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THE NEWSLETTER OF THE SOCIETY OF DESCENDANTS IN WASHINGTON STATE VOLUME 19 ISSUE 2 - SUMMER 2006

TISQUANTUM,

MASSASOIT, GOVERNOR’S MESSAGE AND

By Caleb Johnson Just a note to say I hope that all are having a great Summer. Tisquantum This year we are trying out a new location for the Summer isquantum, nicknamed "" by the English, was a Meeting. It has been asked if we could find a location that native of , living at present-day ; the T would have more available things for our younger members to Patuxet belonged to the confederation of tribes. do. Nothing is really known about Squanto's early life. His history Camp Berachah appears to meet these requests. If all are picks up in 1614, when Captain and some of other satisfied, what we may do is alternate between the Easton ships under his command arrive to map and vicinity. Double K Ranch and Camp Berachah in Auburn. John Smith is perhaps better known for having been rescued by Let me or other Board members know your feelings after the Pocahontas at the Jamestown Colony several years earlier. After meeting in July. Smith completed his exploration and mapping of the , he You will note maps and directions on how to get to Camp departed, leaving behind an associate, Captain Thomas Hunt, to Berachah on the page opposite the Reservation Form. trade with the Indians.

John Smith had hopes of founding a plantation in New Eng- See you all there!! land, and so wanted to engage the Indians in trade. Thomas

Hunt, however, had other plans. Offering to trade beaver, Hunt

lured 24 and Patuxet Indians onboard his ship and took

them captive. John Smith would later write that Master Hunt

"most dishonestly, and inhumanely, for their kind usage of me Donald H Wingerson and all our men, carried them with him to Malaga, and there for Governor a little private gain sold those silly savages for rials of eight". Sir , head of the Council for New Eng- land, remembered it similarly: "one Hunt (a worthless fellow of our nation) set out by certain merchants for love of gain; who (not content with the commodity he had by the fish, and peacea- But outrage against Europeans would soon become a low ble trade he found among the savages) after he had made his priority amongst the Nauset and Patuxet. In 1618 and 1619, a dispatch, and was ready to set sail, (more savage-like than they) devastating plague, described variously in historical sources as seized upon the poor innocent creatures, that in confidence of either tuberculosis or smallpox (and perhaps a combination of his honesty had put themselves into his hands." both), wiped out the entire village at Patuxet, and many sur- Hunt stored the Indians below the hatches, and sailed them rounding areas were heavily hit. to the of , and on to the city of Malaga, Spain, One Patuxet did survive, however: Tisquantum. He had where he sold as many of them as he could. But when some somehow found himself passage from Malaga, Spain into Eng- local Friars in Malaga discovered that they had been brought land, where he began living with John Slaney in Cornhill, Lon- from America, they took custody of the remaining Indians, and don, and began picking up the English language. John Slaney instructed them in the Christian faith. As Sir Ferdinando Gorges was the treasurer of the Company which had states, the Friars "so disappointed this unworthy fellow of the managed to place a colony at Cupper's (Cupids), New- hopes of gain he conceived to make by this new and devilish foundland in 1610; he employed Tisquantum, presumably as an project." interpreter and as an expert on North American. natural re- The Nauset and Patuxet tribes were outraged by the kidnap- sources. He was sent to Newfoundland, and worked there with pings, and became extremely hostile. English and French ships Captain John Mason, governor of the Newfoundland Colony. visiting Plymouth and Cape Cod were no longer welcomed with While in Newfoundland, Tisquantum encountered a ship's cap- profitable beaver trade, as an unwitting French captain and crew tain by the name of , who had worked with would discover in 1617, when their ship was burned and almost (Continued on page 2) everyone killed (a few were enslaved) by the Nauset.

(Continued from page 1) Captain John Smith, perhaps even on the 1614 mapping expedi- WELCOME ABOARD! tion in which Squanto had been originally taken. Dermer was employed by the New Company, headed by Sir Ferdinando Gorges; they still had hopes to profit from bea-

ver trade with the Indians of : but this would not be new members possible as long as hostilities remained. Thomas Dermer recog- nized that Tisquantum, who had now been living with English- men for a number of years, could act as an interpreter and peace- Battle Ground (9) maker between the English and the still-enraged Indians of Patux- et and Nauset. He sent a letter off to Sir Ferdinando Gorges ex- Clayton Melville Kirkland Redmond (11) pressing the good use Tisquantum could be put to, and Gorges Kathryn Jean Forrest Bell had them come back to England to discuss their plans. Camano Island George Soule (9) In 1619, Captain Dermer and Tisquantum set off for New

