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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 8: (search)
s. The carpenter made slow work, so that sixteen or seventeen weary days elapsed, before it was ready for service. But Standish and Bradford, and others, impatient of the delay, determined to explore the country by land. In regard to the danger, tn, nor any thing else but graves. At length, the shallop was again sent out, with Dec. 6. Carver, Bradford, Winslow, Standish, and others, with eight or ten seamen. The cold was severe; the spray of the sea froze as it fell on them, and made thenear the settlement, though disappearing when pursued. The colony, therefore, assumed a military organization; and 17. Standish, a man of the greatest courage, the devoted friend of the church, which he never joined, was appointed to the chief commn to his allies; and the planters at Weymouth were saved by the wisdom of the older colony and the intrepid gallantry of Standish. It was his capital exploit. Some of the rescued men went to Plymouth; some sailed for England. One short year saw th