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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 25., Women of the Mayflower and Plymouth Colony. (search)
, 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 Standish passed to a land of sunshine and flowers. Others soon followed, Ann Tilly, Mrs. Martin, little Ellen More and Mary Chilton's mother. Another month, and Mary Allerton, John Tilly's wife, Sarah Eaton and Mrs. Edward Fuller were numbered with them, and soon Elizabeth Winslow and Katharine Carver slipped away. Their monument is the hill by the seashore on which their graves were made, and their remembrance shall last as long as Mayflowers blossom. It is indeed remarkable that even twelve women and children remained. Humility Cooper and Elizabeth Tilly, Priscilla Mullins and Mary Chilton were indeed truly alone. On the five women the care and responsibility fell heaviest, though the girls and children had their share in the division of labor. Each served when there was nur