David Shumway Bardue Seattle England, to attempt to make peace and re-establish trade with the William Brewster (13) Indians, and to map out the natural resources that could be ex- Colin Michael Garvey Covington (11) ploited by the Company. But upon arriving, they discovered Dachelle E Newton Pand Tisquantum's town, all the Patuxet, were dead from the plague. Spokane Valley Squanto did make contact with , and his brother Quade- William Bradford (12) Sandra Kay Brommer Walen quina, the heads of the Wampanoag Confederation, and in the Harrington Myles Standish (10) absence of his own people he took up residence with them. Steven Willard Frank Vancouver Their plan to make peace was foiled by the fact Tisquantum's William Mullins (13) Mary Diane Doty McCormick tribe had been wiped out, Dermer continued on to see if he could Issaquah (9) make peace with the Nauset. He was attacked and taken captive.

Sally Mills Montgomery Yakima Tisquantum, hearing about the incident, came to Dermer's rescue (10) and negotiated his release. Dermer would continue on south with- John William Hull Mercer Island William Brewster (12) out Tisquantum, where he was attacked again at Martha's Vine- yards: he would die of the wounds after reaching Jamestown, Anna Harris Klein Yakima Thomas Rogers (13) . Russell Denny Scofield Tisquantum's return home in 1619 was just in time for the Olympia (12) Mayflower Pilgrims, who pulled into Provincetown in Geraldine Page McCoy November 1620. The Pilgrims sent out their own exploration William Brewster (13) parties, and during their third expedition they were attacked in Puyallup camp early one morning by the Nauset. Shots were fired and ar- Donna Ann DeWitt Skogman rows flew heavily, but in the end nobody was injured and the

Stephen Hopkins (12) Nauset fled back into the woods. The Pilgrims continued their Reardan expedition around Cape Cod, eventually ending up in the aban- Edward Herman Brommer doned Patuxet territory, where they decided to settle (the area had been named Plymouth by John Smith on his 1614 mapping expe- dition). The Pilgrims lived out of the Mayflower, ferried back and forth to land to build their storehouses and living houses: they labored all through the winter months of December, January, February, and didn't start moving entirely to shore until March. And during that entire time, they saw almost no signs of any Indi- supplemental applications approved ans, aside from a few fires burning in the far distance. On March 16, they got a surprise: an Indian named Bothell - Richard Hutchins - Thomas Rogers (12), walked right into the Colony and welcomed them in broken Eng- Edward Fuller (13) (Continued on page 3) Bremerton - Bett Houston - John Alden (11) Marysville - Alton Rogers - (12). Puyallup - Martha McNeill - Thomas Rogers (10). EVERGREEN LOG University Place - Dorothy Hull - William Mullins (12), John Alden (11). EDITOR - Donald Wingerson 3700 32nd Avenue West, Seattle, WA 98199 [email protected]

