Saints and Strangers tells the tale of Plimoth in a way you didn't learn in school. The Mayflower brought a divers collection of people. Broadly divided they were Puritans and pirates of one sort or another.
Miles Standish and his squad were hirelings, pure and simple.
There was also an investor class. Stephen Hopkins comes to mind. He brought his wife, kids, and two indentured servants. Hopkins avoided the noose for actual piracy by the skin of his teeth.
Setting the stage: The Company had a Royal Charter to Virginia.
Neither the Saints nor the Strangers wanted to go to Virginia.
The Saints were Puritans and the Virginia Colony was Church of England. The Civil War was not long in the past.
The Strangers wanted new, untaxed, opportunities.
You probably were taught the Mayflower Compact in elementary school and probably don't know why it was written.
Mutiny on the Mayflower. The top Saints and the top Strangers wanted to land in Massachusetts in a blizzard rather than continuing South to Virginia.
Above, in passing, I mentioned my granther. An Indentured Servant on his way to the paradise of Virginia. His point was that if he wasn't taken to Virginia his contract was void and he would land a free man.
Miles and his men were called. The Mayflower Compact was written. It's mostly flowery phrases but the devil is in the details, 'All Contracts are still valid' Not everyone signed it. Doten was illiterate and made his mark at gunpoint.
My understanding of Doten is that he was smart, tough, and willing to kill.
Later he was involved in the first duel in English North America. Above I noted that Hopkins had two Indentured Servants. It was with his fellow servant. The first time I heard the tale I suspected it was about slacking.
It turns out that it was about a Hopkins daughter who refused to marry either of them.