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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... 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 other? Were these ...
... charges against him. The land, however, was another story. The home fires did not burn bright in July 1688. By the time you found him out, he had sold or bequeathed every plot of property he owned. Even the two-story house in which he ...
... charge to hold the same bountiful mind, To be good to his neighbors and to his tenants kind, But in the ensuing ditty you shall hear how he was inclined; Like a new Courtier of the King's ... —”The Old Courtier of the Queen's ...
... charged accusations under cover of cosmological truth as well. We can almost hear the grimness creeping into Katharine's voice as she recited: Shall I be the grave of my child: Shall I give death the fruit of my bodie, for the sins of ...
... charges against Jacob in the Court of the High Commission. Did your own church elders ever speak of that court, I wonder? Did they tell how Archbishop Laud had used it as an instrument against the Puritans, how it resembled, and was ...
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 | |