The Wars and the Plague That Prepared a Place for the Pilgrims

by S. A. Cranfill | Mar 28, 2020 | 17th-Century British & American History, Braving the New World, Captain John Smith, Captain Thomas Dermer, European and British Colonization of America, Sir Ferdinando Gorges, The Pilgrims, The Year of the Mayflower

“An Extraordinary Plague”

This blog entry is dated March 28, 2020, so it is perhaps a pertinent time, as we Americans endure an unprecedented and rather peculiar quarantine, to explore a curious and historically important plague of four centuries ago.

In 1616, several years prior to the year of the Mayflower, an unseen enemy stalked (more…)