Show is e 6 s esa 7 1 ai s w j 0 e i I 1 elul I 1 NW r 11 L I 1 y bwy ia ts 1 l R hac JJ a 1 HW 1 9 W 11 ISS T F 1 7 si so by JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN VERY velty good d A bitica knows know or should hould know that it la Is to to the I 1 pilgrim fathers wo we injo are flyable indebted for far ing day one of the most meet enjoyable holidays of the rear fear so at this time ve oe pon pause occa con lineally ilo nally in the mind mad rush of the lieth firth century to give thought to them next owr the tercentenary of their landing will be celebrated with con side raft I 1 I 1 p pomp or my and ceremony many in the united states state england and holland every american schoolboy of co course knows know that the pilgrim fathers boffl fit chally landed ended on plymouth rock koch and that the famous trick Is at PI plymouth auth me mass hot but there are coun comparatively P imer few americana icam who know that the first lending landing of the pilgrims we was at provincetown Province town mass mae and ad are familiar with ith their doings during the mouth month the mayflower lay in the quiet har bor bar inside cape cod I 1 there we was no an no n there them mut ca of course a in 1620 but cape pe cod was there and its name was cape cod in 1602 2602 bartholomew gosnold the ex eor place had bad visited the region slid and had found unit so an plentiful that he had bad just at naturally called the long narrow farmer neck ot of land cape cod ever since lure there has hag been any however its in people have been endl five on an the subject ot of its claims to first honors that why provincetown Province town tawn a now be haa a moro monument ment on high pole hill many macy ym years were required to raise miss the money tor for its erection erect loii the leading landing of the pilgrims elium at ply mouth wm was a slow law job the ile congre comers gation action of john robinson Kobl naon at leyden procured from the london company for virginia a patent of land and made financial arrangements arrange menta for the sailing bailing of ft a part pact of their number the speed well of 60 tons was purchased in hot hoi told land and in july 1620 it sailed to southampton england th there the Havil ot of tons was waiting awaiting it the two ships with about lia passengers put to sea in august the speedwell was ft won boon lepor reported t leaking aw and both hips chips put I 1 in n at D dartmouth r at sea again the speedwell was a sec ond time reported leasing leaking and return and was as made to plymouth it was not act discovered until later that the alarm over ever th speedwell was due to its master a 8 trickery the speedwell was abandoned at plymouth and the size of 1 the party reduced the Mav flower left f PI mouth a alone early la septem her in nine week it sighted the tha shore share ot of cape cap cod being tar far out ot of their comire the pilgrims headed south th but a few he hours to later the course was again changed aced far or the nearest shore share sat ache Y No november rember 11 21 N 8 1620 the ma mayflower rounded cape cod and found harbor this radical hung change of destination introduced ft a some of the ibe hired la laborers boners threatened to break loose we from their engagements on landin log because of the th loss of the author anther try ity delegated in the patent from the virginia company the decies it ot of soum bocie imen form of if civil 1111 government a cement to a unite to 1 the I a well affected bad and to restrain the met insurgent aint was imperative so in the famous faus a Us mayflower N r or provincetown Province cetano town corn com wet once drawn up and signed before the first voyager landed of the 41 to athla I 1 compact which Is 1 often eulogized as the first written ovitte consal if lotion in the world 84 were wem the adults adult I 1 4 comprising the nuel nucleus us of the colony imy and seven morn were servants nants or hired hind work workmen the amen rea remaining calming adult met males were either too ill ili to sign they all soon man hed died 0 or else aim the lt list Ss is am in perfect in this compact tire lies the germ 0 it the declaration Dorla rution 0 of independence it Is as follows in ba the name of god amen we whose he names I 1 e are am underwritten under written the loyal subjects of our dread saver sovereign elge lord king james jame by the grace ot of god of 0 great britain franes france and ireland king defender of 0 the faith balth ete etc hav fine ing undertaken for the glory glora of god and the advancement of 0 the christian faith nad and the honor of our mr king and country a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern part of virginia do