In the _Mayflower_, nineteen wives accompanied their husbands to a waste land and uninhabited, save by the wily and vengeful savage. On the unfloored hut, she who had been nurtured amid the rich carpets and curtains of the mother-land, rocked her new-born babe, and complained not. She, who in the home of her youth had arranged the gorgeous shades of embroidery, or, perchance, had compounded the rich venison pasty, as her share in the housekeeping, now pounded the coarse Indian corn for her children's bread, and bade them ask God's blessing, ere they took their scanty portion. When the snows sifted through the miserable roof-tree upon her little ones, she gathered them closer to her bosom; she taught them the Bible, and the catechism, and the holy hymn, though the war-whoop of the Indian rang through the wild. Amid the untold hardships of colonial life she infused new strength into her husband by her firmness, and solaced his weary hours by her love. She was to him, "----an undergoing spirit, to bear up Against whate'er ensued." The names of these nineteen pioneer-matrons should be engraved in letters of gold on the pillars of American history: The Wives of the Pilgrims. Mrs. Catharine Carver. Mrs. Dorothy Bradford. Mrs. Elizabeth Winslow. Mrs. Mary Brewster. Mrs. Mary Allerton. Mrs. Elizabeth Hopkins. Mrs. ------ Tilley. Mrs. ------ Tilley. Mrs. ------ Ticker. Mrs. ------ Ridgdale. Mrs. Rose Standish. Mrs. ------ Martin. Mrs. ------ Mullins. Mrs. Susanna White. Mrs. ------ Eaton. Mrs. ------ Chilton. Mrs. ------ Fuller. Mrs. Helen Billington. Mrs. Lucretia Brewster. Nor should the names of the daughters of these heroic women be forgotten, who, with their mothers and fathers shared the perils of that winter's voyage, and bore, with their parents, the toils, and hardships, and changes of the infant colony. The Daughters of the Pilgrim Mothers. Elizabeth Carver. Remember Allerton. Mary Allerton. Sarah Allerton. Constance Hopkins. Mary Chilton. Priscilla Mullins.