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  Myles Standish - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Myles Standish is often remembered for his bravery in battle and his reputation as the military captain of the Pilgrims, as well as a character in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's fictitious poem The Courtship of Miles Standish.
The township of Standish was of importance during the Roman occupation of Britain, and the Standish family is known to have been there since the Norman Conquest.
Standish was also the treasurer of the Colony of Duxbary from the year 1644 to 1649, which was named after the original Standish estate in Chorley, England.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Miles_Standish   (1303 words)

  
 Myles Standish Summary
Miles Standish is often remembered for his bravery in battle and his reputation as the military captain of the Pilgrims.
Standish can be considered the Harry Hotspur of the Pilgrim band: a man whom it was easy to make fun of, but one whom his friends knew how to value, and whom even they who scoffed at him would have been glad to call their own.
Miles Standish was also the treasurer of the Colony of Duxbary from the year 1644 to 1649, which was named after the original Standish estate in Chorley, England.
www.bookrags.com /Myles_Standish   (1707 words)

  
 Miles Standish - LoveToKnow 1911
In 1631 with William Brewster and others he settled at Duxbury, where he died on the 3rd of October 1656, and where on "Captain's Hill," near the site of his home, there is a monument to him, consisting of a stone shaft, 110 ft. high, and a bronze statue of him.
Longfellow's Courtship of Miles Standish apparently has no basis in fact; Standish's second wife, Barbara, a sister of Rose, must have been summoned to Plymouth a year before the marriage of John Alden to Priscilla Mullins.
Tudor Jenks's Captain Myles Standish (New York, 1905) and Henry Johnson's Exploits of Myles Standish (New York, 1897) are popular sketches.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Miles_Standish   (144 words)

  
 Standish, Miles - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
After serving as a soldier for a number of years, Standish accompanied the Pilgrims to America on the Mayflower (1620) and was recognized at once as the military leader of Plymouth Colony.
Standish was treasurer of the colony (1644-49), held other posts, and was a founder of Duxbury, Mass.
Henry W. Longfellow's The Courtship of Miles Standish and James R. Lowell's Interview with Miles Standish are wholly fictional.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-standish.html   (360 words)

  
 The Standish Homepage : Welcome   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Standish is a small township just north of Wigan, in the north-west of England, UK.
Although Captain Myles Standish of the Mayflower did not originate in Standish, the history of his ancestors, the Standish family, Standish Hall and the village are intertwined.
Standish has also seen the industrial revolution bring mining and textiles to the area, although these are now gone again as the information revolution has replaced older industries with a wide variety of other jobs.
www.standish.org.uk   (466 words)

  
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A salute was fired, and after that the "guest of the colony" went back with Standish and Squantum to the town, where, in a house especially fitted up for his reception with cushions and a green carpet, the governor met the chieftain and concluded that treaty of peace and friendship of which I have spoken.
Probably the "moral influence" of Captain Miles Standish and his "thunder-making" muskets counted for considerable with Massasoit, for these were present at the making of the treaty.
Standish, for we read that the fifth wedding in the colony was that of Captain Miles Standish and "a lady named Barbara," said to have been a sister of his wife Rose.
brocktonmagenealogy.tripod.com /search/standish.html   (2451 words)

  
 Charles Crouter Family Tree-Uncle Miles Standish   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
A story of the wooing of Priscilla Mullins is told by the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in 'The Courtship of Miles Standish' (1858).
Standish served as treasurer of the colony (1644-49).
Miles Standish had a son named Josiah who had a son named Israel who had a daughter named Prudence.
www.crouter.com /Crouter_Family_Tree/CCFT-Standish.htm   (365 words)

  
 Descendants - pafg83.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Deborah WESTON (Sarah STANDISH, Miles STANDISH, Sarah ALDEN, John) was born on 28 Aug 1743 in Duxbury, MA.
Miles STANDISH was born on 8 Aug 1782 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, MA, USA.
Miles COBB was born on 23 Oct 1764 in of Plympton, Plymouth, MA, USA.
www.alden.org /aldengen/pafg83.htm   (1748 words)

