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The Mayflower : the families, the voyage, and the founding of America /

Fraser, Rebecca,

The Mayflower : the families, the voyage, and the founding of America / Rebecca Fraser. - xiii, 358 pages,16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-339) and index.

Prologue: 1676 -- Droitwich -- Leiden -- Leaving Holland -- The voyage -- Land -- Massasoit -- The building of "our town" -- Good farms -- Massachusetts begins -- The Pequot War -- The Pan-Indian Conspiracy -- Leaving for London, 1646 -- Republican England -- Hercules -- Generational change -- The coming of war -- King Philip's War -- Penelope alone: the widow's bed "not priced" -- Penelope's final actions.

9781250108562 (hardcover)

2017026873


Winslow, Edward, 1595-1655.
Winslow, Josiah, 1629?-1680.
Winslow family.


Mayflower (Ship)


Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony)


Massachusetts--History--New Plymouth, 1620-1691.

F68 / .F83 2017

974.4/02

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