Contents

Title Page

Copyright Notice

List of Illustrations

List of Maps

Prologue: 1676

I: Droitwich

II: Leiden

III: Leaving Holland

IV: The Voyage

V: Land

VI: Massasoit

VII: The Building of ‘Our Town’

VIII: Good Farms

IX: Massachusetts Begins

X: The Pequot War

XI: The Pan-Indian Conspiracy

XII: Leaving for London, 1646

XIII: Republican England

XIV: Hercules

XV: Generational Change

XVI: The Coming of War

XVII: King Philip’s War

XVIII: Penelope Alone: the widow’s bed ‘not priced’

XIX: Penelope’s Final Actions

Photographs

Acknowledgements, and a note about the book and its sources

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Also by Rebecca Fraser

About the Author

Copyright