Identifier: historyofpilgrim01sawy (find matches)
Title: History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, their ancestry and descendants; basis of Americanization
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Sawyer, Joseph Dillaway, b. 1849 Griffis, William Elliot, 1843-1928
Subjects: Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony) Puritans Massachusetts -- History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Publisher: New York, Century History Co
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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The stately figure at the right, presumably governor Sir Thomas Gates, embodies the dignity and virtue of Anglo-Saxon culture.
A gracious Pocahontas is obliged to recount the behavior of Argall, at the left.
The artist casts [Samuel] Argall as a foil against more virtuous representatives of two great civilizations.

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SEAL OF VIRGINIA. James to say: Choose the Devil, if you will, as treasurerof the London Company, but not Sir Edwyn Sandys.Nevertheless, the arrogant Englishmen spurned kingly inter-ference and made Sir Edwyn coin-disburser for the NewWorld Land Company. John Robinson evidently owned a copy of Sandys bookpublished in 1605, one of those snatched from the flamesand now in Pilgrim Hall, Plymouth. Its ownership appearsto be guaranteed by the Leyden pastors oddly dot-deco-rated autograph, penned twice on its outer page.* Thediscovery of the Leyden document by Dr. Eekhof, in 1920,cast doubts on the genuineness of this reputed autograph.Historians for two hundred and fifty years had shownsignatures accepted as those of John Robinson and Myles * Today proved a spurious signature. THE SEPARATISTS IN HOLLAND 221
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222 HISTORY OF THE PILGRIMS AND PURITANS Standish. These, in the light of recent discoveries, prove tobe unauthentic. Recorded legal instruments w^ith w^itnesses,as shown herein, plainly reveal a marked difference betweenthe real and spurious signatures. Ll— ■(-.• -^ f ^.V/•I,^.,i;:«y,I.v./^.■;.•■ •...n 4. ? ,/i Tu.i (/../^i2c-ti .•- J-V; ■ < . t^ 3-.it^. <■</ i,,!\-t :^-;V^ «-y .• ■^/.if j.,/fr4t

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