-The Vine

brought out of Egypt, but not yet planted in the Wilderness, 127

CHAPTER VII.

The first New England Church and their Elder, William Brewster.

-The Vine brought out and planted,

CHAPTER VIII.

Congregational Constitution of the Pilgrim Church.--Correspon-

dence of Brewster and Robinson with the Council in England as

to their Principles.-Comparison of Congregationalism and

Hierarchism,

The first Civil Compact.-Toleration, Connivance, Liberty of Con-

science.-Foundations of the State.-Repetition of the free

Covenants.