in
Plymouth, Massachusetts It was written primarily by
Edward Winslow, although
William Bradford appears to have written most of the first section. The book describes their relations with the surrounding
Native Americans, up to what is commonly called the first
Thanksgiving and the arrival of the ship
Fortune in November 1621. ''Mourt's Relation
was first published and sold by John Bellamy in London in 1622. The tract has sometimes been erroneously cited as "by George Morton, sometimes called George Mourt", which led to its title, Mourt's Relation''. Morton was a
Puritan Separatist who had moved to
Leiden, Holland. He stayed behind when the first settlers left for
Plymouth, Massachusetts, but he continued to orchestrate business affairs in Europe and London for their cause—presumably arranging for the publication of and perhaps helping write Mourt's Relation. In 1623, Morton himself emigrated to the Plymouth Colony with his wife Juliana, the sister of Governor William Bradford's wife Alice. George Morton would not survive long in the New World, dying the following year in 1624. George Morton's son
Nathaniel Morton became the clerk of Plymouth Colony, a close adviser to his uncle Governor
William Bradford who raised him after the death of his father, and the author of the influential early history of the Plymouth Colony "New England's Memorial." ==Legacy==