[1] He sailed the ship Discovery three hundred miles into Hudson Strait[2] but turned back on July 26, as the year was far spent and many men were ill. Weymouth reached Dartmouth on September 5, 1602.

A report of the voyage, written by James Rosier (hired by Arundell to make detailed observations), was published soon after the men returned from their expedition.

The pamphlet described the physical resources available to settlers on the islands and coast of Maine (harbors, rivers, soil, trees, wild fruit and vegetables, and so forth).

"[5] Rosier also recounts the crew's encounters with the indigenous peoples living in the Maine coastal region around Penobscot Bay, likely members of Eastern Abenaki-speaking nations,[a] which began eleven days after the Archangel first moored among the Georges Islands, on May 30, 1605.

The report tells how the remaining crew had a chance encounter that afternoon with a hunting party, developed a sign language with them, and over several days encouraged their trust with gifts and then trade.

[b] On his return, Weymouth joined the gathering, offering the Abenaki people bread and peas, with which they were unfamiliar, and showing them a sword magnetized with a lodestone.

"[e] These things considered, we began to joyne them in the ranke of other Salvages, who have beene by travellers in most discoveries found very trecherous [sic]; never attempting mischiefe, until by some remisnesse, fit opportunity affordeth them certain ability to execute the same.

Anaffon told Champlain of a group of Englishmen who had been fishing there not long before and "under cover of friendship" had killed five inhabitants of the area.

Their names were recorded as Amoret, Tahanedo, sagamore Manedo, Sketwarroes, and Sassacomoit, a servant; Weymouth presented the latter three to Sir Ferdinando Gorges, governor of Plymouth Fort, piquing his interest in exploration.

Captain George Weymouth, having failed at finding a Northwest Passage, happened into a River on the Coast of America, called Pemmaquid, from whence he brought five of the Natives, three of whose names were Manida, Sellwarroes, and Tasquantum, whom I seized upon, they were all of one Nation, but of severall parts, and severall Families; This accident must be acknowledged the meanes under God of putting on foote, and giving life to all our Plantations ....[25]Circumstantial evidence makes nearly impossible the claim that Squanto was among the three taken by Gorges,[g] and no modern historian entertains this as fact.