...Plymouth, where I then commanded. Three of whose natives, namely, Manida, Skettwarroes, and Tisquantum, I seized upon. They were all of one nation, but of several parts and several families." It is impossible that Sir Ferdinando should have been mistaken in the names of those he received from...

...says of the kidnapping of the Indians, — -"This accident must be acknowledged to be the means of God of putting on foot and giving life to all our plantations."" Two years later the Popham colony was sent out and Skitwarroes, with them, returned to his native shores....

...Gorges writes of them that when they landed at Plymouth, England, he seized them and, further, that they were all of one nation but of several parts and several families, and concludes, "This accident must be acknowledged the means, under God, of putting on foot and giving...

...himself says of the kidnapping of the Indians, — "This accident must be acknowledged to be the means of God of putting on foot and giving life to all our plantations."" Two years later the Popham colony was sent out and Skitwarroes, with them, returned to his native shores....

...his day both a participant in Ralegh's Guiana Expedition and a Cavalier in the Great Civil War — "must be acknowledged the means, under God, of putting on foot and giving life to our plantation." (Ever since the sojourn in England — some eleven years later — of poor Pokahontas,...

...interested in Waymouth and his captives, three of whom he took into his family. These captives, he says, "must be acknowledged the means under God of putting on foot and giving life to all our plantations." The captives told Gorges of the "goodly rivers" and the "stately harbors" of America, of the different...

...imperfectly understood), were, according to Sir Ferdinando Gorges, the future Lord Proprietor of Maine, "the means under God of putting on foot and giving life to all our plantations." In 1606 charters were granted to two companies, one called the London Company, and the other the Plymouth...

...from a voyage to America ; " which accident," says. Sir Ferdinande Gorges, " must be acknowledged as the means under God of putting on foot and giving life to our plantations." Among the most active and influential men in putting this movement on foot were Sir...

...river Penobscot, from whence he carried to England five of the natives, "three of whom," says Gorges, "I seized upon ; they were all of one nation, but...putting on foot and giving life to all our plantations." He retained these Indians in his family three years, and obtained from them much information respecting...

...(reprinted in James P. Baxter, Sir Ferdinando Gorges and His Province of Maine, 3 vols. Boston, 1890): They were all of one nation, but of several parts...on foot, and giving life to all our Plantations.' Probably both Heriot and Smith interviewed the two Algonkians in London; certainly the desire to settle...