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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... June, Katharine went to the tenant's dwelling into which her children—Richard, Jasper, Ellen, and Mary—had been sequestered and, in a hail of murderous oaths, “did teare the cloathes from their backes.” Did tear the clothes from their ...
... June 1616, Both the aforementioned James [Jacob] Blakeway and the previously mentioned Catherine More were convicted, against who(m) a title [the main heading in the law code] or a criminal charge of living an incontinent life or ...
... June 1619, husband and wife were again involved in litigation. Katharine, fighting on her own behalf for the first time, prolonged the proceedings with what Samuel deemed “friuolous allegacons” but may well have been attempts at a ...
... June 13, 1619 (by which time Jacob Blakeway had lost his case against Zouch's secretary and disappeared to points unknown), Zouch and his fellow Privy Councillors were looking to settle “a Plantation upon the River of the Amazones in ...
... June 11, that Londoners of any religious persuasion were invited to sail on the Mayflower. On June 19 either Samuel was preparing to accompany the ailing Lord Zouch to Bath or he was already there, and there he was still on July 8, when ...
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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 | |