![]() ![]() ![]() The Native American tribe on that coast was called the Patuxets, and a number of braves greeted the sailors who rowed ashore. Finally, Hunt’s ship set anchor off the coast of what is today Plymouth, Massachusetts. This story begins in approximately 1608, when an English ship with a Captain Hunt sailed south along the coast of what is now called Cape Cod. They hadn’t settled there, so we don’t remember them. “Most of us, of course, know the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620, but few of us realize numerous other white Europeans had earlier come to that part of North America to trade with the natives. Some details are in dispute, but the main points are not, and they are what concern us here. ![]() But few of us know the whole story, which beggars belief, though all of the historical documents exist to corroborate it. Most Americans have heard of Squanto, but usually just as someone who helped the Pilgrims plant corn using a fish for fertilizer. This image is from “Young Folks’ History of the United States,” published in 1903. ![]()
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