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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 25., Women of the Mayflower and Plymouth Colony. (search)
rom crowding forward as they near the shore. An instant of excitement! The sailors make ready to fasten the boat! It touches the rock! The woman who stood foremost on the way over has sprung from the boat, catching at the hand of the nearest man to steady her on the slippery rock. The keen wind and spray have dashed color to her cheeks, the brilliancy of the sun on the snow is reflected in her eyes. A flashing triumph at being th efirst!—it is Mary Chilton! I like to think of her as Dr. Gordon expressed it, a real sport, not perhaps like the sports of today, but a strong humorous girl, full of real happiness. In after years she came to Boston to live and was a member of the Old South Church. In her will she left the Church five English pounds. (It was the widow's mite, as she was then Widow Winslow). In three hundred years that has amounted to $500,000. No wonder Old South is the richest church in Boston! In less than a week after the first women went ashore, Rose Standis