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1630-06-03
The winde still S: by w: a good steddy gale, and we stood w: and b: n: the fogge continued verye thicke, and some rayne withall. we sounded in the morninge and again at noone, and had no grounde. we sounded again about 2: after noone, and had grounde about 80: fath
the fogge continued all this night, and a steddy gale at S: w:
The Arbella at this time must have been almost directly south of Halifax, N. S.
1630-06-04
About 4: in the morninge we tacked againe (the winde S: w.) and stood w: n: w: The fogge continued all this daye, so as we could not see a stones cast from vs, yet the sunne shone verye bright all the daye. we sounded everye 2: howres, but had no grounde.
In the great Cabbin fast.
1630-06-05
In the morninge the winde came to N: E: a handsome gale and the fogge was dispersed, so we stood before the winde w: and by n: all the afternoone beinge raynye: at night we sounded, but had no grounde.
In the great Cabbin thanksgiving.
It rayned most parte of this night, yet our Capt kept abroad, and was forced to come in in the night to shifte his Clothes.
we sounded everye halfe watche, but had no grounde.
June1630 Lordes day 6:
1630-06-06
The winde n: E: and after n: a good gale, but still foggye at tymes, and Colde. we stood w: n: w: bothe to make cape Sable if we might, and also because of the Current, which neerSoutherne shoales. viz of Cape Cod.1
About 2: in the after noone we sounded, and had grounde at about 80: fat
we sawe the shore to the n: about 5: or 6: lew s: w: of cape Sable, and in 43: ¼. towardes night it calmed and was foggye againe, and the winde came S: and by E: we tacked and stood w: and by n: intendinge to make lande at Aquamenticus
2 beinge to the n: of the Iles of Shoale s
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See Ware, “Winthrop's Course,” Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, XII. 197.
York, Maine; this is in different ink of a paler color: the capital A is not certainly Winthrop's. Having made his landfall at Cape Sable, and verified his position, it was evidently Captain Milborne's intention to sail straight across the Gulf of Maine on the same parallel, in order to avoid the Georges Shoals. The westerly winds prevented this.
1630-06-07
The winde at 30: fath
tooke, in lesse then 2: howers, with a fewe hooks, 67: Coddfishe most of them, verye great fishe some 1: yd and ½ long and a yd in Compasse. this came verye seasonably for our salt fishe was now spent, and we were taking care for victualls this daye (beinge a fishe daye.1
After this we filled our sayles, and stood w n: w: with a smale handsome cancelledwe hoysed out a great boate to keepe our sounding the better The weather was now verye Colde: we sounded at 8: and had 50: fath
A woman was deliuered of a Childe in our shippe still borne: the woman had diverse children before, but none liued, and she had some mischance now which caused her to come neere a monthe before her tyme, but she did verye well.
At one of the Clocke we had a freshe gale at n: w: and verye faire weather all that afternoone, and warme but the winde failed soone.
All the night the winde was w: and by S: a stiffe gale, which made vs stande to and againe, with smale advantage.
The only reason for Winthrop's calling Monday, June 7, 1630, a “fish day,” would be, perhaps, some methodical arrangement of the passengers' diet by calendar.