BETTY ALDEN
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THE FIRST-BORN DAUGHTER OF THE PILGRIMS
BY
JANE G. AUSTIN
AUTHOR OF “STANDISH OF STANDISH,” “A NAMELESS NOBLEMAN,” “DR. LE BARON AND HIS DAUGHTERS,” “THE DESMOND HUNDRED,” “NANTUCKET SCRAPS,” ETC.
BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY The Riverside Press, Cambridge 1891
Copyright, 1891, By JANE G. AUSTIN
All rights reserved.
The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A. Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Co.
TO
MY DEAR COUSINS
MARSTON AND MARY WATSON
AND THEIR
HILLSIDE
WHERE BETTY ALDEN HAS BEEN SO PLEASANTLY CRADLED
DURING THE PAST YEAR
This Story of her Life and Times
IS AFFECTIONATELY
DEDICATED
Plymouth Michaelmas, 1891