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Capricorn giant volume CAP217
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English
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Written over a span of twenty years, "Of Plymouth Plantation" is the authoritative account of the founding of the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts by its leader William Bradford. The journal, here translated into modern English by Harold Paget in 1920, was begun by Bradford in 1630 and tells the story of the Pilgrims from their 1608 settlement in the Dutch Republic in Europe, through their voyage in 1620 aboard the "Mayflower" to the New World, and...
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Genealogy and local history volume LH18307
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English
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Sir,-The enclosed ancient manuscript I found some years ago in a grocer's shop in this town, of whom I obtained it with a view of saving what remained from destruction. I lament extremely that a page has been torn out; and it gives me pleasure that I now have an opportunity of placing it in your hands,-a freedom I am induced to take from your advertisement of the first of November, 1792, and from a persuasion that it may contribute in some measure...
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2020.
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English
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This edition of William Bradford's Of Plimoth Plantation is presented as part of the observation of the 400th anniversary of the founding of Plimoth Colony in 1620. It is offered not ony to observe an historic milestone and experience by to continue a reassessment of the meaning of Plimoth, as an act of faith but also an act of colonization; as a step toward a new life for some that meant the end of a way of life for others who had lived there from...
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