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2 | EVERGREEN LOG SUMMER 2006 (Continued from page 2) lish. Samoset was from an Indian group in , and had picked up a few English words from the fisherman that came into the harbors there. He informed them there was an Indian, Tisquantum, who had been to England and could speak better English than he could. Tisquantum made his first appearance on book report , at which time he brought Massasoit and Quadequina. The Pilgrims used the opportunity to negotiate a peace treaty and to establish trading relations. Tisquantum would soon become an integral member of the HOW DID AMERICA , translating and negotiating between Plym- BEGIN? outh's governors (John Carver, and later William Bradford) and tribal leaders including Massasoit. Peace was made with the This simple question Nauset, with whom they had their initial conflict on Cape Cod, launches acclaimed author and peace was negotiated with a number of other Indian leaders on an within the Wampanoag Confederation. Tisquantum was a guide, extraordinary journey to taking the Pilgrim ambassadors to various locations, and help- understand the truth behind ing them establish trading relations. He also taught the Pilgrims our most sacred national how to better utilize the natural resources: how to catch eels, myth: the voyage of the and how to plant corn using fish caught from the town brook as Mayflower and the settlement of Plymouth Colony. As fertilizer. Philbrick reveals in this electrifying new book, the story of the But Squanto's new-found power soon began to corrupt him. Pilgrims does not end with the First ; instead, it is He realized that the Indians had a significant fear of the English, a fifty-five-year epic that is at once tragic and heroic, and still especially their guns and technology. He leveraged this fear for carries meaning for us today. his own private benefit, exacting tributes to put in a good word The account begins in the cold and dripping confines of the for someone, or by threatening to have the English release the Mayflower, where 102 passengers tensely await the conclusion plague against them. Squanto even went so far as trying to trick of an arduous, two-month voyage. The Pilgrims arrived in the Pilgrims into a show of military action, by claiming certain during a period of crisis for the Native Indian groups were in conspiracy together to fight the English: Americans as disease spread by European fishermen devastated but he went too far, and his treachery was discovered by both their populations. Initially the two groups — the , the Pilgrims and the Indians. under the charismatic and calculating leader Massasoit, and the When Massasoit learned that Squanto was abusing his power Pilgrims, whose pugnacious military officer Myles Standish and deceiving for personal gain, he ordered the Pilgrims to turn was barely five feet tall-maintained a fragile working over Squanto for punishment (death). Pilgrims were obligated relationship. But within decades, erupted into to do so, by the peace treaty they had signed: but at the same King Philip's War, a savage conflict that nearly wiped out time they realized that the survival of their Colony depended on English colonists and natives alike, and forever altered the face communication with the Indians. But Massasoit had called their of the fledgling colonies and the country that would grow from hand, and William Bradford was minutes away from turning them. Squanto over for execution, when a ship came onto the horizon. Philbrick evokes the drama of the voyage, the eerie Not knowing whether it was friend or foe, and even suspecting emptiness of coastal New England in the fall of 1620, and the that perhaps the Indians were in conspiracy with the French, large and small decisions that determined how everything Bradford refused to turn over Squanto until the identity of the would unfold for centuries to come with a vigor and ship was discovered. The ship turned out to be the Fortune, and incisiveness that will startle anyone who thought they knew the for Squanto it was very good fortune it arrived. story of the Pilgrims. But above all, he surprises us with the The new settlers, the shortage of food, and the oncoming human story beneath the myth. These are characters whose (Continued on page 5) names have become legend — William Bradford, , Myles Standish, Massasoit, and Squanto-but whom Philbrick brings to life as flawed, heroic, temperamental, and shrewd. We also meet figures who are lesser known, though we live their legacy every day: , the Plymouth- born frontiersman who used his knowledge of his Indian neighbors to help the English to a bloody victory; and Massasoit's son Philip, a tortured, enigmatic leader who reluctantly led his people into war that would bear his name. That crucial half-century, from 1620 to 1676, began in peril, ended in war, and contained the seeds of what would come to define America. Philbrick salutes the real courage of the Puritan true believers, willing to risk all for their religious convictions, as well as the generosity and sophistication of the Native Americans. But he also evokes the terrible fury of war. Time magazine called Philbrick's award-winning "spellbinding." In Mayflower, CONTINUED ON BACK PAGE Book Report

CONTINUED FROM 3 Nathaniel Philbrick casts his spell again, giving us, complete and completely fresh, the ultimate

3 | EVERGREEN LOG SUMMER 2006 SECRETARY’S REPORT — Submitted by Recording Secretary Donna Crosby

ANNUAL SPRING MEETING March 26, 2006

Held at the Tacoma Elks Club

Governor Don Wingerson called the meeting to order at 12:45pm and welcomed members and guests. There were 70 in attendance. Elder Frances Walters gave the invocation followed by the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of the of Ameri- ca led by Jim Siburg. Governor Don Wingerson introduced quests including past and present Board Members: Donna Crosby, Charles Garrett, Charles Gates, Ann Gibson, Luanne Green, Bett Houston, Vir- Historian Chuck Garrett with new members Russell Sco- ginia Kaiser, Charlotte Kennedy, Jim Siburg, Margaret Span- field, Richard Hutchins and David Bardue. gler, Cahterine Spedden, Gloria Swanson; former Board mem- bers: Suzanne Albright, Ruthe Fricke, Lorraine Dod, Myrtle Prohaska, Virginia Sollitt and Colony Officer, Steven Arnold, New members present were: David Bardue - William Brew- Treasurer. Guests in attendance at every table were introduced ster, Russell Scofield –John Alden, Richard Hutchins – William to the group. Brewster. The three were introduced to the membership, wel- Steve Arnold, Colony Treasurer of the Margaret Hyre Mid- comed and presented with Certificates of Membership in the Columbia Colony read the roll call with members standing to General Society and given New Member Packets. acknowledge their ancestors, Primary and authorized Supple- Assistant Historian Catherine Roberti’s report was presented mental. by the Governor. There are two new junior members: Ryan The minutes of the Compact Day Meeting held on 13 No- Scott Mill, grandson of Julie Steves, - Myles Standish, and Fin- vember 2005 were accepted without objection as printed in the Bryce Harrison, grandson of Ann Gibson - John Alden. The State Society has have a total of 180 Junior Members between 0-25 with a total of 115 Junior Members between the ages 0-18. Guest Speaker Dr. Ramsey was introduced by Gloria Swanson. Dr. Ramsey, dressed in 19th Century uniform played the role of Captain McNiel(l) from the years 1812-1876 and spoke in first person about his youth, his CONTINUED ON 5 Secretary’s Report

CONTINUED FROM 4 introduction to a seafaring life beginning with the Blockade by the USS Constitution and his signifi-

Steven Arnold reading the role call of Ancestors.

