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Author Fraser, Rebecca, author.

Title The Mayflower : the families, the voyage, and the founding of America / Rebecca Fraser.

Publisher New York, New York: St. Martin's Press, c2017.

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ITEM LOC CALL # STATUS
 Superior adult nonfiction  974.4 F864m    AVAILABLE
 Webster adult nonfiction  974.4 FRA HC    AVAILABLE
Edition First United States edition.
Descript xiii, 358 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : black and white illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Note Nonfiction.
Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-339) and index.
Contents Prologue: 1676 -- Droitwich -- Leiden -- Leaving Holland -- The voyage -- Land -- Massasoit -- The building of "our town" -- Good farms -- Massachusetts begins -- The Pequot War -- The Pan-Indian Conspiracy -- Leaving for London, 1646 -- Republican England -- Hercules -- Generational change -- The coming of war -- King Philip's War -- Penelope alone: the widow's bed "not priced" -- Penelope's final actions.
Summary "A vivid narrative history of the Mayflower and of the Winslow family, who traveled to America in search of a new world." -- dust jacket.
Subject Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony)
Massachusetts -- History -- New Plymouth, 1620-1691.
Winslow, Edward, 1595-1655.
Winslow, Josiah, 1629?-1680.
Winslow family.
Mayflower (Ship)
ISBN/ISSN 125010856X (hardcover)
9781250108562 (hardcover)