Mayflower Bastard: A Stranger Among the PilgrimsMacmillan, 1. 4. 2007 - Počet stran: 272 David Lindsay, researching old records to learn details of the life of his ancestor, Richard More, soon found himself in the position of the Sorcerer's Apprentice-wherever he looked for one item, ten more appeared. What he found illuminated not only More's own life but painted a clear and satisfying picture of the way the First Comers, Saints and Strangers alike, set off for the new land, suffered the voyage on the Mayflower, and put down their roots to thrive on our continent's northeastern shore. From the story, Richard emerges as a man of questionable morals, much enterprise, and a good deal of old-fashioned pluck, a combination that could get him into trouble-and often did. He lived to father several children, to see, near the end of his life, a friend executed as a witch in Salem, and to be read out of the church for unseemly behavior. Mayflower Bastard lets readers see history in a new light by turning an important episode into a personal experience. |
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... Jacob Blakeway were already in love by that time. There are documents that hint at the truth—the lease for the farmland that the Blakeways rented from the Mores, with Samuel More's signature firmly affixed to the back; the confusion ...
... Jacob Blakeway, “a fellow of meane parentage & condicon.” Men will make their bid at immortality in the hearts of women, and Jacob Blakeway, in choosing Katharine for a lover, was one of the few who succeeded for only that reason. The ...
... Jacob's eyes were blue. An uneasy sequence is thus suggested. Like all children, Richard More did not look like anyone in particular when he was an infant. The damning evidence—say, a small nose that contrasted with the Pinocchio-like ...
... Jacob were actually the ones who were married! They had, she insisted, a “precontract.” A precontract was actually a fairly strong defense. In England at the time, no ceremony was required for a marriage to be valid. A man and a woman ...
... Jacob was “all one before god,” she was, in effect, saying that their precontract was valid with or without witnesses. Intentionally or not, this was a departure from standing matrimonial law, not least because her insistence on the ...
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THE PROMISED LAND | |
A MOTHERS WISH | |
TO | |
THE DOUBLE LIFE OF RICHARD MORE | |
THE BELL | |
THE QUAKER CRISIS | |
BATTLES LARGE AND SMALL | |
UNDER WATCHFUL EYES | |
HYPOCRISY UNMASKD | |
HYSTERIA | |
STONE REMAINS | |