. History of Plymouth County, Massachusetts : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men. s cir-cumstance is to be considered, together with all thefacts in the case, in deciding whether the Pilgrimsreally deviated, for any cause, from the intendedvoyage, or whether their destination, when they finallyleft England, was not left iu doubt, to be deter-mined by circumstances as they might afterwardsarise. While the company were at Southampton two let-ters were received from Robinson full of tender adviceand counsel, iu one of which he said, Whereas youare become a body p
. History of Plymouth County, Massachusetts : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men. s cir-cumstance is to be considered, together with all thefacts in the case, in deciding whether the Pilgrimsreally deviated, for any cause, from the intendedvoyage, or whether their destination, when they finallyleft England, was not left iu doubt, to be deter-mined by circumstances as they might afterwardsarise. While the company were at Southampton two let-ters were received from Robinson full of tender adviceand counsel, iu one of which he said, Whereas youare become a body politic, usiug among yourselvescivil government, and are not furnished with any per-sons of special eminence above the rest, to be chosenby you into office of government, let your wisdomand godliness appear not only in choosing such per-sons as do entirely love and will promote the commongood, but also in yielding unto them all due honorand obedience in their lawful administrations ; notbeholding iu them the ordinariness of their persous,but Gods ordiuance for your good, not being like the =8 2S> IP© Gil Si. HISTORY OP PLYMOUTH. 61 foolish multitude who more honor the gay coat thaneither the virtuous mind of the man or glorious ordi-nance of the Lord. The letters were addressed toCarver as one apparently in authority ; and as Brad-ford states that a Governor and two or three assist-ants for each ship were chosen to order the peopleby the way, and see to the disposing of their posses-sions, it is probable that Carver was chosen Governorof the party on board the Mayflower, and thatafter the detachment of the Speedwell he was rec-ognized as the Governor of the whole company. With one hundred and two passengers, then, the Mayflower arrived in Cape Cod harbor, and thefollowing is a list of the company, exclusive of thoseattached to the vessel as officers and seamen: I John Carver. Died in April, Carver, his wife. Died the first Minter. Returned to E
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