Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 2Note: you've followed an index reference to a note that, due to changes between the print and digital editions, may no longer be on page 259. Please look at all notes at the end of the document or documents on page 259.

mundaye 7:

Winthrop, John

1630-06-07

The winde one letter cancelled S: about 4: in the morninge we 259sounded and had grounde at 30: fath oms and was somewhat Calme, so we putt our shippe a stayes and 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 substituted for handsome cancelled gale. ~~we 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 oms and being Calme we heaved out our hookes againe and took 26: Coddes, so we all feasted with fish that daye.

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.

Teusday 8.

Winthrop, John

1630-06-08

The winde still w: and by S: faire weather, but close and colde. we stood n: n: w: with a stiffe gale, and about 3: in the afternoone we had sight of lande to the n: w: about ten: ten written above a cancelled figure 8 leagues which we supposed we supposed inserted later was the Iles of monhegen:1 but it proved mount mansell: 2 then we tacked and stood w: s: w: we had now faire sunneshine weather, and so pleasant a sweet ayre, as did muche refreshe vs, and there came a smell off the shore two words cancelled like the smell of a garden.

there came a wild pigeon into our shippe and another small land birde.

As originally written, the portion of this sentence, beginning with “about” and ending with “monhegen,” read: “about 8 leagues which was the Iles of monhegen.”

Winthrop wrote in, above the line, and probably later: “but it proved otherwise.” Later still he struck out “otherwise” and inserted the words “mount mansell.” Mount Mansell was named for Sir Robert Mansell (1573–1656), a member of the Council for New England. For the record of his promise to pay £110 for the “discovery and Survey of Mount Mansell,” see Proceedings , The American Antiquarian Society, 1866–1868, “The Records of the Council for New England,” 71. The Indian name was Pemetig, or according to Parkman, Pioneers of France, 276, note, Pemetic; Champlain called the island Mt. Desert. For a good account of it, see 1 Collections , Maine Historical Society, 26–27.

260