TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE

The ‘Mayflower Compact’ was in the middle of a paragraph in theoriginal book (on pages 28 and 29). It has been moved to the end ofthis ebook.

All misspellings in the text, and inconsistent or archaic usage,have been left unchanged.

original cover
(frontispiece)
“Sand dunes beyond the blue salt bay,
Stars twinkling on the rippling sea,
Twin lights of Gurnet far away,
And here sweet peace for thee and me.”
—KATE GANNET WOODS
THE MAYFLOWER SOCIETY HOUSE

The
Mayflower Society House

Being the Story of

THE EDWARD WINSLOW HOUSE · THE MAYFLOWER SOCIETY

· THE PILGRIMS ·

By

WALTER MERRIAM PRATT

Governor-General of the

GENERAL SOCIETY OF MAYFLOWER DESCENDANTS

SECOND EDITION

Privately Printed

UNIVERSITY PRESS

Cambridge, Massachusetts

1950

[Pg 4]

NORTH STREET, PLYMOUTH

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(decorative banner)

THE
MAYFLOWER SOCIETY HOUSE

A NOTABLE accomplishment of the General Society ofMayflower Descendants was the purchase in 1941 of theEdward Winslow House in Plymouth, Massachusetts, ahouse of great beauty and dignity, with history and atmosphere,perfectly located on North Street, one of the five streets laid outby the Pilgrims, overlooking Plymouth Rock and Cole’s Hill, wherelie the bones of many of the Pilgrims.

North Street was laid out before 1633. It w

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