  
 Miles Standish - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth : poetry : The Courtship of Miles Standish: Alden, John
He went to America on the Mayflower in 1620 and was a signer of the...
Coverdale, Miles (1488?-1569), English translator of the Bible, born in Yorkshire, and educated at the University of Cambridge.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Standish,   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
He came to America on the Mayflower and was prominent as assistant to the governor of the colony.
He moved (c.1627) to Duxbury and there was neighbor and friend of Miles Standish.
Standish James O'Grady: between imperial romance and Irish Revival *.
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 Myles Standish
G.V.C. Young has suggested Myles Standish's great-grandfather was Huan Standish of the Isle of Man. However, recent research has tended to undermine this conclusion, and new discoveries are currently being made which could very well disprove the Isle of Man origins altogether.
Myles Standish started his military career as a drummer, and eventually worked his way up and into the Low Countries (Holland), where English troops under Heratio Vere had been stationed to help the Dutch in their war with Spain.
Standish befriended an Indian named Hobomok, just as Bradford befriended Squanto, and the two lived out their lives very close to one another.
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 miles - Search Results - MSN Encarta
- unit of measurement comparable to mile: a unit of...
a long way, a great distance, miles and miles, miles away, a long way away, a long way off
Davis, Miles (1926-1991), American trumpet player and bandleader, one of the most innovative, influential, and respected figures in the history of...
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 standish - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Standish, Miles (1584?-1656), American colonist, born in Lancashire, England.
O’Grady, Standish James (1846-1928), Irish man of letters, credited with beginning the Irish literary renaissance, born in Castletown Bearhaven....
Saint Joseph’s College (Maine), private, coeducational institution in Standish, Maine, about 24 km (about 15 mi) northwest of Portland.
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 STANDISH, MILES, or MY... - Online Information article about STANDISH, MILES, or MY...
Standish apparently has no basis in fact; Standish's second wife, See also:
Lowell's Interview with Miles Standish misrepresents him: he was not a typical Puritan.
Johnson's Exploits of Myles Standish (New York, 1897) are popular sketches.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /SOU_STE/STANDISH_MILES_or_MYLES_c_1584_.html   (511 words)

  
 John Van Ness Standish
The Standish family was descended from the Standishes of Duxbury Hall.
Miles Standish was born in Duxbury Hall in 1854 and was to become the leader of the Pilgrims move to America.
Standish was a horticulturist, to use the term in his biography.
www.thezephyr.com /backtrack/standish.htm   (1049 words)

  
 The Courtship of Miles Standish Summary - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Miles Standish was a gruff captain of the soldiers, whose wife had died after the landing of the Mayflower the previous fall.
One night, Standish dropped his copy of Caesar’s Commentaries and turned to John, who was writing a letter in which he praised Priscilla, one of the young women of the colony.
Standish spoke of the loneliness and weariness of his life, and of the fact that Priscilla, too, was living alone, her parents having died during the winter.
www.enotes.com /salem-lit/courtship-miles-standish-9560000153   (182 words)

  
 Maine Local Government - Town of Standish - Main Page
Standish is a town in Cumberland County, settled in 1750 and incorporated on November 30, 1785 from Pearsontown Plantation.
Named in honor of Captain Miles Standish, the military leader of the Plymouth Colony, the town has a very long shoreline on Sebago Lake in its southwest corner, including its Lower Bay.
Both a recreational area and suburb of Portland, the town is served by Maine Routes 11, 25, 25A, 35, 35A, 114 and 237.
www.maine.gov /local/cumberland/standish   (106 words)

  
 The Courtship of Miles Standish Summary
Miles Standish, a soldier and protector of the colony
On a spring afternoon in 1621, Captain Miles Standish, a short, powerfully-built man of middle age and a recent widower, stood in his house, surveying with pride his well-polished weapons of war.
When word of this feat, accompanied by the head of one of the braves, was carried back to Plymouth, all rejoiced; but Priscilla wondered silently if such a hero might expect to claim her upon his return.
www.awerty.com /courtshiphtml2.html   (1613 words)

  
 Myles Standish State Forest, a Massachusetts State Park near Bridgewater, Brockton, Brookline, Carver, Centerville
MSSF offers five camping areas, tucked into the forest or set along the edges of four of the park's 16 ponds.All are beautifully maintained and a sectionof the Charge Pond area is set aside specifically for horse camping.
Fifteen miles of bicycle trails, 35 miles of equestrian trails and 13 miles of hiking trails take visitors deep into the forest, which includes one of the largest contiguous pitch pine/scrub oak communities north of Long Island.
Centerville Corners Inn - Located 1/2 mile from Craigville Beach, we have central air/heat, are pet friendly, have an indoor pool, serve a deluxe continental breakfast and and all of are rooms were renovated in 2003.
www.stateparks.com /myles_standish.html   (538 words)

  
 Standish Monument   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The statue of Myles Standish, fourteen feet high, was the work of S.J. O'Kelly of Boston.
The Standish Monument Association gave the monument and surrounding area to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1920.
Now known as the Standish Monument Reservation, it is administered by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Management.
www.duxburysails.com /infop/stand.html   (370 words)

