PLYMOUTH

“Forever honored be this, the place of our fathers’ refuge! Forever remembered the day which saw them, weary and distressed, broken in everything but spirit, poor in all but faith and courage, at last secure from the dangers of wintry seas, and impressing this shore with the first footsteps of civilized man!”

—Daniel Webster

From the oration delivered
at Plymouth December 22,
1820, in commemoration of
the first settlement of New
England.

CONTENTS

PAGE
Foreword[i]
The Pilgrims of the Mayflower[9]
List of Mayflower Passengers[10]
The Compact[13]
Signers of the Compact[14]
From Plymouth, England to Plymouth, Massachusetts[15]
Departure and Landfalls
Inscriptions at:
Southampton[15]
Provincetown[15]
Exploration[16]
Plymouth Rock[16]
The Monument over Plymouth Rock[17]
Coles Hill. The First Burying Ground[18]
List of Those Who Died in the First Winter[19]
Statue of Massasoit[20]
Memorial Seats[20]
The First Street (Leyden Street)[21]
Common House[22]
Town Brook—The Brewster Gardens[24]
Burial Hill[26]
The Fort[26]
The Guns[27]
The Pilgrim Progress[28]
The Graves[29]
The Memorial to the Pilgrim Women[33]
List of Women and Girls Who Came in the Mayflower
The National Monument to the Forefathers[34]
The First Church in Plymouth[36]
The Covenant[36]
The Elders[37]
The Congregation—from Dr. Charles W. Eliot’s inscription on the Standish Monument in Duxbury[37]
The Meetinghouses[38]
The Colony and Town Records (1620–1691)
The Pilgrim Citizen—from “The Pilgrim Spirit” by George P. Baker[40]
The Colony and Town Records, and the Records of the New England Confederacy[41]
The Pilgrim Society
Its establishment and purpose[43]
Its history[43]
Its collections[44]
The Old Colony Club[47]
Its celebration of Forefathers’ Day
The Plymouth Antiquarian Society[48]
The Antiquarian House[51]
The Harlow House: A 17th Century Home[53]
The Howland House[55]
The Sparrow House[56]
Authorities[57]