Captain Wollaston creates a small settlement in New England, seemingly to use as a way-station and storage facility for Indentured Servants. Thomas Morton, one of his minor investors, had another plan in mind. Morton's neighbors in the Plymouth Colony will come to know him as, "The Lord of Misrule." --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/osoa/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/osoa/support ..read more

Plymouth castaways, fishermen and farmers, find refuge to the North of the Plymouth Colony, creating small autonomous settlements along the coast. Unknowingly, their assistance to the Dorchester Company would redraw the maps for the Natives and the Old Planters as they laid the foundation for a "City upon a Hill." --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/osoa/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/osoa/support ..read more

Plymouth and the scattered fishing camps to the north owe their tenuous legal existence in the English world to The Council for New England. Sir Ferdinando Gorges, President of the Council, has a grand vision for New England: of feudal estates, worked by sturdy pheasants, worshiping in proper Anglican fashion under a single governor. His Council for New England reserved the right to govern, as granted to them by King James, having only given the Plymouth settlers the right to settle and purchase land from the Natives. Now Gorges intended to install a proper government and the man for the job w ..read more

Thomas Weston, the man who financed the Separatists and legitimized their settlement at Plymouth, plans a colony of his own. Without the distractions of family units and religious fanaticism, Weston hopes his colony will return greater profits than the fledging Pilgrims were providing. Success will depend on forging a trade relationship with the Native Massachusetts Tribe, and is counting on the riff-raff he hires off the streets of London to settle his colony. What could go wrong? In the meantime, Weston himself runs afoul with the law, has dealings with Turkish pirates, assumes a new identit ..read more

Ousamequin, Paramount Chief of the Wampanoag, leads his people through a period of near desolation, only to live to see the enemy Narragansett threaten to absorb the remainder of his once great confederacy. In 1621 he decides to make allies with strange bedfellows in a gambit to take back control of his world.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/osoa/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/osoa/support ..read more

The Popham Colony is abandoned and now the Virginia Company of Plymouth is without a settlement to defend their claims. During this shadowy period of time the English still maintain a presence in Northern Virginia, as they call it, soon to be reimagined as New England by an unsuspecting character you may know from Jamestown fame. Unknowingly, the groundwork is laid by Sir Ferdinando Gorges for a a strange group of Separatists who recently returned from the Netherlands.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/osoa/message Support this podcast: https://podcaste ..read more

18 years before the Mayflower carried its' famous passengers, Bartholomew Gosnold plans to start a small fishing colony on a small island off the coast of Southern New England. Little known to history, Gosnold's colony surprisingly had a lasting impact on the place names of New England and the foundation of a later colony you may have heard of...  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/osoa/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/osoa/support ..read more

Who were the Wampanoag in the period immediately preceding contact with Europeans? How did they view themselves and the world around them? In this episode Eric reconstructs the Wampanoag in the time before the Thanksgiving story, Tisquantum, or Plymouth.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/osoa/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/osoa/support ..read more

This season will cover the  many forgotten English colonies that became the Middle and New England Colonies we all know and love so well. Rather than serve as missteps and side stories, these ventures shaped the borders, nature and circumstances of the Colonies that would one day declare their independence, beginning yet another state of America. A few topics covered this season: The Wampanoag, The United Colonies of New England, Lygonia, West New Jersey and many more. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/osoa/message Support this podcast: https://podcaster ..read more

In this episode Eric rambles on about the season, people who reached out and the sources used to put together season two. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/osoa/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/osoa/support ..read more