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gengers i little moreclo ely. H > the) had i.,. „ uill . M nowed b] repeated separations from the common |1(.,,|. At old Scroobj thej had separated rrom all n v,.„-i,| ar ound them; going from there, the loss darliiK >ta | behind; they had left full) half their numb •,| surely not the mosl courag< ous half, at Leydcn; tin w hostartedand became discouraged had return..! a l the last moment with the captain of the "Speedv l|: the remaining ones weresurely cast In an heroic m ild, < and the blood of an hundred kings was not mor< d than was theirs. There were one hundred and two passengers upon the vessel, seventy-three male- and twenty-nine females. There were fifty-nine adults, eleven hit- i employes or apprentices, and thirty two children. Nearly all were blessed with plain, old-fas in ed English names, One-fifth of the males bore I he simple

name of J o h n , ami almosl as many more had that of

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Catherine, Elizabeth, Doi thy,

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Mary, and Ann prodominatod amonir t h o o t l m r

There were no Lizzies or Bessies or Mollies among thom. They were very commonly beloM middle lit . and but one couple, so far as Is known, was above fifty years of age. Concerning the individuals, the chief Interest centers in the names of Carver, Brewster, Bradford, Stand ish,

Fuller, Howland, Hopkins and Alden. Would that wo

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could stop to speak a word of each one of them! They ,ll,,,n : do not need it, for history and literature \\ ill kpop ' green in the grateful memory of a might] nation and of the world through all generations, but perhaps we might be profited thereby. m on Saturday, November 20, 1620, the [ndlans on the outer shore of Cape Cod were able to discern a sail P ^ g . he rim of the eastern horizon, for that mo Ing the long-deferred, magnetic cry % -i and ho'" Ua* of %

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English company had secured certain land rliht* for them from the Virginia tCnmnn, w ompan to the 8 0 U f c h hi, ,f Bonth b u t y » «ose torr tor) was "' ' o i vers uncertain llmltn s ih

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