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A great deal has been written about the Pilgrims, perhaps more than any other small group in American history. Yet they continue to be extravagantly praised for accomplishing what they never attempted or intended, and they are even more foolishly abused for possessing attitudes and attributes foreign to them. In the popular mind they are still generally confused, to their great disadvantage, with the Puritans who settled to the north of them around Boston Bay. The purpose of the Willison narrative is to allow the Pilgrims to tell their own story, insofar as possible, in their own words and deeds. Saints and Strangers brings back to life men and women who were among the most stalwart of American ancestors. George F. Willison destroys the myth that too long has been created in the American mind: that Pilgrims, while pious and much to be admired, were a drab, stern people dedicated to prudery. Nothing could be further from the facts. These were lusty English people who were well aware of good food, drink, and pleasurable living. They were also an adventurous, hardheaded community united in their campaign for freedom of worship. The book takes the reader from the Puritan exile in Holland, their long and troubled voyage from old Europe to new America, and the hazardous period of settling on a strange, bleak coast. The Puritans were comprised of weavers, smiths, carpenters, printers, tailors, and working people--with scarcely a blue blood among them. It was a long trek to Plymouth Rock from English village life. Willison has produced a realistic picture of these people who often have been inaccurately portrayed with little appreciation of their substantial place in the history of a New World.
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Index
A
Abigail (ship), 270
Abnaki (Wabenaki) Indians, 171, 263-64
Acadians, 410, 482, 486
Adams, Charles Francis, 470
quoted, 282-83, 426
Adams, Ellen Newton (Mrs. John; later Mrs. Kenelm Winslow), and children, 445, 449, 451
Adame, John (colonist), 445
death, 315
wife and children, 445, 449, 451
Adams, John, President, quoted, 418, 480
Adams, John Quincy, 143, 426, 483
quoted, 421-22
Adams, Sam, 414-15
Adultery, 265, 319, 324, 360, 479
Agamenticus (York, Me.), 331, 445
Ainsworth, Rev. Henry, 65, 67, 70, 72, 78-79, 94, 330, 457-59, 473
Book of Psalmes, 86, 459, 481
death, 341, 459
ref. to, 91, 104, 117, 342
daughter, 76-77
Ainsworthians, 79, 341, 438
Alcoholic beverages. see Liquor.
Alden, Maj. Briggs, 419
Alden, John, 130-31, 133, 263, 297-98, 310-11, 314, 373, 381, 386, 410, 442, 457, 469, 480
ass’t governor, 297, 442, 456
held for murder, 298, 305
leads heresy hunt, 378
death, 407-08
ref. to, 320, 441
Longfellow and, 130, 336, 430, 481, 485-486
wife, see Alden, Priscilla
children, 314, 336, 407, 442, 481
granddaughter, 403
descendants, 476, 478
Alden, Jonathan, funeral of, 481
Alden, Priscilla Mullins (Mrs. John), 130-31, 314, 407, 442, 469
Longfellow and, children, granddaughter, and descendants, see Alden, John.
Alden, Rev. Timothy, 476-77
Alden family, 410
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- dedication
- Preface
- I Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrim Saga
- II The Postmaster at Scrooby
- III Seeds of Grace and Vertue
- IV Ye Lord’s Free People
- V Scandal in Brownists Alley
- VI At the Green Gate, Leyden
- VII The Merchant Adventurers
- VIII A Waighty Vioage
- IX Mutiny on the Mayflower
- X Babes in the Wilderness
- XI New Plimoth Planted
- XII Yellow Feather, the Big Chief
- XIII Fortune
- XIV Cold Comfort for Hungrie Bellies
- XV Liquidation of Wessagusset
- XVI The Season of Gentle Showers
- XVII Unsavorie Salte
- XVIII The Undertakers
- XIX Purge of Joylity
- XX Into ye Briers
- XXI Diaspora
- XXII Minister Trouble
- XXIII Thrown by the Bay Horse
- XXIV Apotheosis
- Appendix A, The Pilgrim Company
- Appendix B, Officers of the Old Colony and of the Pilgrim Church
- Notes
- Selective Bibliography
- Index