![]() What was a woman’s life like in the Plymouth Colony? The Last Pilgrim will tell you. The Last Pilgrim begins from her father’s point of view – she was, after all, only four when she descended into the cramped and dank living space below deck on the Mayflower – but gradually assumes Mary’s voice, as the colony achieves a foothold in the New England’s rocky soil. ![]() Mary’s life is set against the real background of that time. Mary Allerton Cushman was the last surviving passenger of the Mayflower, dying at age 88 in 1699. The Plymouth Colony would not have survived without them. ![]() This book captures and celebrates the grit and struggle of the Pilgrim women who stepped off the Mayflower in the winter of 1620 to an unknown world – one filled with hardship, danger and death. ![]()
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