Table of Contents
Introduction ix
1 The Master's Story: Christopher Jones, Master of the Mayflower 1
2 The Asylum Seeker's Story: William Bradford, a Saint Fleeing Babylon 19
3 The Mother's Story: Susanna White, Mother of the First Baby Born in New England 42
4 The Adventurer's Story: Stephen Hopkins, Survivor of Shipwreck and with Unique New World Experience 62
5 The Outsider's Story: Tisquantum (Squanto), Native American 85
6 The Teenager's Story: Mary Chilton, Reputedly the First to Step onto Plymouth Rock 106
7 The Exiled Little Servant's Story: Mary More, Unwanted Four-Year-Old 127
8 The Man Overboard's Story: John Rowland, Indentured Servant, Negotiator, and Fur Trapper 142
9 The Preacher's Story: William Brewster, Saint, Diplomat, and Preacher 161
10 The Pamphleteer's Story: Edward Winslow, Pilgrim Leader, Colony Agent, and Lobbyist 188
11 The Soldier's Story: Captain Myles Standish, Commander of the Plymouth Colony Militia 207
12 The Lovers' Story: John Alden and Priscilla Mullins 227
13 The Rebels' Story: the Billingtons, the Soules, and Other Challenges to Morality and Order 241
14 The American Mariner's Story: Richard More, New World Sea Captain 256
15 Seeing the New England Forest for the Trees 270
Acknowledgments 273
Endnotes 275
Index 297