CHAPTER XVIII.

PLYMOUTH, CLARK'S ISLAND, AND DUXBURY.

Let us walk in Leyden Street.--The way Plymouth was built.--Governor Bradford's Corner.--Fragments of Family History.--How Marriage became a civil Act.--The Common-house.--John Oldham's Punishment.--The Allyne House.--James Otis and his Sister Mercy.--James Warren.--Cole's Hill, and its obliterated Graves.--Plymouth Rock.--True Date of the "Landing."--Christmas in Plymouth, and Bradford's Joke.--Pilgrim Toleration.--Samoset surprises Plymouth.--The Entry of Massasoit.--First American Congress.--To Clark's Island.--Watson's House.--Election Rock.--The Party of Discovery.--Duxbury.--Captains Hill and Miles Standish.--John Alden.--"Why don't you speak for yourself?"--Historical Iconoclasts.--Celebrities of Duxbury.--Winslow and Acadia.--Colonel Church.--The Dartmouth Indians 283