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

Fraser, Rebecca, (author.).

Record details

ISBN: 9781250108562
Physical Description: xiii, 358 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2017.
Copyright: ©2017

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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.