Evergreen LOG. Officer and Committee Reports were given with Governor Wingerson leading. He made note that there are currently 415 Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Washington and announced that Charlotte Kennedy is the Chair of the com- mittee to develop a website for our Society Treasurer Margaret Spangler reports that as of 31 December 2005 there is a balance of $16, 950 in the General funds. In the Life Membership funds, a balance of $23, 379. Treasurer Span- gler noted in an aside that no State or General Society dues are collected for any Society Member who is an actively serving member of the US military. Historian Chuck Garret reported that the State of Washing- ton has 415 active members. There are 6 new members, and 10 applications pending. There are 3 applications for new mem- bership that will be sent to in Plymouth MA nest week. Assistant General Washington, Gloria Swanson presenting a Certificate of Appreciation to Dr. Jerry Ramsey.

4 | EVERGREEN LOG SUMMER 2006 Plymouth. Within a few days, he was dead.

Massasoit

assasoit was the leader of the Wampanoag when the Pil- M grims arrived at Plymouth in 1620. Though he is not mentioned by name in any English accounts prior to 1621, he and his brother Quadequina are undoubtedly the "two Kings, attended with a guard of fiftie armed men" that met Captain Thomas Dermer at in May 1619, when he was re- turning Tisquantum ("Squanto") to his homeland. On March 22, 1620/1, Massasoit decided to pay his first visit to the Plymouth Plantation at the invitation of Tisquantum, who had first visited with the Pilgrims shortly before. In an almost identical scenario as that of Thomas Dermer a year earlier, he and his brother along with 60 armed men came and stood at the top of the hill overlooking the Colony. Edward Winslow was sent to him with some knives and a copper jewel chain as gifts-- and Massasoit was told that the Pilgrims only desired peace and trading. Massasoit was told that King James of England saluted Governor Don Wingerson presenting the Gladys Ellis Miller him with love and peace, and accepted him as a friend and ally. Historian’s History Award to Dr. Jerry Ramsey Massasoit liked what he heard; the English would make power- ful allies against his enemies in the region. The Pilgrims want- ed a peace treaty, and so he willingly undertook the negotia- tions. At the peace negotiation, he was met at the river by Captain Myles Standish and Elder William Brewster. They saluted one (Continued from page 4) another and he was taken to William Bradford's house for the cance in early Washington state history and Fort Nisqually. negotiations with Governor John Carver. Massasoit was given Dr Ramsey was presented with a Certificate of Appreciation some liquor, fresh meat, and some biscuits. Massasoit and the and the Gladys Ellis Miller Historian’s History Award for his Pilgrims agreed to a treaty which said that none of Massasoit's contributions to the preservation of US and Washington State men would harm the Pilgrims--and if they did, he would send history. them to the Pilgrims for punishment. And if anyone did unjust Governor Don Wingerson announced that the Summer Meet- war against Massasoit, the Pilgrims would come to his aid. ing will be held on 16 July 2006 at a place and time to be deter- They also agreed that when trading, the Indians would not bring mined. The fall Compact meeting will be help on 12 Nov 2006 their bows and arrows, and the Pilgrims would not bring their at a place and time to be determined. guns. Governor Don Wingerson expressed thanks to Margaret Spangler for Club arrangements, Donna Crosby for making Mayflower passenger Edward Winslow described Massasoit as reservations, to Chuck Garrett for the name tags. follows:

