THE INDIANS AND THE 

 MILK PAILS 



ELIZABETH HAWKINS was a fair-haired, blue- 

 eyed little English girl who lived in London 

 t\vo hundred years ago. She grew to be u 

 young woman, strong and energetic, married 

 Mr. Charles Patrick, and on October 6, 1732, 

 with her husband and children started for Amer- 

 ica. They came in a sailing vessel to Boston. 

 There were no big steamers then that could 

 cross the ocean in less than a week. Robert 

 Fulton's famous steamship did not make its first 

 voyage until nearly one hundred years later, so 

 these pioneers . were six weeks on the Atlantic. 



The Patricks rested over night in Boston, and 

 the next day they took a sailing "packet" for 

 Falmouth, in the colony of Massachusetts, land- 

 ing up the Fore River at a point which has 

 long been the quaint village of Stroudwater and 

 is now a part of Portland, the chief city in 

 the state of Maine. 



Mrs. Lillian M. N. Stevens, for many years 

 President of the National Woman's Christian 



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