Hello everyone and welcome to the History of England episode 367 New England.

Okay so here we are again at the final installment of my quartet of episodes on the English in the

Americas and this time it's New England's 10 look at walk hopefully with a bit on the most

glorious character and a bit of Dutch stuff to boot. I might start if you will forgive me with

an indigenous man called Tisquanton. Often known to history I believe as Quanto in this I confess to

be following the trajectory of Charles Mann's book 1491 just so you've got a reference.

It is a useful place to start because we can maybe begin with the country into which the brave and

hope for English colonists were to enter. Tisquanton belonged to the Pattoxet band of the Wampanoag

people on the eastern seaboard. It's just north of Martha's Vignade that you know darling across the bay

from Cape Cod. It's where the rising sun hits the North American continent first for a time

and so the area was also known as Daunland and Tisquanton's fellows as the people of the first light

which is a lovely name to have. You might think of a suitable name for your own neighborhood

on the same basis. North, North, North, Coast, Wells might be people of the wind stripped flesh

just for example. New England and the Northeast was well populated at this time with

maybe as many a hundred thousand people. But the world Tisquanton was born into was politically not

similar to Virginia or the lands to the North and West because there was no Confederacy formed there

and in fact it is possible that early contacts with Europeans had actually accentuated the

rivalries between indigenous peoples. Rivalry to control the trade with the mainly Dutch and

French traders especially in metal goods. They were exchanged for thers. The Algonquin speaking

peoples along the coast, Massachusetts in the north of New England, the Wampanoag and the Peacot

in the south seemed to have become the middlemen in trade between the Europeans and rivals such as

Narragansett and Mohiggans further west. The English also had plenty of trading contact with the

...