William Bradford and Edward Winslow · CatalogWilliam Bradford and Edward WinslowWilliam Bradford and Edward Winslow · CatalogMourt’s Relation was printed in London in 1622 with a preface signed “G. Mourt,” almost certainly George Morton, who commended the journal to English readers.
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Mourt’s Relation was printed in London in 1622 with a preface signed “G. Mourt,” almost certainly George Morton, who commended the journal to English readers. The narrative itself is the work of William Bradford and Edward Winslow, planters at Plymouth and eyewitnesses of the first year it records.
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“Our harvest being gotten in, our governor sent four men on fowling, that so we might, after a special manner, rejoice together after we had gathered the fruit of our labors.”
“many of the Indians coming amongst us, and among the rest their greatest king, Massasoyt, with some ninety men, whom for three days we entertained and feasted ; and they went out and killed five deer, which they brought to the plantation, and bestowed on our governor, and upon the captain and others.”
Mourt’s Relation, printed in London in 1622, is the earliest published journal of the Plymouth plantation. It is usually so called from the preface signed “G. Mourt,” almost certainly George Morton, who commended the book to English readers.