This series has six easy 5 minute installments. This first installment: Gathering Climate of Superstition.IntroductionAmong the people of
Visiting Massachusetts
On the next day, Gibbons took his guest to Roxbury, to see the Governor, the harsh and narrow Dudley, grown gray in repellent virtue and grim
Pilgrims’ First Winter
However rapidly we have sketched, in the preceding pages, the history of the Pilgrims from their settlement in Holland to their removal to America, no
Pilgrims Land at Plymouth Rock
On Monday, December 11th, O. S., a landing was effected upon Forefather's Rock. The site of this stone was preserved by tradition, and a venerable
The Mayflower Compact
They could penetrate the future no farther than to confide in the justice of God and the power of truth. The latter they knew must ultimately prevail,
Land Ho!
The harbor in which the Mayflower now lay is worthy of a passing glance."The Pilgrims Settle Plymouth, Massachussets, featuring a series of excerpts
Mayflower Sets Sail
The particulars of this voyage, more memorable by far than the famed expedition of the Argonauts, and paralleled, if at all, only by the voyage of
Pilgrims Charter Mayflower
. . . the Speedwell, of sixty tons -- miserable misnomer -- was purchased in Holland for the use of the emigrants; and the Mayflower, of a hundred
Pilgrims Prepare to Leave Holland
Their greatest hardship was the compact with the merchants. The Pilgrims were poor and their funds were limited.The Pilgrims Settle Plymouth,