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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... father's features: Richard More the elder had a splash of the raffish about his eyes, and a thin nose that, underscored as it was by a spare mustache, suggested wit. Samuel's face, on the other hand, was pudgy, his best expression ...
... father renewed the lease on a parcel of sloped land owned by Katharine More's father, Jasper. Jacob later apparently worked it in some capacity, although he lived in nearby Brockton. Later on, the lease ended up among Samuel's effects ...
... father's eyes clearly are in his portrait. We might infer, then, that Jacob's eyes were blue. An uneasy sequence is thus suggested. Like all children, Richard More did not look like anyone in particular when he was an infant. The ...
... father, Richard More of Linley, and they formally exchanged the family holdings, father to son. But perhaps you would not say “formally.” Perhaps you would say deviously. The handoff, after all, was achieved through the pretense that ...
... father. Yet Katharine's admission to Samuel could not have come much later than that moment, because the More family shifted abruptly into more troubled waters.13 A headstrong woman like Katharine was not apt to have confessed of her ...
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 | |