Nick Bunker
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“Bradford tells us about another lusty youth, Howland's ungodly double, a 'proud ... & profane' seaman who jeered and cursed the seasick passengers, saying that he expected to dump half of them over the side before journey's end. It pleased God to smite the young man with disease, and he was tossed overboard himself.”
― Mayflower Pilgrims
― Mayflower Pilgrims
“Dartmouth’s father died in 1732, leaving a widow, Elizabeth Legge, Lady Lewisham. Then Lord North’s father, Lord Guilford, became a widower when his first wife (North’s mother) died in 1734. Two years after that, Guilford became Lord Dartmouth’s stepfather, when he married Lady Lewisham. The marriage ended with her death in 1745.”
― An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America
― An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America
“As British governments do, Kings James appointed a committe to investigate. It reported that things were very bad, and offered many explanations. It said something must be done, and then the king did nothing.”
― Mayflower Pilgrims
― Mayflower Pilgrims
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