The Mayflower And Her Log, Complete, By Azel Ames


























































































































































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                         THE SPEEDWELL'S LOG


Sunday, July 23/Aug. 2.
                              On the German Ocean.  Wind fair. General
                              course D.W., toward Southampton - Page 14
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THE SPEEDWELL'S LOG

Sunday, July 23/Aug.

2. On the German Ocean. Wind fair. General course D.W., toward Southampton. sails set, running free.

Monday, July 24/Aug. 3. Fair. Wind moderate. Dover Straits English Channel. In sight Dover Cliffs.

Tuesday, July 25/Aug. 5 Hugging English shore. Enters Southampton Water.

Wednesday, July 26/Aug. 5. Came to anchor in Port of Southampton near ship MAYFLOWER of Yarmouth, from London (to which this pinnace is consort), off the north of the West Quay.'

Thursday, July 27/Aug. 6. At anchor in port of Southampton.

Friday, July 28/Aug. 7. Lying at anchor at Southampton.

Saturday, July 29/Aug. 8. Lying at Southampton. MAY-FLOWER ready for sea, but pinnace leaking and requires re-trimming.

Sunday, July 30/Aug. 9. Lying at Southampton.

Monday, July 31/Aug. 10. Ditto.

Tuesday, Aug. 1/11. Ditto.

Wednesday, Aug. 2/22. Ditto. Pinnace leaking. Re-trimmed again.

Thursday, Aug 3/13. Ditto. Receiving passengers, etc. Some of principal Leyden men assigned to SPEEDWELL.

Friday, Aug. 4/14 Southampton. Making ready to leave.

Saturday, Aug. 5/55. Dropped down Southampton Water and beat down Channel. Wind dead ahead. Laid general course W.S.W.

Sunday, Aug. 6/16. Wind baffling. Beating down Channel.

Monday, Aug. 7/17. Ditto.

Tuesday, Aug. 8/18. Ditto. Ship leaking.

Wednesday, Aug. 9/19. Ship leaking badly. Wind still ahead.

Thursday, Aug. 10/20. Ship still leaking badly. Gaining on pumps. Hove to. Signalled MAY-FLOWER, in company. Consultation with Captain Jones and principal passengers. Decided vessels shall put back, Dartmouth, being nearest convenient port. Wore ship and laid course for Dartmouth with good wind.

Friday, Aug. 11/21. Wind fair. Ship leaking badly.

Saturday, Aug. 12/22. Made port at Dartmouth MAY-FLOWER in company. Came to anchor near MAY-FLOWER.

Sunday, Aug. 13/23. Lying at anchor, Dartmouth harbor.

Monday, Aug. 14/24. Moving cargo and overhauling and retrimming ship.

Tuesday, Aug. 15/25. Lying at Dartmouth. At on ship.

Wednesday, Aug. 16/26. Ditto. Found a plank feet long loose and admitting water freely, as at a mole hole. Seams opened some.

Thursday, Aug. 17/27. Lying at Dartmouth. Some dissension among chief of passengers. Ship's "Governor" unsatisfactory.

Friday, Aug. 18/28. Lying at Dartmouth. Still at work on ship.

Saturday, Aug. 19/29. Still lying at Dartmouth.

Sunday, Aug. 20/30. Lying at Dartmouth.

Monday, Aug. 21/31 Still at Dartmouth. Overhauling completed. Cargo relaced. Making ready to go to sea.

Tuesday, Aug. 22/Sept. 1. Still at Dartmouth. Lying at anchor ready for sea.

Wednesday, Aug. 23/Sept. 2. Weighed anchor,' as did also MAY-FLOWER, and set sail. Laid general course W.S.W. Wind fair

Thursday, Aug. 24/Sept.3. Fair wind, but ship leaking.

Friday, Aug. 25/Sept. 4. Wind fair. Ship leaking dangerously. MAY-FLOWER in company.

Saturday, Aug. 26/Sept. 5. About 100 leagues [300 miles] from Land's End. Ship leaking badly. Hove to. Signalled MAY-FLOWER, in company. Consultation between masters, carpenters, and principal passengers. Decided to put back into Plymouth and determine whether pinnace is seaworthy. Put about and laid course for Plymouth.

Sunday, Aug. 27/Sept. 6. Wind on starboard quarter. Made Plymouth harbor and came to anchor. MAY-FLOWER in company.

Monday, Aug. 28/Sept. 7. At anchor in Plymouth harbor. Conference of chief of Colonists and officers of MAY-FLOWER and SPEEDWELL. No special leak could be found, but it was judged to be the general weakness of the ship, and that she would not prove sufficient for the voyage. It was resolved to dismiss her the SPEEDWELL, and part of the company, and proceed with the other ship.

Tuesday, Aug. 29/Sept. 8 Lying at Plymouth. Transferring cargo.

Wednesday, Aug. 30/Sept. 9 Lying at Plymouth. Transferring cargo.

Saturday, Sept. 2/12 Ditto. Reassignment of passengers. Master Cushman and family, Master Blossom and son, Wm. Ring and others to return in pinnace to London.

Sunday, Sept. 3/13 At anchor in Plymouth roadstead.

Monday, Sept. 4/14 Weighed anchor and took departure for London, leaving MAY-FLOWER at anchor in roadstead.

Saturday, Sept. 9/19 Off Gravesend. Came to anchor in Thames.

THE END OF THE VOYAGE AND OF THE LOG OF THE MAY-FLOWER'S CONSORT

From Bradford we learn that the SPEEDWELL was sold at London, and was "refitted", her old trip being restored, and that she afterwards made for her new owners many and very prosperous voyages.

CHAPTER III

THE MAY-FLOWER'S CHARTER AND THE ADVENTURERS

The ship MAY-FLOWER was evidently chartered about the middle of June, 1620 at London, by Masters Thomas West Robert Cushman acting together in behalf of the Merchant Adventurers (chiefly of London) and the English congregation of "Separatists" (the "Pilgrims"), at Leyden in Holland who, with certain of England associated, proposed to colony in America.

Professor Arber, when he says, in speaking of Cushman and Weston, "the hiring of the MAY-FLOWER, when they did do it, was their act alone, and the Leyden church nothing to do with it," seems to forget that Cushman and his associate Carver had no other function or authority in their conjunction with Weston and Martin, except to represent the Leyden congregation. Furthermore, it was the avowed wish of Robinson (see his letter dated June 14, 1620, to John Carver), that Weston "may [should] presently succeed in hiring" [a ship], which was equivalent to hoping that Carver and Cushman - Weston's associates representing Leyden - would aid in so doing. Moreover, Bradford expressly states that: "Articles of Agreement, drawn by themselves were, by their [the Leyden congregation's] said messenger [Carver] sent into England, who together with Robert Cushman were to receive moneys and make provisions, both for shipping, and other things for the voyage."

Up to Saturday, June 10, nothing had been effected in the way of providing shipping for the migrating planters though the undertaking had been four months afoot - beyond the purchase and refitting, in Holland, by the Leyden people themselves, of a pinnace of sixty tons (the SPEEDWELL) intended as consort to a larger ship - and the hiring of a "pilott" to refit her, as we have seen.

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