Show I Wie Did tie Pilgrim FatherLand I Father-Land at Pljmtitii Up to the 29th it had beenall un cstaintj and iu ika records there ii nowhere the least allusion to an 1 particular spot having been selected or to any particular spot having been visited by that party in the S oZtop History and tradition eeem to be in entire accord Boms other date then than the Slat mast be looked for w the date for their landing That memorable day was not this Wednesday the 80th when posses sion wet taken of r Plymouth and twenty of the people remained there The nest morning says the careful journalist U being Thursday the 21 31st N 8 1 of December it was stormie wett that wee could not goe ashore But this is a qualification qualifica-tion only of the preceding statement in the same sentence of the resolution resolu-tion of the night before resolving in the morning to come all ashore to build houses That wee could notjgoe ashore does not mean that nobody no-body did so but tbat the purpose of a general landing was frustrated by the bad weather for before noon of this day as we are told before the paragraph para-graph is finished lithe shallop went off with much adoe with provision from the ship On Friday even this was impossible but on Sunday the storm abated and then so many as could went on shorefelled and carried ymber to provide themselves stuSe for building So many as could but not the whole This careful and reiterated distinction between the whole and apart a-part can hardly have been without a purpose but whether it was or not ie get at the exac ractthe appointment appoint-ment of a time for the disembakation of the whole company and its delay from day to day by the storm The went which tradition perpetuatesthe enrnalist whether he meant to or not carefully distinguishes the lauding laud-ing of all the Pilgrim Farthers not apart a-part of them upon Plymouth Rook Turn once more to Mourta Relation ion Monday the 25th day we vent on shore some to fell tymber some to saw some to riue rive some to carry so no man rested all hat day Here we means the vhole company all on that day anded upon the Rock all for the irst time took part in the new home no man rested all that day Turn hen to Bradfords History He relates ates succinctly the sailing from Pro rincetown harbor and the arrival in Plymouth bay And afterwards le continues they tooke better view of ye place and resolved wher to pitch their dwelling and ye 25 day > egane to erecte ye first house for omone usa to receive them and their goods It was they the whole body > of the colonists who resolved her to pitch their dwellings after coming from Proviri etown harbor iota pioneer party who visited the bay before And surely Bradford knew for he was one of that party in the hallop Indeed it is probably Brad ord who wrote the Relation as well as the History This then was the day which thirty or forty years afterward the boy Faunce heard the old men talk bout as the day they landed from tbe Mayflower upon Plymouth Rock it l was the distinction of being the first o leap ashore on this day when for the 1 first time the women seem to have eft the ship at Plymouth that is iven by tradition to Mary Chilton and John Aldenthe 25th of December Decem-ber 1620 which in New Style fall pon the 4th of January 1621 IS |