Indeed. The Plymouth settlers wanted to get away from a culture they rejected; many of the Jamestown settlers were get-rich-quick adventurers. I can definitely see the latter resorting to all sorts of things the former wouldn't do when times got tough.
I never could figure out the starvation times of the early settlers.
Hunting is hard (especially with matchlocks), but clams are easily dug, and the waters were teeming with fish back then.
Um no