Capable, courageous and devoted, steadfast in her faith and to her duties though a life-long exile from the home of her birth, through dangers and privations she made possible the domestic comfort and the permanence of the Pilgrims’ homes in the wilderness. On the curb of the pool an inscription reads: “Erected by the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution In memory of the heroic Women of the Mayflower 1620–1920” and on the back of the fountain: “They brought up their families in sturdy virtue and a living faith in God without which nations perish.” On the shaft is given the names of the women who came in the Mayflower. “Mary Norris Allerton Mary Allerton Remember Allerton Eleanor Billington Mary Brewster ---- Chilton Mary Chilton Sarah Eaton Susannah Fuller White Dorothy Bradford Katherine Carver Maid servant of the Carvers, name unknown Humility Cooper ---- Martin ---- Fuller Elizabeth Hopkins Constance Hopkins Damaris Hopkins Alice Mullens Priscilla Mullens Elizabeth Tilley ---- Tilley Desire Minter Ellen Moore Alice Rigdale Rose Standish Ann Tilley ---- Tinker Elizabeth Winslow” [Illustration] The National Monument to the Forefathers “This Monument Where Virtue, Courage, Law and Learning sit Calm Faith above them, grasping Holy Writ; White hand upraised o’er beauteous trusting eyes, And pleading finger pointing to the skies.” --JOHN BOYLE O’REILLY Poem read at the dedication of the Monument to the Forefathers August 1, 1889. “What of her by the western sea, Born and bred as the child of Duty, Sternest of them all? She it is, and she alone Who built on faith as her corner stone; Of all the nations, none but she Knew that the truth shall make us free.” Tercentenary Ode --L. B. R. BRIGGS On the summit of a hill, back of the center of the town, stands the National Monument to the forefathers. Surmounting the pedestal, a figure of Faith, of heroic size, raises her arm with her forefinger pointing to heaven. Beneath her are seated Liberty, Law, Education, and Morality, representative of the Pilgrim ideals; below them are marble bas-reliefs of episodes in Pilgrim history. “The Departure from Delft Haven,” “The Signing of the Compact,” “The Landing of the Pilgrims,” and “The Treaty with Massasoit.”