Category: Pilgrim Roots
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History is Told by the Victors
While wandering Europe for more than 2 months, one truth echoes over and over – history is told by the victors. The victors are usually those who had the best war machines and/or population to outlast the identified ‘enemy.’ That enemy often was of a different religion, tribe or simply, they occupied the land others…
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This is Us
I didn’t know I was a Pilgrim’s granddaughter. The story I had been raised on was ‘you better depend on yourself, because you can’t depend on anyone else. you are alone…’ That was my mother’s story. The one she repeated a 1000 times in every way. Her father arrived from Ireland two weeks before the…
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The Native People: Who were the Wampanoag?
The Pilgrim stories were much friendlier when I was a child because I didn’t know they were only true in part. To the victors go the story telling and the Native People lost. Immediately as you go wandering the past, one bumps into facts that are raw and discombobulating. To conquer a New World means…
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The Pilgrim’s Granddaughter: Scandal and ‘Own Perticuler Way’, Part 2
Around 1636, Peter Worden, his son Peter (Jr) and illegitimate grandson, John Lewis, arrived in Plymouth Colony in their own ‘Particular’ way. The elder Peter was a gentleman of means at 68 years old. He was born June 9, 1568 at Clayton Manor, Clayton-le-Woods, Lancashire, England. He belonged to the same Preston Merchant Guild in…
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Plymouth Colony: Pilgrims, Strangers and Particulars
The building of a new colony was expensive. As the Puritans did not have the funds to finance this new venture – they had to borrow. The Pilgrims did not want to procure New World landing permits through the Dutch as they considered themselves English. Although religious liberty is was essential for the Puritans, they…
The Pilgrim's Granddaughter 