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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... course, for Claudia even superlatives fall short: if the heart is where reading and writing truly take place, then this book was, in some inarguable sense, originally written by her. All dishonor to me if I have erred in the translation ...
... course, in a book about a man who died more than three hundred years ago, the very notion of a common humanity is thrown into doubt. So much has changed in the interim: dress, customs, speech, governments— even the stars in the sky have ...
... the other before him. Richard did not have to turn around to know what course the ships were taking in Salem Harbor that day, in casual disregard for the edict against traveling on the Sabbath. He knew the route as well.
... course, Larden Hall—or rather, what is left of it. The original Larden Hall stood until 1968, when it was dismantled and delivered to a Texas outfit called Canterbury Interiors, which apparently turned around and sold it off piecemeal ...
... course, where there are costumes, actors soon must follow, and so they did. It was not uncommon for country squires—and Samuel More was exactly that—to be away from their manors, hobnobbing in London, for two years at a stretch. By 1633 ...
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 | |