Show 0 N ai af alro COIN W 4 S zy y f Z I 1 01 7 erta 11 ey ft 01 I 1 or Z Z 00 by JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN ALL with anith its garne garnered reil har hancs ests ts reminds us busot of TI thanksgiving duy day bolh both the least feast that lifis become a national fixture and the thanks that should form no small email part of the observance of the hollday holiday and thanksgiving reminds us of tile the Vil pilgrims grinis of the mayflower and the ter centenary observances that have lapped oer into 1921 to listen to the ilie proud descendants of tile the Ill pilgrims grims and to see the relics a and ad furniture that came over in the mayflower lay flower Is to smile As a matter of fact records and relics of tile ill grinis are much like angels visits for instance iastan ce governor william brad fords history of the allmoth Ill Ili moth plantation and Mour ts relation supposed to have been written by bradford and edward win winslow jow to friends in england Ens land contain tile the only accounts of the flip May mayflowers flowers voyage it was not until ika IS is that americans dis covered that complete of governor bradfordt Brad fords history was reposing in a london library it was published in 1856 for tile lie first time how it came back to massachusetts Is told later again there Is a difference of opinion us its to tile the identity of the mayflowers May Mily flowers captain master jones some historians say that he was ofie one christopher jones and a trustworthy orthy man others hold that lie he was capt thomas tones jones a sort of retired pirate there Is no authentic record of the accommodations of the mayflower and no exact description of the vessel some believe she was us at one time a slaver to in fact the ibe historians get the first authoritative evidence that the name of the essel of the pilgrims was SI aydoner from the allotment of londs lands tin an official document drawn dran up p at plymouth in march it Is thought that the group of autographs luto graphs at the upper left includes all the known signatures of those who nho came in the mayflower except that of dorothy may aday who was then tile the wife of william bradford resolved white was then but a child and peregrine white was uns not born until the mayflower had reached cape cod harbor the portrait of governor edward ednard chislow Is the only authentic likeness of any of the mayflower pilgrims riols it BBS ass pointed painted in england in 1651 when winslow was 56 it has been several everal times engraved the original once the property of isaac winslow Is now deposited lu in the gallery of the pilgrim society at plymouth contrary to the popular belief the actual relics of the mayflower pilgrims are few it Is believed that the celebrations of the tercentenary in america england and holland have brought to light some new records and relics the th authenticity of which will stand th alie closest investigation AV ap undoubted autograph of john robinson pastor of the pilgrims in feyden Is one of the relics that has been unearthed it was found in leyden by dr eekhout among the notarial papers tn in the cites archives john robinson as every american should know was the pastor of tile hith group of religious radicals who first gathered at scrooby england abou 1606 and later become became known to bl history story as the pilgrims from they went to amsterdam and then to leyden when they decided to g to america the question was vas how many would go and who it was decided that robinson should lead them if the majority voted to go it if the majority voted not to go willaim brewster IMIS to lo lead these who went ent the majority voted not to go son never saw the new world lie ile died march firch 1 1623 and was burled buried in le leiden leden iden hitherto no wholly holly authenticated sig of john robinson has been known the two reproduced have been C av LIS A a 45 0 yat y e 49 41 4 14 afa i r 74 L jan jyom Jy jM s ya wj y t rf 1 I W A 1 l A S v ewt fy az 40 6 0 E A halfheartedly half heartedly accepted by historians the upper signa signature tuie Is given by dr 11 M dexter in congregationalism as seen in its literature 1880 as from a book in the british museum believed by the experts of that institution to have belonged to him this book Is a pamphlet a to the english recusants by john Jolin dove D D printed in 1002 it Is presumably by the same hand as the lower signature which Is upon the title page of sir edwin sandys Rel relation atlon of if the state of religion london 1005 which belonged belong pd to the late charles Cli arles deane deanc of cambridge it was supposed that john robinson once owned the treatise of the new authentic sIgna signature tute the london graphic says tile the eyden deed signed by john robinson of whose autograph dr eekhof Is assured refers to a debt acknowledged by robinson thomas Bre brewer and william jepson the latter being also well L known members of the pilgrim community brewer possessed money and position and jointly with another set up a printing press in leyden jepson Is described as a carpenter and merchant they covenanted to pay seven hundred bundred and forty four guilders builders guil ders by a certain date A later entry confirms the fact that the debt was discharged before the period mentioned in the second document dated a week before the pilgrim fathers left holland in the speedwell william bradford authorized two of his friends who remal remained ned behind to collect one hundred carolus guilders builders guil ders which were owing to him as a mortgage by a leyden citizen dr eekhoff discovery also disclosed the will of john robinsons widow this was drawn up eighteen yen years rs after the pilgrim fathers pastor had passed aminy an ay she remained ilin ined in the city and at the time of tier her death had four children to whom slie site devised her belongings to eschold each esc hond ond all she bhe bestowed bes toed something of value rier her son isaac had bad gone out to new england with the pilgrims 11 had all n and settled there to his ills wife tits his mother bequeathed the lung icing cloak and ikirt of black cloth of to the son who was a doctor in england was given his big fathers testament dr of leiden and dr rendel harris tarras tarr ts rylands library manchester ch Lster have sign also collaborated in other researches they have issued a facsimile edition of those portions of 0 1 amt uc C 0 the official betrothal book ut leyden which relate to the pilgrim fathers these are of 0 real historic value because they supply legal particulars respecting spec ting the betrothals and marriages marriage fl first there Is the date of the betrothal and later of the marriage itself and the names of the officiating magistrates A document relating to william bradford was also found by the leyden professor and these three created a sensation among those win who had gathered at leyden this sumar to pay their tributes to the founders lo in the boston transcript george n H sargent presents translations of these document documents ladeby made by A J F van laer state archivist of new york and out aul dhority on dutch notarial documents the tusk task of translation was not easy as it 13 sold said the document which bears the robinson n signature la Is an ment of indebtedness given by brewer robler robinson on and jepson in behalf of seigneur jehan de lalaina for the sum of seven hundred n and nd forty four guil ders thirteen stivers and three pence on account of several jears ears I 1 accumulated interest the last due on may day 1021 1621 the three subscribers promise to pay this on slay may day 1621 without further delay this agren agreement keni being drawn up by the notary and signed on january 2 1021 tit at his office on the breestraat Bree straat in the presence of the clerk jan van Teth rode and willem Cornell sz ket a farm or beryman bu ryman of the manor of the late laie george frisbie hoar floor united states senator from massachusetts chu and a descendant of roger aberman Sherm nn a signer of the declaration of independence tells in his autobiography bin graphy of seventy years 1903 how lie he recovered the history by william bradford the second governor containing the mayflower compact just how it got to england nobody knows but for more than a n century it had reposed in the library of the bishop of london at fulham palace senator senater hoar armed himself with letters of introduction in 1896 and made a respectful demand on dr temple then bishop of london dr temple agreed that the re cloua manuscript ought to be restored to american custody but suggested that the request should be referred to tile the archbishop of canterbury and queen victoria so senator hoar returned to america and inspired tle me drafting of a formal request for the return of tile the manuscript in the name of the onti antiquarian and historical societies dr temple had in the lie meantime become archbishop of ca canterbury riter bury and gae ee his assistance with the result the hie precious manuscript now reposes in tile the library of the state house of massachusetts |