Footnote 18: The Pilgrim Republic, John A. Goodwin, p. 582. Footnote 19: Records of the Colony of New Plymouth. Footnote 20: Mourt’s Relation. Footnote 21: _Ibid._ Footnote 22: A Chronological History of New England, by Thomas Prence. Footnote 23: Bradford’s History of Plymouth Plantation; Bk. II. Footnote 24: The Pilgrim Fathers; W. H. Bartlett, London, 1852. Footnote 25: Bradford’s History of Plymouth Plantation, ch. 4. Footnote 26: Two Centuries of Costume in America; N. Y., 1903. Footnote 27: In Pilgrim Hall, Plymouth. Footnote 28: Two Centuries of Costume in America; Earle. Footnote 29: Bradford’s History of Plymouth Plantation, Bk. 2. Footnote 30: Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England, edited by David Pulsifer, 1861. Footnote 31: Bradford’s History of Plymouth Plantation, Bk. 2. Footnote 32: Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England, edited by David Pulsifer, 1861. Footnote 33: Bradford’s History of Plymouth Plantation, Bk. 2. Footnote 34: Editorial rooms at 53 Mt. Vernon Street, Boston. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CHAPTER III MATRONS AND MAIDENS WHO CAME IN THE MAYFLOWER It has been said, with some justice, that the Pilgrims were not remarkable men, that they lacked genius or distinctive personalities. The same statement may be made about the women. They did possess, as men and women, fine qualities for the work which they were destined to accomplish;—remarkable energy, faith, purpose, courage and patience. These traits were prominent in the leaders, Carver and Bradford. Standish and Winslow, Brewster and Dr. Fuller. As assistants to the men in the civic life of the colony, there were a few women who influenced the domestic and social affairs of their own and later generations. From chance records, wills, inventories and traditions their individual traits must be discerned, for there is scarcely any sequential, historic record. Death claimed some of these brave-hearted women before the life at Plymouth really began. Dorothy May Bradford, the daughter of Deacon May of the Leyden church, came from Wisbeach, Cambridge; she was married to William Bradford when she was about sixteen years old and was only twenty when she was drowned at Cape Cod. Her only child, a son, John, was left with her father and mother in Holland and there was long a tradition that she mourned grievously at the separation. This son came later to Plymouth, about 1627, and lived in Marshfield and Norwich, Connecticut.