His biography forces the timeline backward to 1614 and beyond.

Once that happens, the founding story stops looking like an encounter between two worlds meeting for the first time.

It looks more like one episode in an escalating Atlantic process.

Ships had been coming.

People had been taken.

Diseases had arrived.

Maps had been drawn.

Commercial interests had been established.

The colony was the next stage, not the first.

Why Patuxet Was Never Truly “Empty”