. Towns of New England and old England, Ireland and Scotland . any arti-cles used and worn by him. One of the passengers, Jolin Howland, was washedoverboard, but fortunately grabbed the topsail halyards and was hauled back onboard the ship. Among the crew was a mariner described as being proud andprofane, who was always making fun of the misery of the passengers, and assailingthem for being seasick, declaring that he hoped half of the passengers would dieand that he might cast them overboard and make mery with their this incident a chronicler said, It plased God before they came ha
. Towns of New England and old England, Ireland and Scotland . any arti-cles used and worn by him. One of the passengers, Jolin Howland, was washedoverboard, but fortunately grabbed the topsail halyards and was hauled back onboard the ship. Among the crew was a mariner described as being proud andprofane, who was always making fun of the misery of the passengers, and assailingthem for being seasick, declaring that he hoped half of the passengers would dieand that he might cast them overboard and make mery with their this incident a chronicler said, It plased God before they came halfe seas over,to smite this yong man with a greeveous disease, of which he dyed in a desperatemaner, and so was himselfe ye first that was throwTie overbord. We think of theMayflower as ha\ing made this one voyage to New England, but she was theocean packet of her day, pl>ing continuously between this country and England;she was one of the four vessels that brought Higginson and his company to Salem in PLYMOUTH and SOUTHAMPTON 23 rar^p^saSrTr^r^f^Tr: .^ From an old coloured print Kindness Ian Forbes-Robcrlson, Esq. PLYMOUTH HOE, PLYMOUTH, ENGL.\ND, as it must have looked at the time of the sailing of the Mayflower. 1629, and was also one of Winthrops fleet the following year. Her record after thatcannot be traced, but she hailed, at different times in her career, from London, Yar-mouth and Southampton. Dr. Harris of Manchester, England, claims he has proofthat she was used as a whale ship in the Greenland whale fishery up to the year is a curious coincidence that the compact signed by the forty-one male mem-bers of the company was on November nth, now known as ArmisticeDay. This compact and the names of the signers have been inscribed on amemorial tablet in the Town Hall yard at Provincetown, and on the front of thetablet appear these words:— This Memorial stone is erected by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to commemorate the compact, or Constitution
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