Views from Plymouth rock; a sketch of the early history of the Plymouth colony

Preface

This sketch of Plymouth Colony is confined, as the title-page states, to its early history ; yet it embraces the principal facts in the career of the Mayflower Pilgrims. It is mainly an attempt to present in a popular form, for the gratification and instruction of young people, the narratives of Bradford and Winslow, of late for the first time published in their unmutilated form. 'No liberty has been taken with the facts to make a lively story n,t the expense of the truth of history.

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We take pleasure in acknowledging onr indebtedness to articles in "The Sabbath at Home," on " The Footprints of the Pilgnms," written by 'Rev. Dr. H. M. Dexter, of Boston.

We desire that this unambitious effort may stimulate the youth of our country to study and emulate the integrity and genuine piety of the founders of our Republic.