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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 30., A New ship, a New colony, and a New church. (search)
he work called others thither also. It was a none too popular calling. As we think of it, remember the colonists were free people of colour, going back to African soil to establish homes, a colony, eventually a nation, on this earth. Remember how Lydia Maria Francis' appeal for those Americans called Africans ostracized her here around Boston. Remember the scenes about the court house and down State street. Compare, if you will, the Mayflower of 1620 and its pilgrim colony, and try and picture the crew of the Vine with those white men, Sessions, Holton, and printer Force, with thirty-six dusky colonists, of whom was the regularly organized church, with the generous Boston outfit stowed beneath the one deck of the new and seaworthy brig Vine. Think of their thirty-four-day voyage across the Atlantic, which a year and a century later was to be crossed by air line in thirty-four hours. You may find some similarities, and yet something more, in this story of a hundred years agone.