Letter from Rev. Mr. Robinson.--Defense of Captain Standish.-- New Policy Introduced.--Great Destitution.--Day of Fasting and Prayer.--Answer to Prayer.--The First Thanksgiving.-- The Colony at Weymouth.--Worthless Character of the Colonists.--Neat Cattle from England.--Captain Standish Sent to England.--Captain Wollaston and His Colony.-- Heroism of Captain Standish.--Morton Vanquished.-- Difficulty at Cape Ann.--Increasing Emigration.--The Division of Property. 232 CHAPTER XII. The Virginia Emigrants.--Humanity and Enterprise of the Governor.--Envoy Sent to England.--Trading-Posts on the Kennebec and Penobscot Rivers.--Capture by the French.-- The Massachusetts Colony.--Its Numbers and Distinguished Characters.--Trade with the Indians.--Wampum the New Currency.--Trading-Post at Sandwich.--Sir Christopher Gardener.--Captain Standish Moves to Duxbury.--Lament of Governor Bradford. 257 CHAPTER XIII. Removal to Duxbury.--Intercourse with the Dutch.--Trading-Posts on the Connecticut.--Legend of the Courtship of Miles Standish.--Personal Appearance of the Captain.--Proposition to John Alden.--His Anguish and Fidelity.--Interview with Priscilla.--The Indian Alarm.--Departure of Captain Standish.--Report of his Death.--The Wedding. 281 CHAPTER XIV. Menace of the Narragansets.--Roger Williams.--Difficulty on the Kennebec.--Bradford’s Narrative.--Captain Standish as Mediator.--The French on the Penobscot.--Endeavors to Regain the Lost Port.--Settlements on the Connecticut River.--Mortality Among the Indians.--Hostility of the Pequots.--Efforts to Avert War.--The Pequot Forts.--Death of Elder Brewster.--His Character. 301 CHAPTER XV. Friendship Between Captain Standish and Mr. Brewster.--Character of Mr. Brewster.--His Death and Burial.--Mode of Worship.-- Captain’s Hill.--Difficulty with the Narragansets.-- Firmness and Conciliation.--Terms of Peace.--Plans for Removal from Plymouth.--Captain Standish’s Home in Duxbury.--Present Aspect of the Region. 332 CHAPTER XVI. The Will of Captain Standish.--His Second Wife.--Captain’s Hill.--The Monument.--Letters from President Grant and General Hooker.--Oration by General Horace Binney Sargent.-- Sketch of his Life.--Other Speakers.--Laying the Corner Stone.--Description of the Shaft. 358 [Illustration] CHAPTER I. _The Pilgrims in Holland._