Patuxet was the very place where on the 21st of December, 1620, eighteen months later, the Pilgrims from Leyden landed from the Mayflower, and which Captain John Smith six years before had called " Plymouth," a name which will ever be famous in New England history. Strange are the historic facts, that slaves were its first export, and those slaves Indians, that its first foreign visitors, after its discovery by Smith, were Frenchmen, the two redeemed by Dermer, who was the first to point out its advantages for a town, and that the coming there of the Pilgrims afterward was the merest accident of an accident, they having sailed for New Netherland.

Dermer reached Monhegan on his return, on the 23d of June, 1619, and after despatching his ship back to England, prepared to sail on a voyage to Virginia in his pinnace. " I put," he says, " most of my provisions aboard the Sampson of Captain Ward, ready bound for Virginia from whence he came, taking no more into the pinnace than I thought might serve our turns, determining with God's help to search the coast along, and at Virginia to supply ourselves for a second discovery if the first failed." He then sailed along the coast to Virginia arriving there on the 8th of September, 1619. Squanto terribly disappointed at finding all his 2:)eople dead, remained with Dermer, till he touched on this second pinnace voyage, at Sawah-quatooke (an Indian town in the present township of Brewster on Cape Cod) " where," in Dermer's words, " he desired to stay with some of our savage friends." Subsequently Squanto, from the knowledge of English he had picked up> became of great assistance to the Pilgrims as an interpreter and his later career is well known.