Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 2
1630-11-27
Three of the Governors servantes were from this daye to the 1: of Decr abroad in his skiffe amonge the Ilandes in bitter froste and snowe, (beinge kept from home by the n: w: winde, and without victualls, at lengthe they got to mount Woollaston,1 and lefte their boat there and came home by lande. laus Deo.
The site of Morton's Merry-Mount, in Quincy, Mt. Wollaston was named, according to Bradford, after a “Captaine Wolastone,” who started a plantation at that place about 1625 and subsequently removed to Virginia. Bradford, History of Plymouth (1912), II. 45–47.