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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... already married and her other brothers dead of disease or fate, she was thrust to center stage of the household, with responsibilities she had never imagined as hers. And that she was in no position to take on. Neither you nor I will ...
... already written in the faces of Ellen and Jasper, would not yet have been apparent. For the moment, Samuel could only look upon the young Richard with a suspicion of what he would become. Before he knew how to speak, Richard More was ...
... already a Londoner, the trial was a burden of another variety: as he pointed out later, he had been compelled to pay the costs for both sides. Certainly, the ordeal was exhausting for both of them. But their tribulations were still not ...
... already in the air, if not the record books, while her appeal was in progress. Indeed, it seems that her appeal and the preparations for a transatlantic voyage could have been linked through the courts themselves. The Court of Delegates ...
... already there, and there he was still on July 8, when Katharine's appeal was finally over and done with.12 As if to make his lack of interest in the proceedings patently clear, Samuel had not particularly bothered to attend Katharine's ...
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 | |