  
 Bitter Winter, Better Thanksgiving, the story of Miles Standish - Christian Articles Archive
Miles Standish had been much at his wife Rose's bedside.
As much time, that is, as he could spare from stalking game, guarding against savages, and felling trees to construct crude homes on shore.
The golden dreams of a New World that Miles and Rose had cherished together had evaporated into hollow hopes.
www.joyfulheart.com /thanksgiving/standish.htm   (454 words)

  
 Standish History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
With 800 years of history to collect, from Radulphus de Stanedis and his many descendants (including the Mayflower's famous Captain Myles Standish), to the towns industrial heritage, this website aims to be a collection point for contributors to build a comprehensive database of the history of the township.
The site so far lists over 100 events in the history of Standish, with a growing database of articles about historical events sent to us by contributors and visitors alike, and links to a forum to discuss the event.
It is thirty years since the fruits of the labours of the Standish Local History Group started to come out, in the form of several books about a range of subjects such as histories of The Standish Family, St. Wilfrid's Church and Schools in Standish.
www.standish-history.org.uk   (406 words)

  
 Amazon.com: "Miles Standish": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Courtship of Miles Standish by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Courtship of Miles Standish I MILES STANDISH In the Old Colony days, in Plymouth the land of the Pilgrims,...
164 THE COURTSHIP OF MILES STANDISH To the regions of the home-wind, Of the Northwest-Wind, Keewaydin.
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 Blue & White Staffordshire Souvenir Plate Miles Standish - RL-401
Miles Standish, the hero of New England,came over on the Mayflower with the Pilgrims.
Miles Standish was very serviceable to the English when the Indians showed signs of hostility and they relied much upon his military skill and personal bravery.
Standish had the wisdom to check his resentment, but the next day, when the chief and a great number of his followers were in a room with the white people, the captain gave a signal, and five of the savages were killed.
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 Amazon.ca: Miles Standish: Books: Susan Martins Miller,Arthur Meier, Jr. Schlesinger   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The story of "Miles Standish: Plymouth Colony Leader" is really the story of the Pilgrims from more of a military perspective.
After all, Standish was the Colony's military leader, one of the "Strangers" who was never one of the "Saints," as the Pilgrims called themselves.
In fact, Standish became the only leader of the Plymouth Colony who never joined the Pilgrim church.
www.amazon.ca /Miles-Standish-Susan-Martins-Miller/dp/0791056937   (324 words)

  
 Standish History - 1620   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
One hundred and one persons came ashore, but by Christmas 1620 there were so many sick or dead that only about half-a-dozen were left capable of self-help.
A later account says that all this was done 'without any growling in the least' by 'William Brewster, their Reverend Elder, and Myles Standish, their Captain and military commander'.
As late as 1653 he was called upon, at the age of 70, to command the fighting volunteers of the colony against a threatened Dutch invasion.
www.standish-history.org.uk /history.php?year=1620   (341 words)

  
 Standish - Minneapolis Neighborhood Profile
The Standish neighborhood on Minneapolis’ south side, is bound on the north by 36th Street, on the east by Hiawatha Avenue, on the south by 42
This neighborhood was named after an area elementary school, which had been called Miles Standish after a work by the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
The area was considered the outskirts of the city until immigrants, mostly Swedish and Norwegian, began building their homes here early in the 1900s.
www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us /neighborhoods/standish_profile_home.asp   (158 words)

  
 Miles Standish State Forest
If you want any kind of off-road technicalities don't come here...lots of soft sand, pine needles and pavement...fun for an hour...have fun as the "Enviromental Police" chase you down the fire roads.
Follow road for about 3 miles, then take right, it's the 4 right you'll see on that road, you will see signs for the state forest.
Many miles of fire access roads, that range from hard packed sand, to beach sand consistancy.
www.mtbr.com /trails/Massachusetts/MilesStandishStateForest.html   (372 words)

  
 The Courtship of Miles Standish - Moviefone
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movies.aol.com /movie/the-courtship-of-miles-standish/1055683/main   (154 words)

  
 Miles Standish Family (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Standish, among the more well known of the Mayflower passengers -- perhaps due to Longfellow's fictitious poem "The Courtship of Miles Standish -- was by some accounts of short stature and of feisty temperament.
Nonetheless, he served the fledgling colony with great fidelity and was consistently called upon for service.
Bradford's Passenger List: "Captain Standish his wife dyed in the first sicknes; and he maried againe,.4.
www.mayflowerfamilies.com.cob-web.org:8888 /mayflower/miles_standish_family.htm   (223 words)

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