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I have a small mental hangup about this line of thinking on the Captain in as much as he was an "agent" or "governor" for the English investors. IN his capacity he was not responsible for finding settlers. I doubt seriously he would have been able to accomplish this fete in a year's span in any case. It took a year or more for a family to prepare for this journey. An excellent book for information on preparation to go to the Colonies, leaving a life behind, selling out and gathering necessities of a bare existance in their new home, can be found in a book titled "Mistress Bradstreet". Back to the Captain: He would have been more involved with the business of bringing together investors for his discoveries and interests in New Hampshire and would have left the gathering of settlers to those who owned the patent(s). A lot of those settlers were "indentured" for seven years to their mentors in payment for thier voyage and a plot of land. Wiggin was not in a position to offer land in 1632-33. His capacity was one of a leader/governor.
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