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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... 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 submitting to the Church and so a publieke Admonition was consented to by the vote of 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 casting out. You must have been present for that. Having played a central role in his capture, you would not ...
... Church Street, and a block or two farther from there—but even that short distance held clues for the discerning eye. It had not been so very long ago, after all, that the church elders had described immoral behavior as “disorderly ...
... church—a man hove into the darkness—the bell took up its tolling again. But you must have wondered, too, at what lay behind his words, which in the end were only patterned after the general model: the providence of God, the depravity of ...
... church, under the conventional square wooden tower. Katharine and Samuel spoke the words of promise and faith and forever, the Anglican minister blessed their union, and the fact was recorded in the parish records. Everything else then ...
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 | |