John Billington, Jr. arrived with his family in Plymouth in 1620. He put his name in the history books a year later for wandering off from the colony and going missing for five days. Billington, Jr. was delivered by the Manomet sachem, Canacum, to the Nauset tribe, whose corn the pilgrims had stolen upon their arrival at the Cape. When the colonists sent a heavily-armed posse of 10 men to Nauset to retrieve him, the Natives arrived with more than 100 men. To the colonists' surprise, the boy was returned peacefully and conflict was avoided, but the incident certainly did not help the Billington family's already shaky standing in the community.
