1870 PILGRIMS SETTLE NEW ENGLAND. Unpublished MSs Poem by Presbtyerian, M. A. Depue. Evangelical and I suppose this is

and I suppose this is tooting his "Horn" just a bit

infants/younger children were sent to rural districts in an attempt to protect them from industrial pollution

or he would likely not have been teaching at the College they ran together

Really lovely little gem

1870 PILGRIMS SETTLE NEW ENGLAND. Unpublished MSs Poem by Presbtyerian, M. A. Depue. Evangelical and I suppose this isA fine five stranza unpublished manuscript poem on the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth in 1620. Written by Presbyterian divine, M. A. Depue [d. 1872], it seems likely to have been composed in 1870 as part of a Sesquicentennial celebration of the arrival of the Mayflower. Depue himself was a prominent Presbyterian who exercised his ministry during the Civil War, seemingly as a chaplain, and was then Assistant to the eminent John Gray at New