Bibliograph

The Mayflower, the families, the voyage, and the founding of America, Rebecca Fraser

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The Mayflower, the families, the voyage, and the founding of America, Rebecca Fraser

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrationsportraitsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Mayflower

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

989124127

Responsibility statement

Rebecca Fraser

Sub title

the families, the voyage, and the founding of America

Summary

Draws on contemporary documents to examine the lives of an ordinary family, the Winslows, made less ordinary by their responses to the challenges of the New World after their passage on the Mayflower

Table Of Contents

Prologue: 1676 -- Droitwich -- Leiden -- Leaving Holland -- The voyage -- Land -- Massasoit -- The building of "our town" -- Good farms -- Massachusetts begins -- The Pequot War -- The Pan-Indian Conspiracy -- Leaving for London, 1646 -- Republican England -- Hercules -- Generational change -- The coming of war -- King Philip's War -- Penelope alone: the widow's bed "not priced" -- Penelope's final actions

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