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Note: Name: Miles STANDISH Sex: M Birth: ABT. 1584 in Ellenbane, Isle of Man, England Death: 3 OCT 1656 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts Note: Myles Standish started his military career as a drummer, and eventually worked his way up, and into the Low Countries (Holland), where English troops had been stationed to help the Dutch in their war with Spain. It was certanly here that he made acquiantance with the Pilgrims and came into good standing with the Pilgrims pastor John Robinson. Standish was eventually hired by them to be their military captain, over the Pilgrims other option of Captain John Smith (the same man that was rescued by Pocahontas). Captain Standish lead most of the first exploring missions into the wintery surroundings at Cape Cod looking for a place to settle. He was elected military captain, or organized the Pilgrims defenses against the Indians, and potential threats from the French. In 1622 he led an expedition to save the remaining members of the Wessagussett Colony and killed several Indian sagamores, who had led the plot to kill all the Englishmen at that Colony. In 1625 he made a successful trip to England tonegotiate for supplies and for the right of the colony to own its own land. A few years later he and his fellow colonist John Alden founded the town of Duxbury, Massachusetts, named for the Standish ancestral home in Lancashire. Standish was a magistrate in Duxbury for the rest of his life and also served (1644-49) as the colony's treasurer and on its governing council for 29 years. He was the subject of the famous but fictional poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow entitled The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858), in which Standish, reluctant to ask Priscilla Mullens for her hand, sends John Alden to act as intermediary. Standish befriended an Indian named Hobomok, just as Bradford befriended Squanto, and the two lived out their lives very close to one another. Hobomok was a warrior for Massasoit, and the two "military men" probably understood one another better than most. A chair and a sword owned by Myles Standish are preserved in the Pilgrim Hall Museum, Plymouth, MA. Father: John STANDISH b: 1557 in Ellenbane, Isle of Man, England Mother: Christian, KATHERINE, Lace b. 1561 in Ellenbane, Isle of Man, England Marriage 1 Rose HANELY b: 1588 in IIsle of Man, England Married abt 1610/11, prob, England Children 1. Thomas Standish Marriage 2 Barbara MULLINS b: ABT. 1588 Married: BEF. 1624 Children 1. Alexander STANDISH b: 1616 2. Miles STANDISH b: ABT. 1630 3. Josiah STANDISH b: 1633 Marriage 3 Mehitable NOWELL b: 2 FEB 1636/37
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