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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... hand, are more easily tracked. (Indeed, perhaps that is why matrimony exists.) On her wedding day, Katharine was already twenty-three years old—roughly the same age that her grandmother Jane Pemberton had been two decades earlier when ...
... hands on its edge, and tried to imagine a baby's skin against its coarse texture. Before leaving, I entered my name ... hand on his wife, even though his law—unlike mine, or yours for that matter—would have permitted it. He did not even ...
... hand. Sometime about February 1616, Samuel returned from London to Shropshire, riding, as was usual for a gentleman, in a four-wheeled carriage with open sides, attended by a coachman and two footmen. To get to Shropshire, one traveled ...
... hand. The midwife, her hands anointed with almond oil or the “oyle of white Lyllies,” leaned close to Katharine's ear and whispered “sweet woordes.”10 Then, drawing from a prayer book of the day, The Monument of Matrones, by Thomas ...
... hands of Katharine's childless uncle, Matthew Smale, for as long as her male children lived.15 For all intents and purposes, young Jasper and Richard More were the only living shoots of the Larden family line, and as long as that ...
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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 | |