Stock Scene, showing church attended by Brewster and approximate location of the stocks in Scrooby 7 Birdseye view of Brewster Manor in Scrooby 9 Church at Scrooby 10 Capture of escaping Pilgrims by an English mob 11 Love Scene, showing actual bridge and the Cloth Hall in Leyden, headquarters of the guild of woolen workers, of whom the Pilgrims were a part 15 Destruction of Brewster’s printing shop 18 Cushman before the Merchant Adventurers 20 Embarkation, showing buildings and actual wharf from which the Pilgrims departed 24 Sighting of Provincetown, showing deck construction of Mayflower type of boat 26 Signing the Compact 29 The first building, showing position in relation to Town Brook and Pilgrim Spring 37 The First Street, in its true topographical setting 39 Samoset’s Visit 42 The Treaty with Massasoit, in its actual setting, “an unfinished building” 45 A Good Harvest 51 Thanksgiving Feast 54 The Snakeskin Warning 56 Capt. Standish Slays Pecksuot 58 The First Cattle 61 PREFACE No phase of early American history presents a finer example of faith, fortitude and determination of purpose than the story of that little band of devout souls who landed at Plymouth in the winter of 1620 and to whom we refer as the Pilgrims. In the following limited pages the writer attempts to present something of the conditions obtaining in England prior to the Departure, also something of the struggles, privations, courage and forbearance during the first years of the settlement at Plymouth. In so doing dependence is placed particularly upon the contemporaneous writings of Bradford and Winslow, both members of the Mayflower party. With the vast bibliography relating to the Pilgrim history, together with the requirements of brevity, it is indeed fortunate that we are able to look to those who played such an important part in this historic episode and who were thoughtful enough to leave a record for posterity.