Subject:  American Minute - Sept. 29 - Squanto
Date:  Fri, 28 Sep 2007 20:19:21 -0500
American Minute with Bill Federer

September 29

Governor William Bradford called him "a special instrument sent of
God."

Of 102 Pilgrims that landed November 1620, only half survived till
spring - then appeared Squanto.

Bradford wrote:

"Squanto was a native of these parts...one of the few survivors of
the plague...

He was carried away with others by one Hunt, a captain of a ship, who
intended to sell them for slaves in Spain; but he got away for
England, and was received by a merchant in London, employed in
Newfoundland... and lastly brought into these parts by a Captain
Dermer."

Bradford continued

"Squanto stayed with them and was their interpreter...He showed them
how to plant corn, where to take fish and other commodities, and
guided them to unknown places...Nor was there a man among them who
had ever seen a beaver skin till they were instructed by Squanto."

Bradford wrote that in LATE SEPTEMBER 1622:

"Winds drove their boat in...they could not get round the shoals of
Cape Cod...so they put into Manamoick Bay...

Here Squanto fell ill of Indian fever, bleeding much at the nose,
which the Indians take for a symptom of death...

He begged the Governor to pray for him, that he might go to the
Englishmen's God in Heaven...His death was a great loss."



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