History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, their ancestry and descendants; basis of Americanization (1922) (14597060048)

Identifier: historyofpilgrim01sawy (find matches)
Title: History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, their ancestry and descendants; basis of Americanization
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Sawyer, Joseph Dillaway, b. 1849 Griffis, William Elliot, 1843-1928
Subjects: Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony) Puritans Massachusetts -- History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Publisher: New York, Century History Co
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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INTERIOR OF MEMORIAL CHURCH. follow other Nonconformists to Amsterdam, that City ofRefuge for Englishmen blessed with stinging consciences. John Robinson preached in this same GainsboroughChurch and assembled his little flock in the old Guildhall;that is, when they were not driven into cellar and hay loftto escape the searching eye of the informer ever on handto gain lucre and fame by jailing his fellows. John Robinsons birthplace was most probably at Stur-ton-le-Steeple in Nottingham in 1576. It is certain thathis childhood was spent there. His bones rest in Leyden,where he died. The uniquely splendid John Robinsonchrysanthemum specially grown for the Tercentenary Pil-grim celebration in Leyden, August 31, 1920, and presented THE SEPARATISTS IN ENGLAND 115
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>»*> By permission of George Brocklehurst of Gainsborough. DOORWAY TO GAINSBOROUGHS GUILDHALL. lib HISTORY OF THE PILGRIMS JXD PURITANS