“Wessagussett Colony: Ill-conceived. Ill-executed. Ill-fated.” – Charles Francis Adams Jr., Massachusetts Historical Society In their second spring in the New World, when most crops in Plymouth Colony had barely sprouted from in the rocky soil, a small shallop arrived carrying ten men and some letters but “no victuals nor any hope of any”. The PlymouthContinue reading “The Forlorn Hope of Sixty Men”