Show AN ara V pt is oy hi F ELMO scott WATSON find as our thoughts turn to tho the pilgrim fathers none to la more inore worthy of remembrance b r ance than capt myles hyles standish for lib he wits tile first military commander coin mander of our country and the greatest example of protection and prepared ices that ever existed the compact he and his associates signed on hoard board tile the Alay flower was file foundation of our form ot of government the law abiding god clod fearing pilgrims could tot thuve existed without the strong arm of capt myles asb such was the trib tribute ute paid lo 10 0 o him recently by major at arick captein of the ancient and 11 honorable artillery of hoston bosto n la n dedicating a simple boulder 1 in I n duxbury Dux vu x bury hury blues which marks the site of aleles stad diehs home associated with him film in dedicating the memorial and decorah lug tab the grave of tile the Ill pilgrim grim nearby wore were myles standish eighth lineal descendant of the colonial lend lead er winthrop a direct de acen ascendant dant of captain winslow of tile pilgrims and more thau a IlurA hundred dred 7 ra of tile the artillery company the and honorable artillery company of wits was an offspring of tile the honorable artillery arti alery company Comp lilly of i london brgant organized zed tn in england in 1037 it was founded in new england la in 1038 by robert kentne Heny tio who I 1 ho had bad previously been a member of the london coni company pany the only time I 1 tn n tin ila history in which it engaged in war ks kg a unit was lu 1013 1015 when it joined myles standish blandish and tits his company in I 1 campaign against the Ind indians laus and today U ll 11 la is tho the only link which exists between tile the present united states army and the first colonial company which defended this country from the first indian it la Is probable that most Americ americana tinn when they the of capt beylea stan sann is alta at all 0 think of him in ia terms terba of Long lAng fellows famous poem which Is il unfortunate for as aa a recent writer has said laid the poet longfellow has set nn an example ot 01 inaccuracy to in dealing with ancestors which line has been widely followed among those inaccuracies cur cu anre first of till the ep spelling elling of his nante which was Sl myles and not miles allies I 1 as aa longfellow hod bad it and calling him a puritan loader 11 there was a difference between the sep ar allsto who called themselves IIII 1111 all I III trims and who founded tile the colony tit nt plymouth tl in n 1020 and tile the puritans who founded the tiny day iol colony tn 1030 1010 more afore than that start dish was wag not a member of the sepa faith but lie he was waa a dissenter fisseni e r crom the dissenters dIssen tere nut but tile the principal mistaken idea about the cap captain which the poet has haa given us ua Is in ills his having standish sli use young jolin john alden BS MA liln mouthpiece in wooing priscilla bl mulling there is la not a sc scintilla lutilla of evidence that tile the fearless captain who aho was vas small of statute stature and redheaded but every inch a soldier had tiny any desire to win the affections of priscilla mullins says bay the writer previously quoted it seems beems too bat bad that so BO brave anti unselfish unsold sli a man filp ca an standish was should now be pi pit eded k before hla his descendants ns as a rejected baltor ue lie deserves a better eaic there seems to bo be considerable mys mya tory about tile the ancestry religion and early life of myles miles standish sh it to Is be ildved that he ha was born about crisi the he scion ot of tho thil standish family of duxbury hall in lancashire I england the name Is an ancient one atud describing the meeting between king 11 II and the rebel wat tyler tiler at smith icid cold la in issa tells how the latter wai was killed by it a squer of the called john who was waa knighted for this act tills this fur bis liefl sonic some basis for tile words p put ut to la miles Stand islia mouth hy lori longfellow 9 bellaw that one of my ances tore ron ran tits his sword through the heart at wat tyler I 1 5 f 2 T 7 i q U NW 4 fofi A M I 1 cwi iwi W g h v ati ft i w x j w ita W lre i s Standish tr glave ou evl N 1 JR g r I 1 0 M 5 X stand istl monument on ea hy iii hill the association of 0 the name of duxbury WIN that of standish la Is based upon authenticated coples of deeds of the fourteenth century which show allow that tie de Dokes dukesbury bury rondo made over his lancashire I estates to his lawyer Stand standish sh loh who took up op the mortgages and thereby dispossessed the Dotes bury or duxbury family it la Is significant that one ot of the inter anter pit grim settle settlements merits which bf berame fraina the homo hamo or myles was named Dils didsbury burY within tile he last year tile the stile of dunbury hall near chorley Cli orley recoiled the fac that in 1810 1840 18 10 descendants of styles mylei standish sh in this country subscribed a large inage amount of money and vent sent an expert to braida the chilin of their ancestor to