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But the people of Salem in 1692 were not quite the dedicated folk that arrived on the Mayflower.
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The Mayflower = the ship in which the Pilgrims sailed from England to Massachusetts in 1620
- …but Uncle Silas he had a noble brass warming-pan which he thought considerable of, because it belonged to one of his ancesters with a long wooden handle that come over from England with William the Conqueror in the Mayflower or one of them early ships and was hid away up garret with a lot of other old pots and things that was valuable, not on account of being any account, because they warn't, but on account of them being relicts, (source)
- I am descended from John Adams on my grandmother's side (her maiden name was Bates, and her family came to America on the Mayflower); yet, in our town, it was my grandfather's name that had the clout, and my grandmother wielded her married name with such a sure sense of self-possession that she might as well have been a Wheelwright and an Adams and a Bates.† (source)
- The history of surfing is something surf nuts pride themselves on knowing: it's as important as, say, the Mayflower docking on Plymouth Rock.† (source)
- The oldest ones had been here before George Washington was horn, before the Mayflower sailed, when the only people here were Native Americans quietly hunting and fishing among the trees.† (source)
- What concerned her was not my premature demise-like me, she was far too self-centered to think of someone else at a time like that-nor even the fact that the death of my DNA would mark the end of a line of aristocrats which stretched back to the Mayflower;, no, what bothered Mother was that the family was going to die out in debt.† (source)
- Annie's family line went back to the Mayflower, her ancestors having settled this country, and their ancestors having owned some vast swath of England.† (source)
- I was pretty sure the Pilgrims hadn't brought it over on the Mayflower.† (source)
- While they were on the Mayflower, they created the Mayflower Compact, which was an agreement that guaranteed everyone would cooperate and act in a way that would be beneficial to the colony.† (source)
- I always tell Turtle she's as good as the ones that came over on the Mayflower," I told Estevan.† (source)
- The Member Registries Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Asher had spent years compiling, the family trees going back to the Mayflower and the Revolution, were destroyed.† (source)
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- When she arrived at the Mayflower, it was clear that this day would possess neither virtue.† (source)
- The bloodlines from the Mayflower hadn't trickled down to this zip code.† (source)
- The Mayflower.† (source)
- In parts of southeastern England, "r"-less pronunciation had become popular shortly before immigration to British North America effectively began with the arrival of the Mayflower in 1620.† (source)
- I lectured her all the way to Washington about our colonial beginnings, the Puritan tradition, the Mayflower Compact, and the ancient origins of slavery.† (source)
- After I consult with Cactus, I'll get a room at the Mayflower hotel," answered Jason Bourne.† (source)
- As you know, but your watchers might not, my family came here on the Mayflower"—and here she rolled her eyes—"and though we have some high-water marks in our family history, there's so much I don't know."† (source)
- He bared his teeth, which looked like they hadn't been flossed since zombies inspired the Mayflower Compact.† (source)
- It was scheduled for Valentine's Day, so bosses, mostly white men, would have an added excuse to take their employees, often black women, to a luncheon for the forum at the Mayflower Hotel.† (source)
- Do you remember those three frequent fliers from the Mayflower's registry who flew into Philadelphia eight months ago and just happened to be at the hotel at the same time eight months later?† (source)
- I'm afraid we inspired the Mayflower Compact, started all that business about rights and democracy in America, blah, blah, blah."† (source)
- In those computer sheets Conklin had us work up on the Mayflower hotel's registers, there was a woman-one of three people he tied to Medusa-who had been in Marrakesh.† (source)
- Sitting forward, he had analyzed them for nearly four hours, forgetting time, forgetting that his "control" was to have reached him by then, concerned only with a link to the Jackal at the Mayflower hotel.† (source)
- They want to make sure they're Daughters of the American Revolution and of the Mayflower— Well, I guess that don't do any harm, either.† (source)
- Leaven, which some deem the soul of bread, the spiritus which fills its cellular tissue, which is religiously preserved like the vestal fire—some precious bottleful, I suppose, first brought over in the Mayflower, did the business for America, and its influence is still rising, swelling, spreading, in cerealian billows over the land—this seed I regularly and faithfully procured from the village, till at length one morning I forgot the rules, and scalded my yeast; by which accident I…† (source)
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