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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... wife was, in fact, a certain woman who ended up bewitched in Massachusetts, if only it could have been so. The same holds true for the less glamorous calls. The name Richard More appears often in colonial literature, and although in ...
... wife and was censured by them. On July 1, after the morning sermon, 5 Elders acquainted the Church with it, 2 of the brethren were sent to him to require him to come in the Afternoon which he did, speaking in some relenting way, and ...
... wife.” His head bowed, his censure received. And then the rest of it, for once the court was done, it was the church's turn to have at him. One Sabbath lecture that summer, the elders stood and spoke plainly and secured a vote for the ...
... wife in that tunnel, which could not have been true, because there could never have been such a tunnel, and thus the children could never have been. There are less economical ways to protest the violation of marriage vows. Admittedly ...
... wife—a verb meaning “to avoid”—he took a position as the personal secretary to Edward, Lord Zouch, a post he kept until his lordship's death in 1625.3 If Samuel needed a change from his situation at home, Lord Zouch provided a first ...
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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 | |