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Standish, Myles
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Standish, Myles

(born c. 1584, Lancashire, Eng.—died Oct. 3, 1656, Duxbury, Mass.) British-American colonist. He fought in the Netherlands, where he met the Pilgrims, with whom he later sailed to North America on the Mayflower (1620). As the Plymouth colony's military leader, he led several expeditions against hostile Indian tribes. He served as the colony's assistant governor and treasurer (1644–49). There is no historical evidence for the story that he asked John Alden to propose marriage for him to Priscilla Mullins, as mythologized in Henry W. Longfellow's poem The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858).
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Quail stocking: three times a week on the Myles Standish Wildlife Management Area in Plymouth and the Crane Wildlife Management area, Hayway Road in Falmouth.
Pheasant season begins tomorrow by Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
1620: The 101 Pilgrim Fathers set sail from Plymouth in the Mayflower, captained by Myles Standish.
Onthisday by Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
1620: The "Pilgrim Fathers" set sail from Plymouth in the Mayflower, captained by Myles Standish - by no means all the passengers were Puritans, many being planters, indentured servants or craftsmen.
ON THIS DAY IN .. by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
 
 
 
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