Elder Frances Walters noted the loss of members Mary Eliz- In his person he is a very lusty man, in his best years, an able abeth Padden, Ruth Strausz Curtis, Ernest Ford Hager, Eugene body, grave of countenance, and spare of speech. In his attire Morrow LeRoy, and Margaret Gustfason Fisher. little or nothing differing from the rest of his followers, only in Elder Walters then gave the Benediction and Governor a great chain of white bone beads about his neck, and on it be- Wingerson adjourned the meeting at 3:10pm. hind his neck hangs a little bag of tobacco, which he smokes and gave us to smoke; his face was painted with a sad red like murry, and oiled both head and face, that he looked greasily. All his followers like- (Continued from page 3) wise, were in their faces, winter distracted from other events. Then as spring came, new in part or in whole paint- settlers showed up to found another colony just to the north, at ed, some black, some Wessagussett: and they had all kinds of problems with the Indi- red, some yellow, and ans that required Squanto's interpreting skills. some white, some with Massasoit, though clearly disappointed and frustrated, didn't crosses, and other antic bother asking for Squanto's life again. But Squanto's life was works; some had skins not to last long anyway. On one trip to trade for some corn seed on them, and some na- for the subsequent growing season, he went with Governor ked, all strong, tall, all Bradford south on the ocean-side of Cape Cod, and they pulled men of appearance . . . into Manamoyick because of dangerous weather condi- [he] had in his bosom tions. There, in November 1622, Squanto's nose began to bleed. hanging in a string, a He told Governor Bradford it was a sign among the Indians of great long knife; he mar- death. He asked Bradford to pray for him so that he could go to veled much at our trum- the Englishman's God in Heaven when he died, and asked Brad- (Continued on page 6) ford to give various things as gifts to his English friends back at

5 | EVERGREEN LOG SUMMER 2006 Winslow, I shall never see you again." Winslow gave him a little bit of medicine, and scraped out the inside of his mouth which had swollen up preventing him from eating or drinking anything. Then he gave Massasoit some water and more medicine. In about half an hour, Massasoit had regained his eye sight and was getting better. Winslow made a chicken broth soup for Massasoit, and within a couple days Massasoit had his appetite In Memoriam back, and eventually recovered. Massasoit then revealed to the Pilgrims a conspiracy plot by the Massachusetts Indians to attack them and the Wessagussett Colony, and the Pilgrims led by Hearts Be Free and Spirits Blessed Myles Standish, with the help of some of Massasoit's men, de- feated the plot before it could materialize. By 1632, Massasoit is almost always referred to by the name Margaret Gustafson Fisher #726 of Ousemequin (sometimes spelled Woosamequen). Massasoit 10 November 2005 lived a long life, and remained a close friend and ally of the

Ernest Ford Hager #1192 Plymouth Colony until his death around 1656. His son 05 February 2006 Mooanam, later called (and by the English known by the nickname "Alexander") became leader of the Wampanoag, and was succeeded in turn by his son Metacom (known to the English by the nickname "Phillip").

Hobbamock

fter the Pilgrims made peace with Massasoit, another Wam- A panoag named Hobbamock, who could speak some English, came to live just outside of the walls of Plymouth, on neighbor- ing Watson Hill. William Bradford described Hobbamock as follows: (Continued from page 5) And there was another Indian called Hobbamock, a proper pet, and some of his men would it as well as they could. lusty man, and a man of account for his valor and parts amongst

In September 1623, Emmanuel Altham described Massasoit in the Indians, and continued very faithfully and constant to the English till he died. a letter: Emmanuel Althem in 1623 wrote: And now to speak somewhat of Massasoit's stature. He is as proper a man as ever was seen in this country, and very coura- Only without our pales dwells one Hobbamock, his wives and geous. He is very subtle for a savage, and he goes like the rest of his household (above ten persons), who is our friend and inter- his men, all naked but only a black wolf skin he wears upon his preter, and one whom we have found faithful and trusty. shoulder. And about the breadth of a span he wears beads about In a pamphlet entitled New England's Fruits, published in his middle. in 1643 (of unknown authorship), Hobbamock's affec- After meeting in the Pilgrim village, Massasoit then invited a tions toward Christianity are described: Pilgrim delegation to meet him at their place. Myles Standish As he increased in knowledge, so in affection, and also in his and Isaac Allerton volunteered for the adventure. Massasoit gave practice, reforming and conforming himself accordingly; and to them ground nuts and tobacco as gifts when they arrived, and though he was much tempted by incitement, scoffs and scorns, Standish and Allerton presented him with a kettle of peas. (Continued on page 7) A second trip to Pokanoket, where Massasoit lived, was made by the Pilgrims, so that they could learn more about their neigh- bors and to make some additions to their treaty. This time, Ed- ward Winslow and Stephen Hopkins were chosen to make the trip. Massasoit came out to see them when they arrived at the end of their several-days journey. They reaffirmed their peace with one another, and Massasoit agreed to tell his Indians to stop mak- ing random visits to Plymouth looking for food and entertain- ment; and he also agreed to send a messenger to contact the Indi- ans of which the Pilgrims took corn from upon their first arrival-- since they had thus far not been able to repay them. In March 1623, Massasoit became extremely ill, and when word came to Plymouth, Edward Winslow made a trip to Poka- noket to visit him, guided by Hobbamock. When they arrived in Nemasket, they were informed that Massasoit had already died. They proceeded to 's house, and there sent a messenger to Pokanoket who returned saying Massasoit was not dead yet, so they continued on. They found Massasoit in his house, full of many visitors. Massasoit was now blind, but could still understand--when they told him the English had come to visit him, he asked "Keen Winslow?" which means "Are you Winslow?" Then he said, "Matta neen wonckanet namen, Winslow!", which means "O

6 | EVERGREEN LOG SUMMER 2006 COLONY NEWS SOCIETY EVENTS

MARGARET HYRE MID-COLUMBIA COLONY Mark your calendar!

