Regularly the Sabbath day was observed by at least the most part of our pilgrims.

Upon all our party there seemed to sit an air of content and certitude.

Of all our wagons, I presume one was of greatest value.

It was filled with earth to the brim, and in it were fruit trees planted, and shrubs; and its owner carried seeds of garden plants.

Without doubt, it was our mission and our intent to take with us such civilization as we had left behind.
So we marched, mingled, and, as some might have said, motley in our personnel--sons of some of the best families in the South, men from the Carolinas and Virginia, Georgia and Louisiana, men from Pennsylvania and Ohio; Roundhead and Cavalier, Easterner and Westerner, Germans, Yankees, Scotch-Irish--all Americans.