Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 2
1630-05-28
In the morninge the winde veered to the w: yet we had a stiffe gale, and steered n: w: and by n: it was so great a fogge all this daye, as we had lost 257sight of one of our shippes, and sawe the other some tymes muche to Leeward. we had many feirce showers of rayne, throughout this daye.
At night the miste cleered vp and we sawe bothe our Consortes faire by vs. so the winde beinge verye scante, we tacked and stoode w: and by S: Gli nollius is written in the margin, cryptic, perhaps, for “filius nullius,” i.e. a bastarda Childe was borne in the Jewell about this tyme
1630-05-29
The winde n: w: a stiffe gale, and faire weather, but verye colde in the afternoone full n: and towardes night n: and by E: so we stood w:
1630-05-30
The winde no: by E: a handsome gale but Close misty weather and very Colde, so our shippe made good waye in a smoothe sea: and our 3: shippes kept close togither, by our accompt we were in the same meridian with Ile Sable. and 42 ½.
1630-05-31
winde n: w: a smale gale, Close and Colde weather, we sounded but had no grounde: about noone the winde came N: b: E: a stiffe Constant gale, and faire weather so as our shippes waye was 7: 8: and sometymes 12 leag
Professor Robert W. Wilson computed that this solar eclipse would have been at its maximum about 2:30 P.M. viewed from the position of the Arbella at the time; but that at the maximum phase the diminution of the sun's disk would not have been noticeable unless one were looking for the eclipse at that time. By 3 P.M. the eclipse was practically over. Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, XII. 196.
1630-06-01
The winde N: E: a smale gale, with faire cleere weather, in the afternoone full S: and towardes night a good gale. we stood w: by n. a woman in our shippe fell in travayle and we sent and had a midwyfe out of the Jewell: she was so farre a head of vs at this tyme, (though vsually we could spare her some sayle) as we shott of a peece, and lowred our topsayles, and then she brayled1 her sayles and stayed for vs.
This eueninge we sawe the newe moone, more then halfe an hower after sune sett, being muche smaler then it is at any tyme in England.
Brail, to haul up.
N.E.D.
1630-06-02
The winde S: S: W: a handsome gale verye faire weather, but still Colde. in the eueninge a great fogge. we stood w: and by n: and w: n: w: Our Capt supposinge vs now to be neere the n: Coast, and knoing that to the S: there were dangerous shoales,1 fitted on a newe mainsayl that was verye stronge and double, and would not adventure with his olde sayles, as before when he had sea roome enoughe.
The Georges Shoals.