Secretary’s Report Tentative Schedule of Meetings: Submitted by Colony Recording Secretary Carla Rigby Time and Place to be Announced

Minutes of the May 21, 2006 Meeting 2006 Held at the Best Western Lake Inn at Lake, WA July 16, Sun, Summer Meeting Camp Berachah, Auburn

The Margaret Hyre Mid-Columbia Colony met at the Best November 12, Sun, Compact Day Western Lake Inn at Moses Lake on May 21, 2006, convening Location to be selected at 1:00 in the afternoon. 2007 Colony Governor Pamela Edwards, Richland, opened the meeting and welcomed those present. Mrs. Edwards read a let- March 25, Sun, Annual Meeting ter received from Donald Wingerson, Governor of the Society Location to be selected of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Washington, dated July 15 Sun, Summer Meeting March 6, 2006, which announced the unanimous approval by Location to be selected the Washington State Board of Assistants on February 25, 2006 November 11, Sun, Compact Day of the Application for Colony Status of the Margaret Hyre Mid Location to be selected Columbia Colony. The Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of 2008

America was recited after which the officers of the colony were March 30, Sun, Annual Meeting introduced. Each Mayflower descendant present was asked to Location to be selected give the name of their ancestor aboard the ship in 1620 and to July 13, Sun, Summer Meeting also introduce any guest or guests accompanying them. Location to be selected Following the invocation offered by Carla Rigby, Yakima, a buffet luncheon was served. Guests were seated at tables which had been decorated in a patriotic motif by Hostess, Jane Sutter. Julie Steves, Ellensburg, Colony Corresponding Secretary, read a thank you letter from Margaret Hyre. The minutes of the October 16, 2005 meeting were read by Colony Recording Secretary, Carla Rigby, and approved as Occidental Avenue, in the West Valley area of Yakima. read. See you there!! Steven Arnold, Yakima, Colony Treasurer, reported a bal- ance of $900.13 on May 20, 2006 which did not reflect the cost of the luncheon meeting on that day. Mr. Arnold also announced the results of the nominating committee's recommendation suggesting that all present officers retain their positions for another two year term. Denny Byram, Spokane, made a motion to this effect which was seconded by Joan Arnold of Yakima. The motion was passed by the voting members present. The officers are: Colony Governor, Pamela Edwards, Rich- land; Deputy Colony Governor, Wayne Gardner, East (Continued from page 6) Wenatchee; Colony Recording Secretary, Carla Rigby, Yakima; from the Indians, yet could he never be gotten from the English, Colony Corresponding Secretary, Julie Steves, Ellensburg; Col- nor from seeking after their God, but died amongst them, leaving ony Treasurer, Steven Arnold, Yakima; Colony Historian and some good hopes, in their hearts, that his soul went to rest. Publicity Chairman, Barry Moravek, Richland. Hobbamock assisted Myles Standish for the most part, where- A request was made by Mrs. Edwards regarding a location as Tisquantum assisted William Bradford. Both were used as for the autumn meeting. John and Thomas Hull of Yakima vol- translators, but Hobbamock generally gets much less credit for unteered to host the October 15, 2006 event at the Apple Tree his work, despite the fact that unlike Tisquantum, he never be- Restaurant located at the Apple Tree Golf Course, 8804 Occi- trays the Pilgrims. dental Avenue, in the West Valley area of Yakima. The lunch- Hobbamock also served the Plymouth Colony for a much eon meeting will begin at 1:30 p.m. followed by a program pre- longer time period than did Tisquantum, who died in November sented by the Edge of the Woods Players, a group of teenagers 1622. In April 1622 the Pilgrims decide to revisit the Massachu- from the Yakima area, directed by Kindra Ankney, who com- setts Indians. But Tisquantum said the Massachusetts had made a bine history with drama, dance and song. secret alliance with the Narragansett and are now enemies prepar- Jane Sutter introduced the speaker, Sergeant First Class ing to sack Plymouth once the Pilgrims left it unguarded. Charles Yost, presently serving his country in Iraq. His speech Tisquantum claimed that Massasoit was secretly plotting drew great praise from the audience. Following a period of against them with Corbitant and the Massachusetts. It was Hobo- questions and answers, the meeting was adjourned by Colony mok that stood up for Massasoit's honesty, and Hobbamock soon Governor Edwards. exposed Tisquantum, who was gaining personal power and pres- tige among the Indians by threatening to turn the Pilgrims against Next Colony Meeting October 15, 2006, to be held at the Apple them. Tree Restaurant located at the Apple Tree Golf Course, 8804 (Continued on page 8)

