Note 49 — PART II Plymouth Reorganizes Financially

Recs. Mass. Bay, II, 39; Bradford, History, ed. Ford, II, 333n., paid for Andrews are £490 or £534 9s. See Aspinwall Notarial Records, 1644–51 (Boston, 1903), 21, Allerton’s acquittance. On former prosperity and drop in cattle prices, Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation, ed. Morison, 252–253, 310; W. B. Weeden, Economic and Social History of New England (Boston, 1891), I, 165–166; Winthrop’s Journal, II, 17, 23, 25. Recs. Plymouth Col., XII, 90, 127–132, agreements with Edmund Freeman, Beauchamp’s attorney. Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation, ed. Morison, 428ff., Bradford’s surrender of patent. Winthrop Papers, III, 167, on Plymouth’s pre-eminence in fur trade; G. F. Willison, Saints and Strangers (New York, 1945) and Hale, Pelts and Palisades, describe the expansion and decline of the fur trade. See “Plymouth Colony, Wills and Inventories,” 1650–59, 105, 110, Bradford’s Kennebec stock; Recs. Plymouth Col., I, III, VII, later fur trade and Kennebec.