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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... things that had formed him without his knowledge, long ago, in a world almost no one could recall, which he himself could not remember, much less convey to you, sitting there in your pew. You heard every word, his voice ringing flat ...
... things continued to go smoothly between the Mores even then. But by the time Richard More was baptized, on November 13, 1614, a cruel physical fact was becoming all too plain. As Samuel put it, there was a “likeness and resemblance of ...
... things are still too disturbing to be asserted. On our continuing tour, Don Harris took me next to the church in Shipton, where Richard More was baptized. I stood at the baptismal font, resting my hands on its edge, and tried to imagine ...
... things, to keep a fifty-pound annuity flowing from his fortune into the hands of Katharine's childless uncle, Matthew Smale, for as long as her male children lived.15 For all intents and purposes, young Jasper and Richard More were the ...
... thing about it. Why, after all, would his father be more concerned for the children's well-being in his own house than in his tenant's dwelling? Wouldn't he be responsible either way, because of his agreement to maintain (clothe, feed ...
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 | |