Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ... Chapter III RESOLVED WHITE Came over 1620 Mayflower Resolved White (Judith Vassall) Samuel White (Rebecca ) Penelope White (Peter Crapo) John Crapo (Sarah Clark) Peter Crapo (Sarah West) Jesse Crapo (Phebe Howland) Henry H. Crapo (Mary Ann Slocum) William W. Crapo (Sarah Davis Tappan) Stanford T. Crapo (Emma Morley) William Wallace Crapo RESOLVED WHITE The supreme patent of nobility for us Old Colony folk is to have "come over on the Mayflower. ' This distinction your seven times great grandfather Resolved White, among others, brings you. "This is the one story," said George F. Hoar, "to which for us, or for our children, nothing in human annals may be cited for parallel or comparison save the story of Bethlehem. There is none other told in heaven or among men like the story of the Pilgrims. Upon this rock is founded our house; it shall not fall. * * * * The sons of the Pilgrim have crossed the Mississippi and possess the shores of the Pacific; the tree our fathers set covered at first a little space by the seaside. It has planted its banyan branches in the ground. Wherever the son of the Pilgrim goes he will carry with him what the Pilgrim brought from Leyden -- the love of liberty, reverence for law, trust in God. His inherited instinct for the building of states will be as sure as that of the bee for building her cell or the eagle his nest. * If cowardice dissuade him from the peril and sacrifice, without which nothing can be gained in the great crises of national life, let him answer: I am of the blood of them who crossed the ocean in the interested in the new lands across the sea. They were both among the original patentees in 1628 of the..."