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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... ship offers the wheel to a new hand, he will sometimes give nothing in the way of instruction but the casual remark “Don't hit anything.” That has been my goal in writing this book. The waters that Richard More passed over were wide and ...
... life, and the other before him. Richard did not have to turn around to know what course the ships were taking in Salem Harbor that day, in casual disregard for the edict against traveling on the Sabbath. He knew the route as well.
... Ship-ton, Brocton, Moorehowse, Sifton Wall, Under Eywood, Ben-thyes, Moore and Mooreswood, with free warren and view of the frankpledge with appurtenances in Linley, and the advow- son of the church of Moore in the manor of Downton with ...
... ship, the Silver Falcon, to Virginia that same year and commissioned its captain in a letter dictated to “Sa: Mores.”7 Shipping marginal citizens off on perilous voyages was not an alien notion to Samuel's employer, either. The Privy ...
... ship out rather than on the best one. Control from a distance, allowing the engines of the law to do his work for him—this sort of behavior is certainly in keeping with the actions of a man who could move to London at the height of his ...
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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 | |