Pilgrim Fathers

A pub has stood on the site since time immemorial, and certainly, when the Pilgrim Fathers set sail in their own Mayflower from a nearby mooring in 1620.

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Perhaps something happened to the Bibles which went to your country with the Pilgrim Fathers since the New Testament expressions of love, forgiveness of sins, charity and general goodness which, in my view with tolerance make up the Christian ethic, seem strange even alien to many in your country who profess belief.

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And so a creation myth arose, of Pilgrim Fathers seeding a new land with their piety and work ethic.

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But the greater part of the worshippers, those whose ancestors like the Pilgrim Fathers had come to these shores to seek freedom before God, responded to their rabbi's call like true soldiers about their standard bearer.

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The old joke that "the Pilgrim Mothers had to endure not alone their hardships but the Pilgrim Fathers also" has been overworked.

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And as the sturdy Pilgrim Fathers cut their perilous way through the dense and dangerous depths of the Forest Primeval for the setting up of their hearthstones, so the courageous pioneers of the desolate and treeless West were forced to fight the fury of the winds.

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Finding these barbarous tribes here, the Pilgrim Fathers bartered with them for peaceable possession, which they did not always secure.

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You think of the Pilgrim Fathers during the tempestuous voyage in the Mayflower.

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In 1620 the Pilgrim Fathers called at Dartmouth with their ships

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The former describes the sailing of the galleon bearing the Pilgrim Fathers to America.

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