Mary Chilton's Challenge - Battles, James B
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Mary Chilton was the first Pilgrim to step on Plymouth Rock. The First Step tells the story of Mary Chilton Winslow who along with her parents came to the new world aboard the Mayflower and settled in Plimoth Planation. Mary tells how and why she and her parents left Leiden in the Netherlands to settle in the new world and of her experiences in the early days of Plimoth Plantation including being the first person on Plimoth Rock and participating in the First Thanksgiving. With the death of both her parents, Mary at 13 had to make her own way in the wilderness that was America in 1620. She was…mehr

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Mary Chilton was the first Pilgrim to step on Plymouth Rock. The First Step tells the story of Mary Chilton Winslow who along with her parents came to the new world aboard the Mayflower and settled in Plimoth Planation. Mary tells how and why she and her parents left Leiden in the Netherlands to settle in the new world and of her experiences in the early days of Plimoth Plantation including being the first person on Plimoth Rock and participating in the First Thanksgiving. With the death of both her parents, Mary at 13 had to make her own way in the wilderness that was America in 1620. She was able to build her life in the new world and could well be considered one of our founding mothers. Mary is played as she would have been in the year 1671, a grandmother, at age 64 and living in Boston 50 years after her arrival on the Mayflower.
Autorenporträt
James Bruce Battles is a native of Ohio. He was born in Ashtabula, Ohio in an area known as the Western Reserve of Connecticut in Saybrook Township Ohio. He did is undergraduate work at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and was commissioned an Ensign in the United States Navy. He served four years on active duty during the Viet Nam War. After completing active duty, he pursued graduate studies obtaining a Ph.D. at The Ohio State University. Dr. Battles pursued a career in medical education and was a professor of Biomedical Communications and Medical Education at the University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas Texas. He continued to serve in the Naval Reserve obtaining the rank of Captain before retiring. His reserve unit was recalled during Desert Strom, Gulf War I. Since his retirement Dr. Battles has concentrated on geology and family history. He has written a number of books on his and his wife's, Carolyn Elliott Battles' families. He is active in the Society of Mayflower Descendants and has established the Mayflower Guard a ceremonial color guard dressed and armed as the Pilgrims would have been in 1620-1621. He is also active in the Sons of the American Revolution and has 12 documented patriot ancestors who served in the Revolutionary War and has written about these ancestors.