120.)] [Footnote 8: Bradford's History of the Plymouth Plantation, p.78.

"The 31st of December (1620) being Sabbath, they attended Divine service for the first time on shore, and named the place _Plymouth_, partly because this harbour was so called in Capt.

John Smith's map, published three or four years before, and partly in remembrance of very kind treatment which they had received from the inhabitants of the last port of their native country from which they sailed." (Moore's Lives of the Governors of Plymouth, pp.

37, 38.) The original Indian name of the place was _Accomack_; but at the time the Pilgrims settled there, an Indian informed them it was called _Patuxet_.Capt.John Smith's Description of New England was published in 1616.

He says, "I took the description as well by map as writing, and called it New England." He dedicated his work to Prince Charles (afterwards King Charles II.), begging him to change the "barbarous names." In the list of names changed by Prince Charles, _Accomack_ (or Patuxet) was altered to _Plymouth_.