From the oration delivered at Plymouth December 22, 1820, in commemoration of the first settlement of New England. [Illustration] _CONTENTS_ PAGE FOREWORD i THE PILGRIMS OF THE MAYFLOWER 9 List of Mayflower Passengers 10 THE COMPACT 13 Signers of the Compact 14 FROM PLYMOUTH, ENGLAND TO PLYMOUTH, MASSACHUSETTS 15 Departure and Landfalls Inscriptions at: Southampton 15 Provincetown 15 Exploration 16 Plymouth Rock 16 The Monument over Plymouth Rock 17 COLES HILL. The First Burying Ground 18 List of Those Who Died in the First Winter 19 Statue of Massasoit 20 Memorial Seats 20 THE FIRST STREET (Leyden Street) 21 Common House 22 TOWN BROOK--THE BREWSTER GARDENS 24 BURIAL HILL 26 The Fort 26 The Guns 27 The Pilgrim Progress 28 The Graves 29 THE MEMORIAL TO THE PILGRIM WOMEN 33 List of Women and Girls Who Came in the Mayflower THE NATIONAL MONUMENT TO THE FOREFATHERS 34 THE FIRST CHURCH IN PLYMOUTH 36 The Covenant 36 The Elders 37 The Congregation--from Dr. Charles W. Eliot’s inscription on the Standish Monument in Duxbury 37 The Meetinghouses 38 THE COLONY AND TOWN RECORDS (1620–1691) The Pilgrim Citizen--from “The Pilgrim Spirit” by George P. Baker 40