Mayflower Bastard: A Stranger Among the PilgrimsDavid 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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... Salem on insupportable charges of witchcraft. It would be hard to imagine a greater contrast: an idealistic community persisting through every adversity, and a vengeful community consuming its own. How did the one event lead to the ...
... Salem. A. COMMON FAME: that was the heart of it. You had heard of his exploits, and what you had not heard could always be gleaned from the gossips: legends of the First Comer in your midst. There INTRODUCTION: THE CASTING.
... Salem court (he still able to remember the days when the site was bare land) to answer for his crime of “gross unchastity with another man's wife.” His head bowed, his censure received. And then the rest of it, for once the court was ...
... 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 until eventually it breached the land and cleared a north channel, which ...
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Contents
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 | |