 | Walter F. Wheeler, Union news company - Plymouth (Mass.) - 1921 - 120 pages
...unaccommodate condition brought upon them, so that there die sometimes 2 or 3 a day. Of 100 persons scarce 50 remaining, the living scarce able to bury the dead;...there being in their time of greatest distress, but 6 or 7, who spare no pains to help them." Cole's Hill Burials were many on Cole's Hill, near the Rock,... | |
 | John Kennedy Lacock - Boston (Mass.) - 1923 - 148 pages
...voyage and unaccommodate condition brought upon them, so as there die sometimes two or three a day. Of a hundred persons scarce fifty remaining; the living...but six or seven who spare no pains to help them." The graves were levelled, and in the ensuing spring grain was planted above them in order to conceal... | |
 | Melvin Everett Haggerty - American literature - 1927 - 586 pages
...winter : " In three months past dies half of our company ; the greatest part in the depth of winter ; the living scarce able to bury the dead ; the well not sufficient to tend the sick." In spite of all this, not one of the colonists went with the Mayflower on its return journey, begun... | |
 | Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants Staff - History - 1996 - 274 pages
...Condition brought upon them: so as there Die sometimes 2 or 3 a Day : of 100 Persons scarce 50 remain : the Living scarce able to Bury the Dead : The Well not sufficient to tend the Sick: [p. 104] there being in their time of greatest Distress but 6 or 7, who spare no Pains to help them:... | |
 | 1868 - 1108 pages
...long Voyage and unacommodate Condition brought upon them, so as there Die sometimes 2 or 3 a Day ; the Living scarce able to Bury the Dead, the Well...there being in their time of greatest Distress but 6 or 7 [able to help others] who spare no Pains to help them, and of which 7 were Mr. Brewster their... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - Massachusetts - 1891 - 408 pages
...Winslow's and Bradford's wives had died. Bradford's entry is, "Of a hundred persons, scarce fifty remain. The living scarce able to bury the dead, the well...sufficient to tend the sick, there being, in their time ' I p I 3 of greatest distress, but six or seven, who spared no pains to help them. Two of the seven... | |
 | Nahum Gale - History - 1857 - 372 pages
...brought upon them ; so as there die, sometimes two or three a day. Of a hundred, scarce fifty remain ; the living scarce able to bury the dead ; the well not sufficient to tend the sick ; there being in time of greatest distress " (probably the last days of February,) " but six or seven, who spare no... | |
 | Great Britain - 1920 - 950 pages
...them, so as they die sometimes two or three a day, and of one hundred persons scarce fifty remain ; the living scarce able to bury the dead ; the well not sufficient to tend the sick.' Small wonder that with a sense of trials overcome the Pilgrim Mothers called their infants by such... | |
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Of a hundred persons scarce fifty remain ; the living scarce able to bury the dead ; the well not sufficient to tend the sick, there being, in their time of greatest distress, but six or seven, who spare no pains to help them. 
