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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... . Yet for all that, he was forever considered one of the First Comers, one who had been there at what, even during his lifetime, came to be called the Ancient Beginning. He thus became a kind of repository of the many PREFACE.
... beginning, as he could well recall, a spit of land had jutted out from Salem Neck, just above the turn where his own wharf lay. Soon enough, however, the trees were cleared from the neck, and the wind blew hard across Elvin's Point ...
... the lifeblood of the culture, but at the dawn of the seventeenth century (granted, I speak of the times before your Ancient Beginning), London was exploding with vitality. The textile monopolies of Elizabeth's reign had.
... beginning to get his education. WHEN KATHARINE claimed that her love for 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 ...
... Beginning from which everything else has flowered. Any aspersions cast on this story can serve only to weaken it, and so to weaken the values it represents: bravery, determination, idealism. Unfortunately, the events of 1620 do not ...
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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 | |