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Show REMEMBER FIRST PILGRIMS TO DIE BOSrrON. Nov 9j The erection at Prbvlnoetpwn and Boston of memorials memo-rials to the five Ma.v flower passengers who died at these plans will be tho lontrtbutlon of the Massachusetts So-eicl So-eicl of Slav flower I lesceinli nts In tin- celebration of the tercentenary of the I'llgrlms" landing A tablet will be. sot In a boulder at ITovlncetown and I another will be placid on the ' Inilldlng in Spring Uni-, iioston. now occupy- ing the site of the b'81 home of M m tChiltoni Wlnslow. who is said to have been the first girl passenger to land at Plymouth. Four passengers died during the December days of l2o while the M.iy-ilowei M.iy-ilowei at anchor 111 ''up,, 'ml harbor, har-bor, now provlnceCBwh Two days before the little chip set bail for the permanent settlement at 1'lymouth. I James Chilton, who had been one of the slK'iors of the famous Mayflower compact In Cape "od harbor, died. A day before the little band had lost Mrs. Dorothy Bradford, first wife of. governor William Bradford, by accidental acci-dental drowning, and the deaths occurred oc-curred alto of Bdward Thomson, a s. rvanl and Jasper More, a child . Mar Chilton, who was the daui;h- ter of James Chilton, sailed on for Plymouth with her mother, and struggled strug-gled through the trying times of the colony's early days She. later mar-' ried John Wlnslow and before 1660 they removed to Boston, where she died In 1679. having survived her husband hus-band by five. years. She was the only Mayflower passenger to become a resident resi-dent of Boston. 1 00 The United States Industries use practically 6.000.000 pounds oi bronxt powder annually. |