Welcome to the History of the Americans podcast, episode 83.

I'm your host, Jack Heneman.

I'm recording this on August 10th, 2022, in a secure, undisclosed location outside of Tupper Lake, New York.

If you are new to the podcast, we are telling the history of the lands now encompassed by the United States from the beginning without presentism.

So I thought that it was great to get those pictures from Pilgrim Spring in the Provincetown area for last week's episode.

If you looked at the post for the episode on the website, The History of the Americans.com,

you saw that Adam Page's photo was the featured image for the episode.

If you are a listener and have photos that are relevant to a current episode or even one we have

done in the past, please send them along with permission to use them on the website.

It shouldn't be too hard to guess the timeline over the next few months, but we will certainly

have more to say about Plymouth, the Pilgrims, and the Wampanoag.

And we'll go back to

Jamestown for Opa Kanan's War, and we'll spend some time looking at New Netherland,

which is coming at us quickly. So keep the emails coming, and I'd love to see more pictures

for those of you who are nearby, irrelevant historical sites, or maybe were nearby

those sites.

We have reached December 1620, a new high watermark on our timeline.

Woo-hoo! The pilgrims have decided on the location for their first settlement.

Unbeknownst to them, the legal status of their venture in doubt, because Master Christopher Jones and the Mayflower failed to navigate the Pollock Rip and turn back to Provincetown, has actually improved.

Their original patent authorized settlement at the mouth of the Hudson River, in the northern lands of London's Virginia Company, the same enterprise

in charge of the settlements that had grown out of Jamestown. So the pilgrims weren't in the right

place, legally speaking. On November 3, 1620, Sir Fernando Gorge's, one of the founders of the Popham

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