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Chief of the Pilgrims : Or the Life and Time of William Brewster, Ruling Elder of the Pilgrim Company That Founded New Plymouth, the Parent Colony of New England, In 1620 by Ashbel Steele (1857, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPantianos Classics
ISBN-101789875420
ISBN-139781789875423
eBay Product ID (ePID)24069251732
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Book TitleChief of the Pilgrims : Or the Life and Time of William Brewster, Ruling Elder of the Pilgrim Company That Founded New Plymouth, the Parent Colony of New England, In 1620
Number of Pages194 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicReligious, Political, Historical
Publication Year1857
GenreBiography & Autobiography
AuthorAshbel Steele
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight10.3 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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SynopsisWilliam Brewster was an important official who helped organize passage aboard the Mayflower, an English ship which took a group of migrating families to Massachusetts. This biography begins long before the Mayflower's famous voyage of 1620. We are treated to a deep examination of politics and religion in Elizabethan England, which shaped the actions which Brewster later took. His education in Cambridge, and early experience in the ambassadorial and diplomatic service, would prove invaluable to his later efforts in promoting the establishment of the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts. Much of the groundwork took place in Holland, where Brewster worked as a teacher, meeting a number of likeminded Puritans who aspired to a new life in North America. As we learn in this text, organizing and financing this trans-Atlantic journey was a complex and arduous task. As the most formally qualified and experienced passenger, Brewster was instrumental to readying the Mayflower ship and the families who joined the voyage. After some ten weeks at sea the colonists arrived in Plymouth, yet many soon perished amid a harsh winter. Several years on, Brewster lost two of his daughters to an outbreak of smallpox, while he himself survived and endured as the elder of Plymouth, dying in 1644 at about 76 years of age.
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