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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 25., Women of the Mayflower and Plymouth Colony. (search)
Women of the Mayflower and Plymouth Colony. by Mary Soule Googins. [Read before the Medford Historical Society, December 19, 1921.] THREE hundred years ago there came to these shores a Band of Pilgrims. We call them Pilgrim Fathers but there were Pilgrim Mothers and Daughters as well. No other colonies up to this time had ever brought women with them. The Pilgrims were bound to succeed, therefore—they brought the women with them. They founded homes, homes in the wilderness, homes by the rolling sea, homes hedged in by dark forests, rough and lonely, but they were dear homes. The precursors of thirty million American homes. These are the gifts of the Pilgrim Mothers and Fathers of three hundred years ago. The women of the Mayflower—let us look at them now, since all who can ever be called by that name are together on the ship. Mrs. Stephen Hopkins wins regard from all. Her own little daughter Damaris and her step-daughter Constantia add to the girlhood on the boat