The Memorial to the Pilgrim Women
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On the corner of North Street and the Water side, not far from Plymouth Rock, is a small park enclosed by hedges of box and privet; in the center against a background of lilac trees, a tall granite fountain supports on the front, a standing figure representing a Pilgrim woman.
Capable, courageous and devoted, steadfast in her faith and to her duties though a life-long exile from the home of her birth, through dangers and privations she made possible the domestic comfort and the permanence of the Pilgrims’ homes in the wilderness.
On the curb of the pool an inscription reads:
“Erected by the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution In memory of the heroic Women of the Mayflower 1620–1920”
and on the back of the fountain:
“They brought up their families in sturdy virtue and a living faith in God without which nations perish.”
On the shaft is given the names of the women who came in the Mayflower.
“Mary Norris Allerton
Mary Allerton
Remember Allerton
Eleanor Billington
Mary Brewster
—— Chilton
Mary Chilton
Sarah Eaton
Susannah Fuller White
Dorothy Bradford
Katherine Carver
Maid servant of the Carvers,
name unknown
Humility Cooper
—— Martin
—— Fuller
Elizabeth Hopkins
Constance Hopkins
Damaris Hopkins
Alice Mullens
Priscilla Mullens
Elizabeth Tilley
—— Tilley
Desire Minter
Ellen Moore
Alice Rigdale
Rose Standish
Ann Tilley
—— Tinker
Elizabeth Winslow”
