From the Burial Hill cemetery in Plymouth, we went to the Jabez Howland House, which is the only house left in Plymouth where Pilgrims actually lived. The Howlands were God-fearing Pilgrims; Jabez became a very respected elder in the emigrant church. Their family tree is quite amazing; they had ten children and eighty grandchildren, and there have been two million descendants from them since then until now, including numerous well-known people like Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, Gerald Ford, George Bush, Sarah Palin, etc. The tour of their home was fascinating (first picture).
From there, we went to the Plimouth Plantation, which provides numerous insights into the lives of the Pilgrims who were the first English people to settle in the early Plymouth colony. Native Americans play a variety of roles on the plantation and freely answer questions asked. In one home, we found an old copy of William Perkins’s “Golden Chaine” of salvation (second picture).
