HISTORICAL 



INTRODUCTION. 



Indeed, of that one-half of the Mayflower's company 

 (fifty) who survived the first year of the settlement, at 

 least thirteen were still in the land of the living, though 

 not all still within the limits of the Old Colony. George 

 Soule and John Alden, in a hale old age, resided at Dux- 

 bury; and Susannah White — who had enjoyed the singu- 

 lar honor of being first the first mother in the new Colony, 

 and then the first bride — was keeping still the house at 

 Careswell, which her second husband, the honored Gov. 

 Edward Winslow, had left to her possession. These three 

 were already adults when the}' first saw the New World. 

 And, of the children who romped along the Mayflower's 

 decks, there were still living Resolved White, who seems 

 now to have been a resident of Salem; Giles and Con- 

 stantia Hopkins, both at Eastham, — the latter the widow 

 of Nicholas Snow; Henry Sampson, of Duxbury; Joseph 

 Rogers, of Eastham; Samuel Fuller, of Barnstable; Sam- 

 uel Eaton, of Middleborough ; (Rev.) John Cooke, of 

 Dartmouth; Mary Allerton, — who was destined to be the 

 last survivor of the Mayflower company, dying in 1699, 

 aet. 89, — who still lived at Plymouth with her venerable 

 and excellent husband, Elder Thomas Cushman, who 

 came in the "Fortune," 1621; and Mary Chilton, now 

 the recent widow of John Winslow, of Boston. Nathaniel 

 Morton, who, five years before, had published his Netv- 

 England^s Memorial^ was still Secretary of the Colony. 



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