History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, their ancestry and descendants; basis of Americanization (1922) (14597146899)

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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ON THIS SITE THE PILGRIMS STOOD ERE SAILING FOR AMERICA.
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1-21 THIS TABLET GI\ES A LEAF FROM PILGRIM HISTORY. 268 HISTORY OF THE PILGRIMS JND PURITJNS grims—was unfit for the voyage.* He insisted on returnnumber two, which, duly made, landed them at Plymouthsharbor of refuge in Devonshire. There Mayor ThomasDownes and other warm friends entertained, and at depar-ture, wished them God Speed—vastly different treatmentfrom that given them by Bostonians governed by MayorMayson. Real Bostonians may have been innocent ofthe scandalous treatment so lavishly accorded the Separa-tists thirteen years before. Presumably some Englishmenhad turned a leaf. Yet the hospitality accorded to thebrave venturers of 1620 was not one whit less than thesplendid welcome and entertainment given in 1920 duringeleven days of pageantry, feasting, and renewal of ancientfriendships. In the pavement of the jetty fronting the shore shownin the picture, the traveler stands on this inset stone slab insize some eighteen by thirty-six inches. The four figures1620 on this s