History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, their ancestry and descendants; basis of Americanization . or Holland, a land3*v?^* where thought was free. The threesouthern Mayflowers, the God-speed, the Constant and the Discov-ery, sailed down the Thames, amidstthe waving of banners and plauditsof their fellows, who lined the banksof that historic stream. In contrast,the Pilgrims stole away at night, thegreat bulk of the company being cap-tured in the gray of the morning, atLater came their scattering andcrossing of the North Sea in frail open boats to Holland. Near the front line of Americas importan
History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, their ancestry and descendants; basis of Americanization . or Holland, a land3*v?^* where thought was free. The threesouthern Mayflowers, the God-speed, the Constant and the Discov-ery, sailed down the Thames, amidstthe waving of banners and plauditsof their fellows, who lined the banksof that historic stream. In contrast,the Pilgrims stole away at night, thegreat bulk of the company being cap-tured in the gray of the morning, atLater came their scattering andcrossing of the North Sea in frail open boats to Holland. Near the front line of Americas important happeningsis the small stone tablet erected on Cape Henry. The bitof soil on which it rests is thus memorialized as having feltthe tread of the first Spaniard, and years later of the firstEnglishman to roam over South Virginia. These Englishpioneers of both North and South Virginia in the time ofKing James did what Elizabethan settlers utterly failed toaccomplish. They kept their grip on the new land, form-ing nuclei of settlements which in time extended from CapeFear to Passamaquoddy JAMESTOWNS WATER FRONT. Mollie Browns Cove. THE SEPARATISTS IN HOLLAND 213
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