7 | EVERGREEN LOG SUMMER 2006 (Continued from page 7) Hobbamock's wife was sent on a spying mission to deter- mine whether or not Massasoit was still faithful, or whether he was plotting against the Pilgrims as Tisquantum claimed. She found Massasoit still faithful and friendly to the Pilgrims. After Tisquantum's death, Hobbamock became the primary DID YOU KNOW?!!! translator and guide for the Pilgrims, and did his job faithfully. He guided and translated for the Pilgrims on their trips to visit Massasoit, and to the Massachusetts and Nauset among others. That these two are your Mayflower Cousins. Hobbamock died sometime before 1643.

Editors note. Caleb Johnson is a member of the General Society of Mayflower Descendants and counts nine passengers as ancestors. Johnson researches Mayflower history and gene- Marilyn Monroe alogy, writes and self publishes books on Mayflower and Actress and Model Pilgrim History and has published articles in such magazines as The American Genealogist . Marilyn Monroe (a.k.a. Norma Jean Baker) - Charles Stanley Gifford - Frederick Gifford - Charles Gifford - Tompkins - Uriah Tompkins - Micah Tompkins - Sarah Coe - Sarah Pabodie - Elizabeth Alden - JOHN ALDEN

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Richard Gere - Homer Gere - Albert Gere - George Gere - Sa- rah Tewksbury - Lucina Fuller - Consider Fuller - Archippus Fuller - Sarah Wright - Sarah Soule - John Soule - GEORGE SOULE

Richard Gere - Homer Gere - Albert Gere - George Gere - Sa- rah Tewksbury - Lucina Fuller - Elkanah Elms - Sarah Ben- nett - Ruth Coombs - Francis Coombs - Sarah Priest -

Richard Gere - Homer Gere - Albert Gere - George Gere - Sa- rah Tewksbury - Lucina Fuller - Consider Fuller - Maria Ryder - Mary Sylvester - Hannah Bartlett - Joseph Bartlett - Mary Warren -

8 | EVERGREEN LOG SUMMER 2006 (Continued from page 3) MEMBERS AFLOAT — HELP! American story.

Attempts to contact these members have been unsuccessful. David Gates wrote in the May 01, 2006 issue of Newsweek the Some have moved with no forwarding address. following review under the heading of "Pilgrims' Bloody Progress." To bring records up-to-date please send information to the Corresponding Secretary Luanne Green, 3604 27th Street SE, When Vacationers see those signs for First Encounter Beach Puyallup, WA 98374-1715. Phone: 253.848.0289, or Email: on Cape Cod, they may imagine tall-hatted Pilgrims and [email protected] befeathered Indians passing around beads and peace pipes. In

Janice Binks, Montesano, WA fact, before reaching Plymouth, a scouting party from the Mary Lou Paulsen, Olympia, WA Mavflower stole some corn, and at least 30 Indians attacked them Mervin Reynolds, Riverside, WA with yard-long arrows. One Indian was probably wounded; the Jeanette Wescott, Republic, WA whites were unscathed. That time. This is about how American history went during the next three centuries, and haven't felt a lot of shame. New England babv boomers recall Heritage Societies need current information. that the Pilgrim hat on the Massachusetts 'I'urnpike signs used to Thank you! have an arrow sticking through it. All in fun. In telling this story, Nathaniel Philbrick's Mavflower substitutes solid research for the pious cartoons we used to get in grade-school classes and Thanksgiving pageants. "In the American popular Imagination," Pbilbrick writes, "the nation's history began with the Pilgrims and then leapfrogged more than 150 years to Lexington and Concord and the Revolution." But Philbrick, whose 2000 In the Heart of the Sea won a National Book Award, makes clear that the pilgrims weren't Jeffersons and Franklins with some quaint religious customs. They believed in signs and miracles and that God's hand guided their weapons against Satan's minions. The first Pilgrims tried to live peaceably among the tribes they were displacing-as long as the Indians were, "loyal." Their children and grandchildren edged into straight-up ethnic cleansing. No one who reads Philbrick will ever feel comfortable calling "a symbol of the imperishable ideals upon which the new nation had been founded." In the conflicts that culminated in (though by no means ended with) the bloody King SPLINTERS Philip's War of 1675-76, the English settlers killed and drove out God knows how many natives, and sent more than a thousand of FROM THE BOARD of ASSISTANTS them into slavery in the West Indies, and even as far as Africa. A good half of those slaves were sent from Plvmouth. At the May Board of Assistance Meeting Gloria Swanson was Philbrick does try to give the first Pilgrims their due: "We elected to replace Ron Woldeit as Deputy Governor of the Wash- must look with something more than cynicism at a people who ington Society. maintained more than half a centurv of peace with their Native Ron, earlier, had asked to be replaced as soon as convenient neighbors." For this assertion, his book gives us half a cheer's due to family and personal life considerations, some few involv- worth of justification. Which seems about right. ing his relocation to SW Washington State. Education Chair Mavis Ratcliff reported that information Study kits had been purchased from the General Society and that the logistics of distribution to designated school districts was being worked out. Note was made of new Life Members Barbara L Williams, David W Erickson, Kimberly Ericksen Miller and Marie B Wilson.

