See page 199, note 1. Thomas Prince, quoting from some records now lost, gives a good description of the prevalence of the sicknesses described by Dudley (see note to letter of John Winthrop under date of November 29, 1630): “. . . many people arrive sick of the scurvy, which increases for want of houses, and by reason of wet lodging in their cottages having no fresh food to cherish them. And though the people are very pitiful and loving, yet the sickness with other distempers so prevails, that the well are not able to tend them. Upon which many die, and are buried about the Hill [at Charlestown]; yet it was admirable to see with what christian courage many carey it amidst these calamities.” Thomas Prince, A Chronological History of New England (Boston, 1826), 310. For Dudley's account, see Young, Chronicles of Massachusetts, 316–319.