by these them presents solemnly and mutually in the presence of god and one another covenant and corn com blue bine arsel ourselves together into a elvic civic body politic for our mor better ordering and pre preservation or emotion and fUth mance of the ends aforesaid and by virtue hereof do mark enact constitute and frame such just and equal net laws ordinances acts and officers from time to time as a shall imal be thought most moat meet and waren convenient tent for the general good of the colony unto which we us promise all our sub and obed obedience leme in witness whereof we have base hereunto sub subscribed bed our names name at cipe C ipe cod the eleventh elee nth of november in the bear mr of the reign of our me sovereign lord king tames brunce of england france and ireland the eighteenth and of bedland the fifty fourth anno anne domini denial 1620 A a or leffe should anden understand tand and ad appreciate the difference between the pilgrims suit and the puritans poulton the PH all ga were few they we were san sepora tats they withdrew withdraw fr from the tab limbed church of england chev mine came to america to or secure freedom of wor ship they cared not how other men man worshiped they did little colonizing r W their influence imil mence upon the nation net was small as compared with the puritans Puri tens the puritans cance came over or in thou thina sands mud beginning with told 1630 they retained their membership in the church of england brought the church with them to ref reform irron tt it they intended 1 to worship as they 1 pleased and to make everyone else worship th the same mine way they fell first upon their knees and then tb upon pa the aborigines they nic alsed widely and ad effectively from fro thene them the american people got get what but la IN known a aa the boults Parl Poul ts tao U conscience alence in the famous book entitled Monr caril ts rotation relation we one will find the following quaint account of the file landing of the pilgrims at P 1 wait wednesday day the sixth of september 1620 the wind coming east north east a line fine small smail gole gale we loosed lomed from mouth having been kindly enter bained and courteously used by divers friends their dwelling and after many difficulties la in Wyet arlus stations at length by gods god a providence upon the ninth of november following by breaks of the day we espied land which we esteemed to be cape god cod and BO it ft proved and the appearance of it much comforted us especially on seeing awing so Z goodly deadly a load land and woodred to the brink bell k of the sea pea it caused us to re joyce jove a together and praise god that he had given it to us na once agalene to see sea land and thus oma we made ad our course Z south south west purposing to go to a river ten leagues to the south of the cape cap but at the wind belog being contrary we put gounde ad agalene game tor for the bay of cape cod and upon the tha 11 we mine came to an anchor in the bay which I 1 la a good harbour and it a pleasant bay circled round except in the entrance which 1 Is beat about to four miles over coer from lead land to land compassed compi ewd about to the very sea S an with okee pines juniper sassafras and an d other th r sweet meet wherein wood end it has a harbour harbo ur wherein one me thousand salle mits of ship may solely safely ride there them we received rele rel ived ourselves with wood and water and refreshed our con people while our shallop wee was fitted to mast coast the bay to search match for a habina tion there was the ax greatest amt store aim of x towle fowls that ever we ww ra th the pilgrims had a hard tune time the first winter at plymouth but in 1021 1621 betrum determined I 1 n to have a period ot of mc recreation ld r rea tion combined with thanksgiving for far their many iner inertia tim the governor thereupon sent seat out not four line hunta men who sho in one day secured enough game fame for the purpose massasoit Massa the indian chief wax was invited to participate in I 1 this ond first thanks gilg he accepted and brought 90 people with him the celebration tested lasted three day til the first thanksgiving day observed by all the file abates late of the union und was recommended om orn mended by proclamation of con ft gress gres after file surrender earned of Belo myris in 1777 and was fixed for far thursday december 18 19 each ach year thereafter until 1784 co congress agress continued to reo 0 ammend md a day for the several states accepting the it date te then than for far a time the b we waa left wholly to the mates the day had its he up aps and it downs president lineal lincoln nationalized tt it by proclamation in ID UM 1868 |