acknowledgment is made to the following publications or individuals for material used Newsweek Viking, the Caleb Johnson The Back Page Gary Boyd Roberts

EVERGREEN LOG | SUMMER 2006 CAMP BERACHAH DRIVING DIRECTIONS TO THE CAMP

From Seattle or Tacoma (Interstate 5)

•From I-5 take exit for Highway 18 East (Auburn / North Bend) •Drive East on Highway 18 six miles •Take Auburn-Black Diamond Road Exit •At end of off-ramp, turn right at the stop sign •Continue on Auburn-Black Diamond Road 6 miles •Turn right at stop sign merging onto SE Auburn-Black Diamond Road. •Go 1/2 mile, then turn left onto SE 328th Place •Follow to end into camp

From Bellevue / Redmond (Interstate 405 )

•Drive south on Interstate 405 (I-405) to Renton •From I-405 take exit for Highway 167 South (Kent/Auburn) •Continue south on Highway 167 through Kent & Auburn •Take exit onto Highway 18 East •Continue from Highway 18 East (see above directions)

From I-90

•Go West on Highway 18 (Exit #25 ) •Continue approximately for 15 miles to Kent Exit (SE 272nd / State Route 516) •Continue approximately for 15 miles to Kent Exit (SE 272nd / State Route 516) •Turn right onto Highway 516 (Kent Kangley), go 1 mile to 152nd SE •Turn left at 152nd SE and proceed south on 152nd SE (Kent Black Diamond Road) 4.6 miles •Turn left onto SE 328th Place and follow to end into camp.

From Black Diamond

•Turn E on Roberts Drive/SE Auburn Black Diamond Road •Continue on SE Auburn/Black Diamond Rd for about 5 miles •Turn Right on SE 328th Place

Camp Berachah

19830 SE 328th Place, Auburn, WA

253.939.0488

If lost, call the Camp Office at the above number. The Office will be open from 9am to 4pm. Park Here!! At end of the road go right across bridge and around the corner to your left, passing the green roofed, log Administration Bldg.

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Sunday, July 16, 2006

Camp Berachah, Auburn

Arrival & Social Time 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. — Lunch at 1:00 p.m. —

Picnic Lunch - barbecue chicken, hot dogs, corn on the cob, baked beans, salad and peach cobbler.

$14.00 per person.

Children under age 11 - $7.00.

Reservations must reach Treasurer Margaret Spangler by Saturday, July 08. Margaret W. Spangler 1837 North Skyline Drive Tacoma, WA 98402-1930 Phone: 253.752.2230 [email protected]

Things to do: Outdoor slides, swings, horseshoe pits (shoes provided), Frisbee and Putt-Putt Golf (clubs are available beside the 9- hole course in the club-box by the ship’s anchor; outdoor basketball court, a sand volleyball court, a pickle ball/tennis court, 2 tetherball circles, water fort, 2 baseball diamonds, a soccer field, and a quarter-mile walking track and walking trails; an indoor rec- reation center and gym features 2 gyms, one which has a full basketball court and the other with 2 full basketball courts, a volleyball court, ping-pong and foosball tables.

Directions: See facing page. EVERGREEN LOG NONPROFIT ORG U.S. POSTAGE Society of Mayflower Descendants PAID SEATTLE, WA in the State of Washington PERMIT NO. 1128

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Mark Your Calendar

Summer Meeting

July 16, 2006

Camp Berachah, Auburn

Visit with cousins! Have Fun!!