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Excerpt from The Government and Laws of New Hampshire Before the Establishment of the Province, 1623 1679: A Monograph Constituting the Introduction to the First Volume of the Province Laws
'the present generation is now separated from the period in which the Pilgrim Fathers were living by about two hundred years, and from their immigration by about two hundred and eighty years. Mary Allerton, the last survivor of the May?ower immigrants, daughter of Isaac Allerton, and Wife of Elder Thomas Cushman, died in 1699. Appleton's Encyc. Of Biog., vol. 2, p. 43. Hon. Alfred Russell, in an essay in the Michigan Presbyterian for April 16, 1903, remarks that his eminent friend, Sidney Bartlett, of the Bos ton bar, recently deceased at a great age, in his youth, at his birthplace, Ply mouth, Mass., conversed with those who in their youth had conversed with those who were Pilgrims on the May?ower. Mr. Bartlett was born Febru ary 13, 1799, and died March 6, 1889.
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