Note 14 — PART I Financing the Plymouth Colony

The leaders of the adventurers named by Peirce in his Chancery suit were James Sherley, John Pocock, Christopher Coulson, William Collier, John Thornell, and George [Robert] Keane, New Eng. Hist. Gen. Reg., LXVII, 149. Usher, The Pilgrims and Their History, 147–148, and John A. Goodwin, The Pilgrim Republic (Boston, 1888), 252–254, sum up the misadventures of the Little James. The original evidence is in Bradford, History, ed. Ford, I, 341–346, 350–351, 403–405, 433–435. Additional details are in the Admiralty suit of two crew members, Stephens and Fell, Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., LXI, 148–151; H. C. A., Instance and Prize Court, Libel Files, Bundle 82, no. 124 (Library of Congress transcript). An effort to locate this document in the Public Record Office under this reference was unsuccessful.