EXPLANATION OF ENGRAVINGS. 1st. Lithographic Map of Plymouth Village. 3d. Landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, Dec. 11,* 1620. 4th. Fac Similes. Brewster, Bradford, Winslow, Standish and Allerton came in the Mayflower; the others came in the Fortune or Ann, excepting Constant and Thomas Southworth, who came about the year 1628. 5th. This house shows the best style of building in the latter part of the seventeenth century. The lot on which it stood was owned by Robert Hicks, merchant, in 1645. It was afterwards owned by Edward Gray, who sold it to John Richard, in 1677. The house was taken down in 1826, and was the oldest in town. The Universalist church stands on the same lot. In this house the mother of the celebrated patriot, James Otis, was born, in 1702. She was the grand daughter of Edward Doty, who came in the Mayflower. 6th. The Fuller Cradle belonged to Dr. Samuel Fuller, who came in the Mayflower, and is now owned by Mrs. Olive Noyes, a descendant and the wife of Jacob 7th. The apple tree was planted by Peregrine White, the first Englishman born in New England, about the year 1648, who died in 1704, in the 84th year of his age. It still produces apples, and the orchard in which it grows is now owned by his descendants, near the lot which he occupied, in Marshfield. *Dec. 21. New Style. INDEX. Adventurous merchants of London,-their agreement with the Adams, John Quincy, remarks on the rights of the Indians, &c., Ann, ship, Alphabetical list of passengers, Page. 16 20 131 47 125 Burying Hill, description of, history and epitaphs, Bushnell, Rev. Dr., remarks on the Mayflower, note, 36 62 17 15 De Tocqueville's Brodhead, J. Romeyn, introductory note to Isaack de Rasieres's Brodhead, J. Romeyn, researches in Europe for ancient docu- Butler, Benjamin F., description of New Netherland, its early Bradford, Gov., extract from his letter to Isaack de Rasieres, Cole's Hill, the first burial place of the Pilgrims, description of, Cape Cod, account of and population, Choate, Rufus, on the burial of the Pilgrims, 66 on Embarkation of the Pilgrims at Delft Haven, Compact signed on board the Mayflower at Cape Cod, Church, Pilgrim, place of meeting in England ascertained, Churches in Plymouth in 1851, Cattle, division of, in 1627, Dwight, Timothy, remarks on Plymouth Rock, Dutch nation, its tonnage, &c. in 1620, note, Dutch Embassy from New Netherland to Plymouth Colony, in De Raisieres's letter to Gov. Bradford, 66 note on same, and explanations, 66 Davis, Samuel, remarks on Manomet Bay, 110 110 104 106 96 100 55 59 96 73 33 57 85 25 18 2 34 145 102-3 13 Dwelling houses to be covered with board or pale, 102 Embarkation of the Pilgrims at Delft Haven, in Holland, 82 the New England coast, Engravings and explanation, Everett, Edward, description of the Mayflower on approaching Fortune, ship, alphabetical list of passengers, 26 125 Hunter, Joseph, of England, his investigations respecting the Pil- grims, Howland, John, his epitaph, his homestead, 66 Jon., of Providence, his age corrected, see Errata, Hutchinson, remarks on the Pilgrims, Hopkins, Stephen, his homestead, Handicraftsmen forbidden to work for strangers, Jury trial established,-copy from Records, Page. 2 42 32 145 20 42 101 100 28 98 15 18 17, 18 68 71 12 49 53 122 122 122-4 104 Mullins, William and Priscilla, note on tradition, 66 visit of Gov. Bradford, to procure corn, Old Colony Club, history of, and first celebration of the anni- versary, Otis, James, extract from his letter to Gov. Barnard, respecting Pilgrim Hall, description of, and list of curiosities, Pilgrim Society, history of, Proposed monument near Plymouth Rock, Pilgrims, brief account of previous to their arrival in America, Rock, Forefather's, description of, and history, Records of Plymouth Colony, 66 66 66 Extracts from, Saltonstall, Leverett, on our early history, Samoset, his interview with the Pilgrims, Mar. 16, 1621, Sagamore Hill at Manomet described, introduced in Sargent's painting, Timber prohibited from exportation, Watson's Hill, description of, and history, Webster, Daniel, on the Landing of the Pilgrims, Winslow, Edward, sale to Miles Standish, six shares in Red Cow, Weir's Painting of the embarkation at Delft Haven, in 1620, PILGRIM MEMORIALS, ETC. A Brief Account of the Pilgrims, previous to their Arrival in America. 'We have an advantage over all nations in being able to trace our history from the beginning. We have no fabulous age, but it has more romance than any which has ever been written.'-SALTONSTALL. It is well known, that the removal of the Pilgrims from England to Holland, whence they afterwards sailed to America, was one of the results of that great religious movement during the latter part of the sixteenth and the first part of the seventeenth centuries, which for a long time convulsed and eventually revolutionized England itself. It was at the closing period of Queen Elizabeth's reign, in the year sixteen hundred and two, a period of ardent excitement in relation to the great objects of human pursuit; when the progressive influence of the Reformation, earnestly engaged the attention of every thoughtful mind; when the recently discovered art of printing facilitated the dissemination of knowledge, and new discoveries by successive navigators had widely enlarged the bounds of commercial enterprise; that we first trace our Pilgrim Fathers, in the north of England, manfully contending against the principalities and |