The plantation at Plymouth continuing to flourish,
ships were loaded with furs, and other articles of the
country and sent to England ; a trade about this time was
opened with the Dutch at Manhattan, who sent articles
of merchandize to Manomet,* from which they were

received by the English, by an overland rout, thereby

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* Manomet is a creek running through Sandwich, entering Buzzard^s baj ; the
Indian town was situated on the creek, twenty oules south of Plymouth.
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avaiding the dangerous passage around Cape Cod. in
1628^ the English set up a trading house at Kennebec^
where they had obtained a patent of lands^ and a con-
siderable trade was maintained with the natives.
Prior to this time the planters at Plymouth, received
an account of the death of their much esteemed pastor,
Mr. John Robinson, at Ley den, March 1, 1625, in the
fiftieth year of his age. His arrival at Plymouth had
been expected for several years ; but the diflBculties at-
tending the voyage, and the poverty of his congregation
in Holland, are said to have prevented his removal.
