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The Mayflower : the families, the voyage, and the founding of America
Title:
The Mayflower : the families, the voyage, and the founding of America
Author:
Fraser, Rebecca, author.
ISBN:
9781250108562
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Uniform Title:
Mayflower generation
Edition:
First U.S. edition.
Physical Description:
xiii, 358 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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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