Quotes standard primary sources and portrays the Indian as the
“first settler” in the New World; nothing new is presented in the
way of ethnographic data.
2. Altham, Emmanuel, “Emmanuel Altham to Sir Edward Altham, March
1623/1624; Emmanuel Altham to James Sherley, May, 1624,” letters in
James, THREE VISITORS, etc.
Relevant information not extensive; concerns general appearance,
polygyny, distribution of Indian settlements in Plymouth region,
Massasoit, and Indian guests and their dances on the occasion of
Bradford’s wedding.
3. Anonymous, “A Description of Mashpee,” MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL
SOCIETY COLLECTIONS, Series 2, Vol. III, 1846.
A 1767 account of general census and welfare information.
4. Anonymous, “Saconet Indians,” MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY
COLLECTIONS, Series 1, Vol. X, 1809.
18th century population records; no ethnographic information.
5. Archer, Gabriel, Archer’s Narrative of the Gosnold Voyage:
(information may be found in H. Howe, PROLOGUE TO NEW ENGLAND).
Contains a brief description of the general appearance of the
Nausett Indians in the second year of the 17th. century.