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Identifier: historyofpilgrim01sawy (find matches)
Title: History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, their ancestry and descendants; basis of Americanization
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Sawyer, Joseph Dillaway, b. 1849 Griffis, William Elliot, 1843-1928
Subjects: Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony) Puritans Massachusetts -- History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Publisher: New York, Century History Co
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH SAVED FROM DEATH BY POCAHONTAS
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INDIANS ATTACKING A JAMESTOWN HOME. 2i6 HISTORY Of THE PILGRIMS AND PURITANS 1607, o^ th^ first permanent English settlers in the NewWorld, followed closely by those snow-bound intrepid menwho sailed up the Penobscot and settled Pemaquid. Thesefacts of success influenced the Pilgrims in giving Guianathe cold shoulder. The Jamestown Settlement little knew that three dra-gons, Fire, Famine and Massacre, lurked in swamp, forest,and waterway. It was a strange coincidence that dAyllon,the Spaniard, had eighty-one years before selected this samemiasma-saturated spot—where today negroes buy quinine asgroceries—on which to plant his colony. He named it SanMiguel de Guandise, but the dragon-trio quickly drove himback to home shores, and no vestige of former occupancyremained to warn the newcomers of the many impendingbut unseen disasters before them. These Englishmen reached the strand of tidewater,Virginia, and, too indolent to seek healthier anchorage, theytied the cables of their ships

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