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    The Romantic Story of the Mayflower Pilgrims And Its Place in the Life of To-day
    The Romantic Story of the Mayflower Pilgrims And Its Place in the Life of To-day
    The Romantic Story of the Mayflower Pilgrims And Its Place in the Life of To-day
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    The Romantic Story of the Mayflower Pilgrims And Its Place in the Life of To-day

    By Albert Christopher Addison

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      The Romantic Story of the Mayflower Pilgrims And Its Place in the Life of To-day - Albert Christopher Addison

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      Title: The Romantic Story of the Mayflower Pilgrims

      And Its Place in the Life of To-day

      Author: Albert Christopher Addison

      Release Date: July 17, 2011 [EBook #36756]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ROMANTIC STORY--MAYFLOWER PILGRIMS ***

      Produced by K Nordquist, Leonard Johnson and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This

      book was produced from scanned images of public domain

      material from the Google Print project.)

      THE ROMANTIC STORY of

      the MAYFLOWER PILGRIMS

      AND ITS PLACE IN THE

      LIFE OF TO-DAY

      High ideals in the conduct of life are what survive, and that is why the Pilgrim Narrative stands forth in the pages of every history as one of the great events of the time.—Senator Lodge, at the dedication of the Pilgrim Memorial Monument at Provincetown, August 5th 1910.

      Photograph by A. S. Burbank, Plymouth

      From the Painting by W. F. Halsall

      The Mayflower in Plymouth Harbour

      THE

      ROMANTIC STORY

      OF THE MAYFLOWER

      PILGRIMS

      AND ITS PLACE IN THE

      LIFE OF TO-DAY

      BY A. C. ADDISON

      AUTHOR OF "OLD BOSTON: ITS PURITAN SONS

      AND PILGRIM SHRINES," ETC.

      WITH NUMEROUS ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS

      BOSTON

      L. C. PAGE & COMPANY

      MDCCCCXI

      COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY

      L. C. PAGE & COMPANY

      (INCORPORATED)

      ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

      FIRST IMPRESSION, SEPTEMBER, 1911

      THE·PLIMPTON·PRESS·NORWOOD·MASS·U·S·A

      CONTENTS

      THE PUBLISHERS WISH TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE COURTESY OF MR. A. S. BURBANK, OF PLYMOUTH, MASS., IN AUTHORIZING THEIR USE OF HIS PHOTOGRAPHS, REPRODUCTIONS OF WHICH FORM A CONSIDERABLE PORTION OF THE ILLUSTRATIONS OF THIS BOOK

      ILLUSTRATIONS

      PREFACE

      By a strange yet happy coincidence, on the very day the writer of these lines sat silent in a Pilgrim cell at Boston—the Lincolnshire town where the Pilgrims were imprisoned in their first attempt to flee their native country—pondering on the past and inscribing his humble lines to the New World pioneers, the President of the American Republic was at Provincetown, Massachusetts, dedicating a giant monument to the planters of New Plymouth, the last of the many memorials erected to them. The date was the fifth of August, 1910. President Taft in his address at the commemoration ceremonies declared very truly that the purpose which prompted the Pilgrims' progress and the spirit which animated them furnish the United States to-day with the highest ideals of moral life and political citizenship. Three years before, another American President, Mr. Roosevelt, at the cornerstone laying of this monument, enlarged on the character of their achievement, and in ringing words proclaimed its immensity and world-wide significance.

      Down through the years the leaders of men have borne burning witness to the wonderful work of the Pilgrim Fathers. Its influence is deep-rooted in the world's history to-day, and in the life and the past of our race it stands its own enduring monument.

      The object of the present narrative is to give to the reader an account of the Mayflower Pilgrims that is concise and yet sufficiently comprehensive to embrace all essentials respecting the personality and pilgrimage of the Forefathers, whom the poet Whittier pictures to us in vivid verse as:

      those brave men who brought

      To the ice and iron of our winter time

      A will as firm, a creed as stern, and wrought

      With one mailed hand and with the other fought.

      In the pages which follow, the Old World homes and haunts of the Pilgrim Fathers are depicted and described. The story has the advantage of having been written on the scene of their early trials, concerted plans of escape, and stormy emigration, by one who, from long association, is familiar with the history and traditions of Boston and the quaint old sister port of Gainsborough, and perhaps imparts to the work some feeling of the life and local atmosphere of those places in the days that are dealt with, and before. The Pilgrims are followed into Holland and on their momentous journey across seas to the West. The story aims at being trustworthy and up-to-date as regards the later known facts of Pilgrim history and the developments which reflect it in our own time. It does what no other book on the subject has attempted: it traces the individual lives and varying fortunes of the Pilgrims after their settlement in the New World; and it states the steps taken in recent years to perpetuate the memory of the heroic band. The tale that is told is one of abiding interest to the Anglo-Saxon race; and its attractiveness in these pages is enhanced by the series of illustrations which accompanies the printed record. Grateful acknowledgment is made of much kindly assistance rendered during the preparation of the work, especially by the Honourable William S.

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