Scope and Content: Phineas Pratt came from England to the New Plymouth Colony in 1622, along with others backed by Thomas Weston. The party then left to colonize Wessagusset (later Weymouth) to the north.  After difficulties with native Americans, they abandoned the settlement, and Pratt returned to Plymouth in 1623. This series is his account of the incident.
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Notes: Quoted in William Bradford’s History of Plymouth Plantation, the ms. was presented to the Massachusetts General Court in 1662. Some two centuries later It was rediscovered in the State House by Richard Pulsifer, who gave it to Richard C. Frothingham, Jr., for transcription and editing under the auspices of the Massachusetts Historical Society in 1858.  Evidently returned to Pulsifer, found in his effects at his death, and thereupon placed in the custody of the Maine Historical Society, it was restored by the society to the Commonwealth of   Massachusetts in 1975
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