MAETHA'S VINEYARD. 413 



Nathaniel Morton, in his "Memorial," published in 1669, 

 says, "The Isle of Capawack now called 'Martin's' Vine- 

 yard." * 



William Hubbard's "History of New England" in 1680 

 calls it " Martin's " Vineyard. 



It would seem as if all these citations might throw some 

 doubt as to what should be the real name of this island when 

 not one instance is found of its being called "Martha's" 

 Vineyard. Gosnold named the island north of the Vineyard, 

 where his permanent settlement was to be located, Eliza- 

 beth, for his queen. Virginia had already been named for 

 her. Later, Cape Ann and Annapolis were called for Queen 

 Anne, and Maryland for the consort of Charles I. ; but there 

 was no royal Martha, no distinguished woman of that name, 

 save her of St. John's gospel, who had died some time 

 previous, having been canonized July 13, A. D. 303, and 

 there is no suggestion of any other woman for whom he 

 should have called it. 



In the voyage down the coast Gosnold gave to unimportant 

 localities convenient names. To "Cape Cod "he gave the 

 name it has ever since borne. "Point Care " he called a 

 dangerous shoal on which he nearly ran. Another headland 

 he called " Point Gilbert," for Bartholomew Gilbert, an ex- 

 plorer and captain of the time, and second officer on this 

 voyage. A reef uncomfortably near their course he named 

 " Tucker's Terror," from the alarm it gave one of his voy- 

 agers, and " Gosnold's Hope " was Buzzard's Bay ; and it is 

 probable that he might have called the small island at which 

 he touched for some friend or promoter of his voyage, most 

 likely for Capt. John Martin, with whom not long after, he 

 sailed to Virginia, both being members of the governing 

 council of the " London Company," and undoubtedly fi'iends 

 as they were co-workers in this undertaking. On the one 

 hand we have a ' ' relation " made by one accompanying the 

 discoverer, who himself, with all the others, are silent on 



* A Inter edition of this interesting work, by the learned and venerable Judge 

 Davis, has a copy of the map taken from " Hubbard's Indian Wars," described as " A 

 Map of Newe England, being the first that ever was here cut, and drawn by the best 

 pattern that could be had, which, being in some places defective, it made the other 

 less exact, yet doth it sufficiently show the situationof the country, and conveniently 

 well the distance of places." 



