called colony short lived english trading colony new_england located present day massachusetts settled august colonists ill prepared colonial life colony settled adequate provisions dissolved late march relations local native americans surviving colonists joined plymouth colony returned england second settlement massachusetts years referred colony ill conceived ill executed ill fated best remembered battle massacre plymouth troops led indian force led battle relations plymouth colonists natives fictionalized centuries later poem courtship miles september second colony led governor general created abandoned site colony unsuccessful governor returned england following year despite settlers remained village absorbed massachusetts bay colony origins colony coordinated london merchant associated years earlier funded short lived modern maine period pilgrims netherlands helped arrange colonists passage help merchant writing 1870s called sixteenth century mold brain schemes sudden gain settlement new continent later years plymouth governor called bitter enemy unto plymouth occasions primary purpose new colony profit religious reasons plymouth settlers dictated colony assembled believed families run plantation selected able bodied men men experienced colonial life total advanced scouts colonists final complement included surgeon lawyer party outfitted supplies winter colony advance team settlers arrived plymouth colony new world board english fishing vessel sailing coast modern day maine arriving coast maine traveled final miles members crew colonists stayed briefly plymouth scouting coast find site colony finding negotiated land returned plymouth sending small crew awaited remainder colonists main body colonists set london april board ships charity swan brother law initial leader group group arrived plymouth late june moved settlement following month end september colony established swan moored charity returned england relationship groups men assisted plymouth harvest accused stealing elder colony shortly relocating angry indians complained plymouth colonists stealing corn response plymouth send new colony disorder colony subsequently reported plymouth governor consuming food quickly apparent run end winter addition plymouth low supplies spending additional time growing season building fortifications growing crops prevent hunger famine colonies plymouth colonists organized joint trading mission natives goods brought colonists trading mission somewhat successful colonies split proceeds november died governor colony january colonists continued trade natives food severe disadvantage drove price corn forced trade clothes needed supplies colonists entered form building performing natives exchange food colonists died incident caught stealing natives colonists hanged view good faith sources disagree man hanged culprit colonists hanged older possibly dying man instead legend colonists hanged innocent man later popularized satirical depiction event poem february petitioned plymouth joint attack natives rejected plymouth governor killings winter tensions continued build settlers plymouth natives response instance native caught stealing plymouth near end winter natives near moved swamp near colony colonists felt siege seeing signs indications hostility fled plymouth bring word imminent attack adding desperation perception imminent hostility pursued natives flight arriving plymouth march met governor town council unclear report point plymouth decided mount attack plymouth recently warned life saved english medicine conspiracy tribes plymouth threatening tribes told led included tribes far away martha case plymouth colony sent small force arrived march called colonists defense following day natives including local chief historical sources different accounts killings manner natives including local chief room men source 1880s suggests natives arranged allow attack sources state invited natives situation peaceful including local chief room village gave order strike quickly killing knife natives village attacked escaped raise alarm killed brief battle native head cut displayed plymouth warning included fictionalized depiction killings epic poem version indians depicted begging weapons use tribes responds offering target boasts indians attacks aftermath following brief conflict offered leave soldiers defend colony offer rejected instead colonists divided including returned england swan remained joined plymouth colony spring village colony dissolved arrived maine months later seeking join colony discover failed settlers apparently gone north maine living home built explorer granted land found english colony settlement failed fate men uncertain fighting plymouth trade indians devastated years local tribes previously favorable plymouth began forge bonds tribes defense english hostility eventually war later king philip war historians differ conflict avoided colony saved historians saw strike necessary saving lives hundreds sad misunderstanding speaking shortly anniversary colony historian summarized experience ill conceived ill executed ill fated second colony approximately time new colony new_england patent settlement covering square miles km2 north east given english captain son sir settlement intended spiritual civil capital council new_england colonies commissioned governor general authority plymouth presumably future colonies government consist leadership council plymouth governor member unlike brought working men brought families intending permanent settlement unlike brought church_of_england form oversee spiritual health region arrived massachusetts september months colony collapsed instead founding colony location described patent instead chose abandoned settlement site town expedition began following weeks visited plymouth ordered arrest arrived colony swan official act governor general charged neglect colony selling weapons supposed defense colony denied charge confessed second consideration released word eventually settled politician virginia maryland new colony spring financial difficulties settlers returned england remained colonists plymouth virginia remaining settlers supported plymouth massachusetts bay governor visited settlement time location original settlement lost history development location original fort rediscovered
Wessagusset Colony