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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... for all that, he was forever considered one of the First Comers, one who had been there at what, even during his lifetime, came to be called the Ancient Beginning. He thus became a kind of repository of the many PREFACE.
... called a “television”—a cheap catharsis that prevents the airing of any tragedy worthy of the name. We still demand moral solvency, and still the demand derails us. What, then, of the bell that rang above your head? Could you hear in ...
... called Canterbury Interiors, which apparently turned around and sold it off piecemeal. The new Larden Hall is a specimen of serviceable brickwork dropped into a spectacular pastoral, inhabited by a Mrs. Jones. When I was introduced as ...
... called them—began in 1616. It can be no coincidence that this was the same year that he turned twenty-one and thus, as the eldest son, gained control over the combined estates of Linley and Larden. And over the children of his wife as ...
... called Palatinate Patents. Interestingly enough, this tract corresponded closely to the area where the Mayflower passengers settled: an indistinct stretch between Boston Harbor and Rhode Island. Gooch, one may assume, was already ...
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 | |