PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I. The Pilgrims in Holland.
CHAPTER II. The Voyage.
CHAPTER III. Exploring the Coast.
CHAPTER IV. The Landing.
CHAPTER V. Life On Shore.
CHAPTER VI The Indians.
CHAPTER VII. Exploring Tours.
CHAPTER VIII. Menaces of Famine and War.
CHAPTER IX. The Weymouth Colonists.
CHAPTER X. The Sickness of Massasoit and End of the Weymouth Colony.
CHAPTER XI. Domestic and Foreign Policy.
CHAPTER XII. Increase and Growth of the Settlements.
CHAPTER XIII. The Courtship of Miles Standish.
CHAPTER XIV. The Trading-Posts Menaced.
CHAPTER XV. Removal to Duxbury.
CHAPTER XVI. The Standish Monument.
FOOTNOTES
Transcriber's Notes
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Miles Standish
THE
PURITAN CAPTAIN.
BY
JOHN S. C. ABBOTT.
NEW YORK:
DODD & MEAD, No. 762 BROADWAY.
1872.
AMERICAN PIONEERS AND PATRIOTS.
Miles Standish,
THE
PURITAN CAPTAIN.
BY JOHN S. C. ABBOTT.
ILLUSTRATED.
NEW YORK:
DODD & MEAD, No. 762 BROADWAY.
1872.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872, by
DODD & MEAD,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
Middleton & Co.,
Stereotypers,
Bridgeport, Conn.
Press of Lange, Little & Hillman.
108 Wooster St., N. Y.
TO THE DESCENDANTS OF
CAPTAIN MILES STANDISH,
NOW NUMBERING THOUSANDS,
THIS VOLUME IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED;
WITH THE HOPE THAT NO ONE OF THEM MAY EVER DIM
THE LUSTRE OF THAT NAME,
TO WHICH THE VIRTUES OF THEIR DISTINGUISHED ANCESTOR
HAVE ATTACHED IMPERISHABLE RENOWN.
JOHN S. C. ABBOTT.
