William Bradford

the taking away of private property, and the possession of it in community, by a commonwealth ... was found to breed much confusion and discontent

Thus out of small beginnings greater things have been produced by His hand that made all things of nothing, and gives being to all things that are; and, as one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto …

Behold, now, another providence of God. A ship comes into the harbor.

Cold comfort to fill their hungry stomach.

But it pleased God to visit us then with death daily, and with so general a disease that the living were scarce able to bury the dead.

The loss of...honest and industrious men's lives cannot be valued at any price.

Our fathers were Englishmen which came over this great ocean, and were ready to perish in this wilderness.

Being thus arrived in a good harbor, and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of Heaven who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean, and delivered them from all the perils and miseries thereof, …