| Edition |
First U.S. edition |
| Description |
xiii, 358 pages, [16] unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page [319]-339) and index. |
| 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. |
| 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. Includes significant references to other Mayflower travelers and indigenous native peoples: John Alden, Isacc and Mary Allerton, Thomas Andrewes, Annawon (Wampanoag commander), Penelope Bellingham, Richard Bellingham, William Bradford, Anne Bradstreet, Jonathan Brewster, William Brewster, Canonchet (Narrangansett chief), Canonicus (Narragansett chief), John Carver, Benjamin Church, Elizabeth Curwen, George Curwen, Thomas Dudley, John Endecott, Samuel Fuller, Anne Hutchinson, Christopher Jones (Captain of the Mayflower), Massasoit (Wampanoag chief), Reverend Increase Mather, Miantonomo (Narragansett chief), Edward Pelham, Elizabeth Pelham, Herbert Pelham, King Philip (Wampanoag chief also known as Metacomet), John Robinson, Squanto (Patuxet Wampanoag), Myles Standish, Uncas (Mohegan chief), Weetamoo (Queen of the Pocassets), Roger Williams, John Winthrop. |
| Subject |
Winslow, Edward, 1595-1655.
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Winslow, Josiah, 1629?-1680.
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Winslow family.
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Mayflower (Ship)
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Winslow, Edward, 1595-1655. (OCoLC)fst00004749
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Winslow family. (OCoLC)fst00217332
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Winslow, Josiah, 1629?-1680. (OCoLC)fst00472123
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Mayflower (Ship) (OCoLC)fst00511426
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Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony)
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Massachusetts -- History -- New Plymouth, 1620-1691.
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Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony) (OCoLC)fst01064054
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Massachusetts. (OCoLC)fst01204307
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| Chronological Term |
1620-1691
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| ISBN |
9781250108562 (hardcover) |
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125010856X (hardcover) |
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