To Elizabeth Burton,
Hello, Elizabeth. The Mayflower set sail on the sixth of September. It has been almost a month. I keep overhearing the adults talking about things. So many people are going missing, and Father says that they are simply passing on. Mother says the same thing to me, but I still do not understand. I heard Mrs. Edward Fuller saying that Mr. Degory Priest passed this morning and they simply threw him off the ship. He was a sick man, and they threw him overboard. I never understood how they could throw poor, sick people off of the ship, but they had said it was not important why just that it happens sometimes. It all feels so curious. They all talk about it, but never when the children are around like it is a sin to do so. It feels strange knowing that this is the kind of world that we live in, is it not, My Dearest Friend?
~Your friend, Martha Billington. (Age 13 (1620))
(Martha Billington, Mrs. Edward Fuller, and Mr. Degory Priest were all passengers on the Mayflower)
YOU ARE READING
LETTERS OF THE MAYFLOWER
Historical FictionSo, I had an assignment for my English class, and I had to write a narritive based on a prompt for a scholarship. I picked the Washington Society of Mayflower Descendants scholarship, and I had to write a letter in the perspective of a peasent on th...