this estinto of which it ims been asserted lie ho was na unjustly deprived when lie emigrated from begland to america in ID ills his youth styles Stand tal lil entered the english aminy and served in the wars warn on oil the continent thus furnishing the authority for longfellow fellows having him tell about tile sword of Damus ewi I 1 fought with tn in flanders and the breastplate which pace once sayed ills life froin t a bullet fired point blunk at my heart liy by a spanish just how standish cie cainie to the he ill grime Is not klomm lie ile was vaa serving tn in the netherlands when the separatists went there from ung land tind ono one historian asserts abut that the adventurers who the 1111 grint emigration to Ani america erlen expecting them to settle in the region of virginia sent cent standish us their sal servant to defend them end and teach them to defend them selvis at any rate joined the at leyden find and suited with them from plymouth england lit in the mayflower ou on september 10 1820 1020 styles mil standish sh was one of the slaw ora era of the blay mayflower flower compact on to no vember 11 IWO for the government Boero of the tha proposed colony but his mili tary career did not begin until novem her ber 21 when ft hen the flower was an chorded in cape cod bay and the cup cap tain with 13 men went ashore when they had mar marched clied about the space bt bf it a nile mile by the sea side aide they espied 5 or 0 persons with a dogs dogg coming to wards warda them who were salvages hui but the indians rune rone up into the woods and that night standish arid and his fits me camped on tile shore aa A set out t theli beir sentinels on november 25 sixteen armed men everyone ever one his Alu musket sword and Co Cor clet under tho the ca corn M mand of captaine Capt alne aleles stand were sent ashor e for a second exploration ration 11 T aliey I 1 aey m marched ar cited through what to Is now provincetown Province town where they saw caw several Ind indiana lims followed their tracks about ten tea miles and spent the night in the hie woods three more moie expeditions were sent out later inter and on tie the thard near they were surprised by the indians upon whom standish fired but the skirmish was slight in february 1021 1621 standish was olli dully chilly made military captain during that thai first terrible winter when dIxe itse willed out half oi 0 tile the colony among them tits his wife rose hose Stant ligh who tied died on 3 january andary 21 it was to tile the ministrations of this flery little nian man and the gentle elder brewster that ninny many of the survivors owed their 11 lives ea but lie he was to prove ills worth to the colony in many other ways and to justify the statement that the ill grims could not have existed without tile the strong arm area of cara capt styles standish in 1 the planting of a wm new settle ment at Wey weymouth angered angere me has indians indiana who formed a plot to destroy not only these englishmen bu aut the members of the plymouth ci cd ony an a well the plot wits was betrayed by and sti with a force of only eight men marcheil to the relief vt of tile settlement ml as wiy standish enticed the bastile chiefs Peck suot and and a half brother of the latter into a roon where the indiana were itulid utter after a desperate tight light markini the first mh eddIng of indian blood bloo dby by the A general battle with the Ind indians lims followed but standish sli andi tits men boated the hie savages the of his kittle spread terror among the and mi as a warning mr fuir ther the head bead of wits was rat cut olf off and exposed on a pole ta lai plymouth in tw Stand led nn an i ful against the french lial had driven a of plymouth men away from penobscot maine in addition to t iwens the military leader of f every everi exploit of importance in tile the c counsel was often eulid in civil affairs affa for many yen yeara rs lio lie wits was treasurer sumar of the colony nad aad in 1023 1102 25 when the colony wap in trouble with wills its partners the Sl merchant erchant ad en tunis standish sh was sent to 1 alig ilg hnud jo io seek relief hearing bearing a letter lette from governor Go bradford Ur adford to the cowl ell of 0 na nw N w urging their inter inte tent foill in n behalf of the pilgrims on in recount nt count of the plague in london however standish could accomplish with both ing r after the tenth death of tits his wife ilose the captain married tier lier younger sister barbara Bur bura and to them were born four sens alexander silas SIl cs jollas and charle and a daughter lorn lora in 1032 standish sh mail made hl tits home at duxbury on captains hill there ho he lied died on october 11 egx today a tall monument stands on hill liall on toll toil of it la Is the statue of a military tary figure looking eastward its rig right ht hand holding the charter of the colony la 13 extended toward plymouth its left rests upon a sheathed sword it Is a fitting me memorial mortal to capt bayles standish sh the first military commander of our auntry country ou and the protector and savior ol of the he pilgrim fathers |