"... We all want to know how it was in the beginning.... " (Preface)
"... For 65 days, the Mayflower had blundered her way through storms, and headwinds, her bottom a shaggy pelt of seaweed and barnacles, her leaky deck spewing salt water onto her passengers' devoted heads...." (Chapter 1)
"...There was a thin slice of moon overhead, gradually fading to nothingness, as the sun rose behind them in the East. Up ahead to the West was what Jones believed to be the forearm of Cape Cod...." (Chapter 2)
"... Massassoit, the most powerful Native leader... strong and powerful...presided over a people who had been devastated by disease...." (Chapter 3)
"...Dorothy Bradford fell..." (Chapter 4)
Before the ship landed, Dorothy either fell or jump. She had left behind her 4 year old son in Leiden, and she missed him terribly. Her husband, felt that it was safer for him in Europe than in America. I feel the boy must have felt confused and abandoned, and I don't doubt that Dorothy Bradford felt the same way.
"... Puritans believed that the entire Sabbath must be devoted to worship...." (Chapter 4)
"... After more than 2 months at sea, there was what they termed a 'great need' for washing, and the women found a fresh water pond near Provincetown...." (Chapter 4)
"...the banks of the harbor had been dotted with wigwams, each with a curling plume of wood smoke rising from the hole in its roof... fields of corn, beans, squash...canoes...blue fish, bass, lobsters, buried clams...." (Chapter 5)
"...1616 to 1619, diseases brought this centuries-old community to an end... gruesome evidence of the epidemic was scattered all around...." (Chapter 5)
"... a tall straight man... his hair was black, short in front and long in back... he was 'stark naked' with just a fringe strap of leather around his waist. A pilgrim was moved to throw his coat over the Indian's bare shoulders.... (Chapter 6)
"... Susanna White lost her husband...Edward lost his wife... a month and a half later,... Edward and Susanna became the first couple in Plymouth to marry... children needed to be cared for; households needed to be maintained...." (Chapter 7)
"... For more than a week, the ship lingered inexplicably at the tip of Cape Cod...." (Chapter 8)
"...Plymouth by Winter of 1623 was a place of exceptional discipline... it was in their best interests to work together...." (Chapter 9)
"... at Wessagussett, an entirely different community had come into being... deadly combination of malnutrition and despair.... Indians possessed stores of corn that they were saving for the Spring...." (Chapter 9)
"... 1630... an armada of 17 ships arrived... 1625... Bradford received the stunning news that the Congregation's minister, John Robinson, had died in Leiden. Profound sense of sadness and inadequacy...."(Chapter 10)
"...The Pilgrim diplomat is a smooth tongued cunning fellow....." (Chapter 11)
"...The Pilgrims...sailed across a vast and dangerous ocean to a wilderness where against impossible odds, they had a made a home...." (Chapter 12)
"... There were hundreds of warriors, their faces painted, their hair "trimmed up in comb fashion..." (mohawk?) "...they danced to the beat of drums...." (Chapter 13)
"...Upon the return of husband...Alice Church...almost instantly became pregnant...as a son grew in the womb of A.C., the war...spread with terrifying speed...." (Chapter 14)
"... There was another Native group to consider. The mohawks, a powerful subset of the Iroquois...." (Chapter 15)
TO BE CONTINUED...
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