The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621. Volume 1

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Azel Ames. The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621. Volume 1

INTRODUCTORY

CHAPTER I. THE NAME—"MAY-FLOWER"

CHAPTER II. THE MAY-FLOWER'S CONSORT THE SPEEDWELL

THE SPEEDWELL'S LOG

THE END OF THE VOYAGE AND OF THE LOG OF THE MAY-FLOWER'S CONSORT

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O civilized humanity, world-wide, and especially to the descendants of the Pilgrims who, in 1620, laid on New England shores the foundations of that civil and religious freedom upon which has been built a refuge for the oppressed of every land, the story of the Pilgrim "Exodus" has an ever-increasing value and zest. The little we know of the inception, development, and vicissitudes of their bold scheme of colonization in the American wilderness only serves to sharpen the appetite for more.

Every detail and circumstance which relates to their preparations; to the ships which carried them; to the personnel of the Merchant Adventurers associated with them, and to that of the colonists themselves; to what befell them; to their final embarkation on their lone ship,—the immortal MAY-FLOWER; and to the voyage itself and to its issues, is vested to-day with, a supreme interest, and over them all rests a glamour peculiarly their own.

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(1) The demonstration of the fact that the witnesses to the nuncupative will of William Mullens were two of the MAY-FLOWER'S crew (one being possibly the ship's surgeon), thus furnishing the names of two more of the ship's company, and the only names—except those of her chief officers—ever ascertained.

(m) The indication of the strong probability that the entire company of the Merchant Adventurers signed, on the one part, the charter-party of the MAY-FLOWER.

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