Chapter 50

Not for much longer, though. The churchman who chronicled the whole mess, writing years later once the colony became viable, described the epidemic: “As people became ill it was thought prudent to remove them, so as not to infect others with their bad air. And so Resolved King did give of part of his land, near a mighty oak, for use as a place of hospice for the sick and the dying. The sick did repair there in numbers that defied imagination, and they were buried where they lay until none had strength to bury them.”