In the spring of 1621, Plymouth Colony sent Stephen HOPKINS to make the first visit to Wampanoag sachem Massasoit to present a red horseman\'s coat as a gift and sign of friendship.
These are the extraordinary adventures of an ordinary man..
Yet Stephen was just an ordinary man, with a wife, three sons, seven daughters, a small house, some farmland for his corn, and cows named Motley, Sympkins, Curled, and Red.
He signed the Mayflower Compact, lodged the famous Squanto in his house, participated in the legendary Thanksgiving, and helped guide and govern the early colonists.
He was once even sentenced to death! He got himself and his family onto the Pilgrims\' Mayflower, and helped found Plymouth Colony.
By the time he turned forty, he had already survived a hurricane, been shipwrecked in the Bermuda Triangle, been written into a Shakespearean play, witnessed the famine and abandonment of Jamestown Colony, and participated in the marriage of Pocahontas.
For most ordinary Englishmen, venturing off into the depths of unexplored America would have been a once in a lifetime adventure: but not for Stephen.
In the spring of 1621, Plymouth Colony sent Stephen HOPKINS to make the first visit to Wampanoag sachem Massasoit to present a red horseman\'s coat as a gift and sign of friendship
