Word: pilgrims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pilgrim Press, 750 pages...
...body. Those who hoped for such independence within the Church of England were "non-separating Congregational-ists," represented in New England by the Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Those who felt reform could only be achieved outside the established church were Separatists, and from their number came the Pilgrim "saints" of the Plymouth Company...
...Pilgrims do not deserve the sentimental image created for them by Longfellow and his contemporaries in the 19th century, when the name Pilgrim itself finally began to catch on.* They had to be, and were, considerably tougher to surmount the brutal odds threatening their survival-one aspect of the myth that has not been exaggerated. During the first winter, cold, disease and famine cut their number in half-13 out of the 18 wives who came on the Mayflower died. More might have perished had not an early landing party stolen Indian corn from buried caches-a find they considered...
...Pilgrim congregational church structure-like that of the Massachusetts Bay Puritans-was democratic, a tradition carried into New England's history. Moreover, the Plymouth settlers preserved not only the fundamental rights of Englishmen-among them, trial by jury and due process-but gave legal protection to Indians. They did not hesitate to execute two fellow Pilgrims for killing an Indian...
...thing that the original Pilgrim congregation did not preserve intact was its orthodox Separatist faith. At the beginning of the 19th century, the congregation of the First Church of Plymouth split over belief in the Trinity, and took a vote. The losers would leave the congregation. The Unitarians won the election, but lost their church to fire a century later. The pastor of the trinitarian Church of the Pilgrimage across the street could not resist the opportunity to scoff a bit. "We kept the faith," said a sign he hung outside his church. "They kept the furniture...