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. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ... Plymouth Wills, I. 53.--Will and Inventory. Also Catalogue of 400 volumes of his library. Book of Plymouth Deeds--Settlement of his Estate, 115. General Laws of New Plymouth, printed at Boston, 1685.--Contains the Combination and Charter of the first associates, 1620. "Chief of the Pilgrims; or The Life and Times of William Brewster," by the Rev. Ashbel Steele, Phila., 1857. Chief of the Pilgrims purports to be a life of William Brewster. A hundred or more of its pages are a life of Davison; such references to Brewster as these are, are speculations and vague surmises, coupled with sage guesses as to what must have been his reflections at various political and other crises. The fact is that the two or three pages in Bradford, on Brewster's early life, are by the help of British Annalists, a Life of Davison and the author Steele's fertile and somewhat diffuse imagination expanded into over a hundred. The first matter of interest in the book is the titles of some of the works Brewster published in Holland, (172-177). Amid some sense, much sentiment, these: "Man is altogether vanity," is stated (without naming authority) to be the Elder's motto (248). (353) the Elder removes to Duxbury, 1632; (362) the Elder counsels dismissal of Roger Williams, 1633; no authority mentioned though exact words of W. B. are quoted; (365) the Elder's settlement upon his son Love, upon his marriage with Sarah Collier, May 15, 1634 RESIDENCE OF JOSHUA FREEMAN, JR., AT PORTLAND, ME. (Front and Side Views) In this house, built about 17(30 and owned and occupied by Joshua' Freeman, Jr., (see p. 283), Capt. John' Qutnby wooed and won his wife, Eunice" Freeman, in 1782 (see p. 316). (From Photographs by the Editor, August, 19C9) Takes up his residence with his son...
