Arthur Mullen's blog
"The courage, industry and religious zeal of Plymouth Rock's visitors in 1620 is never questioned. But few are aware that this first Pilgrim band, who arrived here ill-equipped to survive America's formidable wilderness, was saved from starvation by a little bit of larceny... A 10-bushel cache of seed corn, hidden... under hillocks of sand of what is now called Corn Hill near Truro, was discovered by scouting parties, and raided, soon after landing."
"By morning the explorers decided the land was too hilly and the harbor too shallow for a settlement, and they went looking for the place where they had cached the rest of the corn. This was on a hill near the shore overlooking Cold Harbour. They named it 'Corn Hill,' still its name. They had to dig with cutlasses and short swords a foot in the frozen ground; and they thanked God that they had made the first exploratory trip, for the ground was now hidden by snow and hard-frozen."