As preserved in the archives of Plymouth Colony, A.D. 1621 In the year of our Lord 1621, when the settlers of Plymouth Plantation had endured the harsh and unrelenting bite of their first winter, they found themselves in the throes of hunger and despair. The wilderness surrounding them was vast and unyielding, and though they had established cordial relations with the Wampanoag people, the settlers’ knowledge of survival in this new land remained sorely lacking. Yet it is in the […]