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227 pages ; 20 cm. |
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"Cap giant 217"--Spine. |
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First ed. published in 1856 under title: History of Plymouth Plantation. |
| Contents |
Origin of the puritans ; The Scrooby congregation -- The departure for Holland: incidents of the passage -- Life in Amsterdam ; The removal to Leyden under John Robinson and William Brewster ; Arminians and other heretics -- Dissatisfaction in Holland -- Projects for Guina and Virginia colonies ; The Virginia company -- Emigration efforts of Thomas Weston, John Carver, and Robert Cushman ; Pilgrim Contract of 1620 ; Cushman's defense of his contract policies -- The Exodus of Holland -- Preparations at Plymouth (England) and London -- The Mayflower voyage -- The Cape Cod arrival ; Encounter with the Indians -- 1620 : The Mayflower compact ; Election of Governor John Carver ; Samoset, Squanto, and Chief Massasoyt ; The Peace treaty -- 1621 : Carver's death and the election of Governor Bradford; Squanto and the Indians ; The First harvest ; The Narragansett challenge ; Bradford versus Christmas Day observance -- 1622 : Squanto's intrigues ; The second harvest -- 1623 : Weston's colony; Experiment in primitive communism ; Arrival of the Anne -- 1624 : Factionalism in Plymouth ; Dividing the land ; The Strange case of the Reverend John Lyford -- 1625 : The Oldam mutiny case ; New revelations concerning Lyford and his downfall -- 1626 : Death of John Robinson ; Trading and planting replaces the fishing business -- 1627 : The Great land distribution ; The Ship for Virginia ; Bradford's guarantee of Plymouth's debts -- 1628 Allerton's mission ; The Merrymount Maypole affair -- 1629 : Allerton negotiations in England -- 1630 : Execution of John Billington -- 1631 : James Shirley's reports from England ; The Case of Sir Christopher Gardener -- 1632 : Shirley and Allerton ; Roger Williams, Rebel at Plymouth -- 1634 : The Murder of Hocking ; Smallpox among the Indians -- 1636 : The Pequot war -- 1637 : Gov. John Winthrop and the Peqout war -- 1638 : The Arthur Peach gang ; The Earthquake of 1638 -- 1639 and 1640 : Land division controversies ; Bradford surrenders his lands ; Shirley and the Plymouth accounts -- 1642 : Plymouth crime wave ; Crimes, sins, and heresies in New England -- 1643 : Life and death of William Brewster ; Pilgrim longevity and health ; Narragansett conspiracy and the New England defensive federation -- 1644 : Proposal to move the colony ; Indian attacks ; Treaty with the Narragasetts -- 1645 : The Narragansett-Mohegan war -- 1646 : Rioting in the harbor. |
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Massachusetts -- History -- New Plymouth, 1620-1691.
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Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony) -- Early works to 1800.
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Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony) (OCoLC)fst01064054
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Massachusetts. (OCoLC)fst01204307
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1620-1691
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| Genre/Form |
Early works. (OCoLC)fst01411636
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Author |
Wish, Harvey, 1909-1968 editor.
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