Evening star., 1911-08-11

took up and the house he built north OF
Plymouth. Standish Hall. the seat OF
his ancestors is still standing and is a
fine old place 1t is filled with portraits
of his Roman Catholic ancestors in
armor. ruffs and pointed boards Al
though he never made any claim to the
estate. at his death and in his wild he
declared his son Alexander heir ap-
parent by lawful descent in Ormistic
Bousconge. Wilmington. Maudsley. New
burrow, Cranston and the Isle or Man,
given to me as right heir by lawful de-
scent, but surreptitiously detained from
me- my great grandfather being second
or younger brother in the House of Stan
dish" There is no explanation of the
reasons which led this brave knight of
noble name to reinquish his position and
prospects to accompany a band Of re-
ligious fanatics, with whose doctrines ne
could have had no sympathy, across an
unknown ocean into an unknown world.
But he had no share In their theological
doctrines. He was their fighting man,
their chief of police or man-at-arms.
Some of the descendants OF Capt. STAN
| dish once investigated the legal situation
| of the estate, which is of immense value
and yields an income of more than half
| a million dollars annually, and were con-
vinced that the present owners held IT
under fraudulent title, but the evidence
has been destroyed by obliterating rec
| ords of births and deaths and marriages
| in the parish church.
Left No Property Of Value.
When standish died he left no prop
| erty but this little unproductive farm on
| Captains hill, three Bibles. three mus
| kets, four carbines, cutlass and the
| sword that he carried in Flanders.
There are seven different Duxburys.
North. East. West and South, DuXbury
] Station Duxbury Beach and plain Dux-
hrrv Of will I'm
| the neighborhood belong to the town.
| The village of Kingston was the home of
| Mai John Bradford, where for many
years was kept that famous manuscript,
THE Bradford History of Plymouth
| Plantations, the most important and
practically the only complete record Of
| the early doings of the Pilgrims. In IT'S
Maj. John Bradford, then the head of the
| family. loaned the manuscript to ThomaS S
| Prince. to be used in preparing .chro-
| nology of the colony. and the latter IN
| trusted il to Gov. Hutchinson who is be-
lieved to have carried it back with him to
been lost until 1855, when it was acci-
dentally discovered in the library Of the
Bishop Of London. How II came there
nobody knows. Repeated attempts were
flower" as it is familiarly called. but
none was successful until Thomas +.
Bayard. our ambassador to Great Brit
ain, persuaded his lordship to surrender
II, ana, In 1891, the precious document,
the most valuable of all manuscripts or
books relating to America. was brought
back to Boston with proper ceremony
and placed In the custody of the general
court of the commonwealth of Massachu-
setts to which 1t now belongs. 1t may be
seen in the state house library.
The French Atlantic cable from Brest
lands on Duxbury beach. which is a long
stretch of sand shaped like a sickle, with
Gurnet lighthouse at the point and with
in the crook is Clarks Island. the second
landing place of the Pilgrims
While the Mayflower lay at anchor in
the harbor Of Provincetown, eighteen OF
the men, including Bradford, Winslow,
Carver and Miles Standish, under the
leadership of John Clark. the mate, start
ed on an exploration i'll a little sloop-
rugged shallop of fifteen tons. They
cru.sed around the coast, found excellent
timber. copious springs and plenty of
wild fowl. which proved to be their sal
vation in the wilderness. They had their
first encounter with the Indians and ran
into gale which carried away their
mast and sail and compelled them to
take refuge on an island which was
named In honor of their leader. Mate
Clark. 1t was a terrible experience and
II men ever needed rest they did. and
took it on the first Sabbath day. The