Leyden Street, Plymouth
- Address: Leyden St
- Vicinity: Market St to Water St
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
| 1620/12/00 | Francis Cooke | Home Locale | The Pilgrims build houses (lost) along the street from the shore up to the base of Burial Hill where a fort (lost) is to be erected at what is now the cemetery and First Church of Plymouth. | |||
| 1621/09/00 | Gov William Bradford | Host | All the summer there was no want and now began to come in store of fowl, as winter approached, of which this place did abound when they came first. And besides waterfowl there was great store of wild turkeys, of which they took many, besides venison, etc. | Turkey | First Thanksgivings | |
| 1621/09/00 | Francis Cooke | Pilgrim | They began now to gather in the small harvest they had, and to fit up their houses and dwellings against winter, being all well recovered in health and strength and had all things in good plenty. - Log of the Mayflower | First Thanksgivings | ||
| 1621/09/29 | Gov Edward Winslow | Host | 53 Pilgrims celebrate their first harvest in the New World by hosting a three day feast with 90 Native Americans. Occurring sometime between 21 September and 11 November 1621, probably around Michaelmas. | First Thanksgivings | ||
| 1622/00/00 | Gov William Bradford | Hungry Pilgrim | William Bradford writes that conditions are so difficult that the only dish they can "presente their friends with was a lobster". Six foot long lobsters can be found along the shore. | American lobster | ||
| 1623/00/00 | Gov William Bradford | Governor | so assigned to every family a parcel of land. This had very good success, for it made all hands very industrious, so as much more corn was planted. The women now went willingly into the field, and took their little ones with them to set corn. - Bradford | |||
| 1627/05/22 | Francis Cooke | Life | The Company distributes the cattle, cows and goats, equally to all the persons. Francis Cooke and his wife Hester Cooke are the first to recieve one lot: 4 black heyfers and two shee goats. |
| Particulars for Leyden Street, Plymouth: | |
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| Area of Significance | Architecture |
| Criteria | Architecture-Engineering |
| Criteria | Exemplar |
| Sight Category | Historic District |
| Owner | Private |
| Historic Use | Single dwelling |
| Area of Significance | Social History |
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